Women’s Test likely casualty of footy fatigue in Las Vegas

ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys concedes that four games of football at Allegiant Stadium was one too many, with the women’s game likely to be the casualty for Vegas 3.0.

A crowd of 45,209 attended the quadruple-header, almost 5000 more fans than the previous year. However, supporters suffering from footy fatigue started leaving during the Jilaroos-England blowout, resulting in tens of thousands of empty seats for Penrith’s win over Cronulla.

“Four games was probably too much,” V’landys said. “We’ll probably go back to three games [in 2026].

“I think four was too long – you could tell because the fans left their seats – so when their game was over there were empty seats.

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