AB Knight

6497 at Cas-Wigan. Disappointing crowd in my opinion.

So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Derek Beaumont? (Just kidding Leigh fans before you all get upset). Seriously: How did the NRL compare to Super League?

That’s a shame, he speaks highly of you, you are ‘best of the bunch.’ Anyway I regret to inform you all our friend from West Yorkshire no longer visits this forum because we ‘don’t get banter.’ Just to clarify, it definitely has absolutely nothing to do with York’s upturn in form and Dewsbury being dreadful. It’s nothing to do with York having the best away record and 4th best home record (compared to worst away record and 12th best home record). Personally I welcome fans from other clubs here, especially clubs based in WF12 who sold just 75 season tickets for this season. Disappearing after giving so much banter is a bit of a ‘wacky’ decision if you ask me.

782 at Sheffield today for the game against York.

Really good win is that, and glad I didn’t touch the handicap offer! Onto our next match against London on Sunday, short turnaround for both teams, can’t be complacent.

Surprising is that. Likewise I couldn’t believe Halifax had a 6 point start last match. Sheffield haven’t lost a home league match all season, and last 5 Sheffield vs York league meetings York have only won 1 of them. Add in missing O’Hagan and I think Sheffield should start slight favourites. Still, my money is staying firmly in my pocket!

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I wonder if Dewsbury will consider a change of coach. Obviously not Danny Ward, he’s on his way to York

I think you’ve missed my point. I’ll simplify it; the last time Bradford scored fewer points against part time opposition (regardless of their own status) was at least 12 years and probably even pre Super League (26 years ago). Not bad to say from reading a few Bulls fans comments York were ‘average.’

Gates are certainly holding up, my friend at the game said not as many KR fans as they usually bring. Still some of the ‘bigger’ crowds to come too (Leeds, Wakefield, Wigan).

Sounded like an incredible defensive effort, you have to go back to March 2019 (vs full time Toulouse) for when Bradford scored less points at home. And it’s probably been decades since Bradford scored less than 6 points at Odsal against a part time team (I gave up looking when I got as far back as 2009!). Huge game next week. Both Knights sides deserve a big crowd.

2451 at Barrow.

8175 at Castleford today.

It’s a shame. York City Knights are a good example, they were giving attendances which were holding up well then last 2 home matches have decided not to bother. Just to make it more annoying, Scarborough Athletic FC, recently of step 7 of the football pyramid, played a Mickey Mouse cup final at York’s stadium last night. 15mins after the match had kicked off they’d announced the crowd and put it on Twitter.

Sounded like a great effort and real committed defence just like in 2019. Just wish more would come to home games - next home match is Halifax who are doing well themselves and usually bring good support, our last home match against them (in 2019) was 2101. No reason why we shouldn’t break 2500.

Good win. Bit of a break now until the next game.

I believe the attendance at Barrow-York is 2260.

Surprised Skybet are still giving Barrow +14, think it will be a lot closer.

Good player at this level although he’s been out for the last 3 matches (all of which York have won with an aggregate of 112-36). Will be interesting to see if he plays. Either way I think it will be a close game with just a few scores in it.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s match, should be a close game. For once the weather looks ok up there, although there’s a bit of a ‘cool’ breeze coming up from down South

It’s a great watch, reminds me of rugby league raw.

7649 at Cas

9372 at Cas today

Like I said I don’t know what it’s about, I don’t know the reasons all I am going by is a comment made from a Knights official on Facebook.

I’m actually very positive about the figures. Our last 3 attendances against Newcastle were 1221 earlier this season in the cup, 1212 in 2018 (at Bootham Crescent) and 1181 in 2017 (also at Bootham). If we go with 1750 for Saturdays game, our league average this year is 2227. The last full season average was 2125 (before COVID etc). I think we’ll break 2500 average this season, so a near 20% increase, while not something to write home about, shows steady progress which is what the Knights seem to aim for on and off the pitch. Overall though while I’m not too concerned about crowds I just feel as a club we need to work harder. As usual I’m reluctant to criticise and I don’t know how restricted the club are by the stadium management company but the match day experience needs a lot of work. At Bootham we had bands playing, entertainers, cheerleaders, zones set up for the kids. At the LNER it’s half an hour of music then an 80 minute match, the match itself is pretty decent atm but more work needs to be put into making match day an event.