In a rare stroke of good fortune, Cronulla are hopeful a scheduling quirk and some good weather will hand them a bumper crowd for Friday's NRL fixture against Brisbane at Toyota Stadium.

The Sharks have been dogged by rain-affected games in the past few years which saw their average home crowd shrink to an NRL worst of 10,551 last season.

But the promise of hosting Brisbane, Queensland and Australia captain Darren Lockyer's last regular season club game in Sydney looks set to boost their already promising attendance numbers, which have lifted to 12,752 a game in 2011.

Due to a scheduling oddity Lockyer, who will retire at the end of the season, will not play a club game in Sydney again unless the Broncos travel south for a finals match.

The 34-year-old will miss Brisbane's round 17 match at Parramatta Stadium as he will be in camp with Queensland for his final State of Origin match, while in round 16 South Sydney have taken their home clash with Brisbane across to Perth.

The Sharks confirmed they will seek to honour Lockyer on Friday night.

"It is an away captain, but he's also the Australian captain so we'll definitely give him the dues that he deserves," Peter Beaumont, Cronulla's general manager commercial, told AAP.

"I just hope it gets a few of the general rugby league fans in Sydney to come out and get to the ground.

"It's a pretty big game for Darren, he'll probably be back for the semi-finals but it is his last away game in Sydney."

Lockyer said he had fond memories of playing in Sydney, including winning four grand finals at ANZ Stadium with the Broncos, but admitted it was hard to reflect too much in the middle of his farewell season.

"There's a lot of things I guess that go through your mind (in the last year) but I've said it before, I'm not going to reflect too much about it all until the end of the season," he said.

"I've got some great memories of Sydney and some not so great memories.

"It would be nice to finish down there on a good note (against Cronulla) but there's no guarantees that will happen."

At this stage, the Sharks are also keeping a close eye on the Bureau of Meteorology website with early forecasts for Friday indicating a fine winter evening free of rain.

"Last year was hard, we had a lot of games where it was pretty wet or it had been wet that day, around that decision making moment ... at this stage (Friday) is a fine day," Beaumont added.

"If somebody could keep the rain away that would be fantastic."

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