RWC 2011 MEOC Media End of Match Report
RWC 2011 MEOC Media End of Match
Report
30 September 2011
• Match:
• Samoa v South
Africa
• Venue:
• North Harbour
Stadium
• Match venue attendance:
• Capacity crowd
• Transport:
Transport to and from the South Africa v Samoa
match at North Harbour Stadium ran smoothly this evening
People again heeded advice to allow plenty of travel time to get to the game.
A capacity crowd attended the match with 11,288 people travelling to the game by special event bus and around 11,000 away from the game.
Roads around
the venue were re-opened within 50-55 minutes.
Special
event buses taking fans from the game were cleared within
45-50 mins, with the exception of the CBD buses which were
cleared in 60 mins.
• Fanzones
1. Queen’s Wharf:
• Queens Wharf was
moderately busy during the evening
• Around 6500 peak
crowd at Queens Wharf to watch the match
• No need to
open Captain Cook Wharf
• Good crowd mood reported
throughout the night at both Queens Wharf and North Harbour
Stadium
• Fan Trail
report:
• N/A
• Police report:
• Crowd well behaved at the game, no
evictions or arrests made
• One eviction from Queens
Wharf
• Fire report:
• No
incidents reported re RWC
• St John report:
• Thirteen people attended to at the
Stadium
• One transported to hospital
• Four
people attended to at Queens
Wharf