To be honest, I find all this "we got a bigger crowd than you" stuff somewhat bizarre. To somehow crow or indulge in point scoring that somewhere got a bigger or lower crowd than somewhere else isn't actually achieving anything. For people in Wellington to have a go at people in Auckland, or Dunedin, for not going to games is somewhat hypocritical to say the very least, as crowds at the ROF haven't exactly been scaling the heights this season. If we were getting 12K in Wellington every week then "home" fans would be far more entitled to clamber up onto the moral high ground.
Fact is that this season, no matter where we've played, people haven't shown up in the numbers expected. Given what's been on offer on the pitch it's hardly surprising. "Casual" fans in NZ won't wander up and spend their hard earned cash to watch a bottom of the table team who play dull, unattractive football. Which was us this season. As far as Dunedin goes, I'm sure there were loads of other factors which influenced the size of the crowd.
Next season, they'll have to put a lot of thought into where they play, and once they make that decision they have to market the hell out of the game. It doesn't do Nix supporters anywhere in the country any good to have our team playing in front of ridiculously low crowds.