RLWC Attendance-O-Meter

[Chrispmartha]

5 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

So I'm right then , about 4 K in the LSV 

5006 people paid to watch it.

[GUBRATS]

2 minutes ago, Dave T said:

I'm not sure if you're not following, I agreed with you in my initial post. 

Not necessarily about 4k, I have no idea, but that the numbers announced are not always reflective of the number in the ground. 

I am following Dave , no shows or not , it is actually people in that we want , but I'll leave it here , it was a decent atmosphere , and everybody seemed to enjoy the game 

[GUBRATS]

3 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

5006 people paid to watch it.

Not necessarily if you include the kids holding the flags if they were counted as well 

Yes You're correct , I'm happy for you

[Chrispmartha]

2 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

Not necessarily if you include the kids holding the flags if they were counted as well 

Yes You're correct , I'm happy for you

Im sure you’ll be quite happy counting ticket sales rather than actual attendances next year at the LSV

[Skinnywinger]

Who in the hell thought this game,or any game, would get a crowd in Middlesbrough.

[GUBRATS]

4 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

Im sure you’ll be quite happy counting ticket sales rather than actual attendances next year at the LSV

Hopefully I'll be counting the points The Leopards are in front and the minutes remaining ?

[Tommygilf]

8342 at Middlesbrough 

[Archie Gordon]

A quarter full Riverside is ok.

[OriginalMrC]

16 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

Who in the hell thought this game,or any game, would get a crowd in Middlesbrough.

And yet the attendance was better than a large number of games held at established RL venues 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

2 hours ago, Skinnywinger said:

Lol ill be surprised if even one person has paid 70 quid for a ticket at Huddersfield. More money than sense if they have. I'm going to buy a £25 ticket and knowing the stadium very well I'm pretty confident I'll be able to easily walk straight in to the £70 area unchallenged.

We paid for the South stand at Headingly on Friday....we walked into the North stand.....near enough half way line half way up stand ....not possible at Brammal lane but wil be at the John Smith's that's for sure 

[RigbyLuger]

19 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

Who in the hell thought this game,or any game, would get a crowd in Middlesbrough.

The local council who bid to host a game and the Cook Islands squad.

[OriginalMrC]

3 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

8342 at Middlesbrough 

Thought it might touch 10k. Not bad really, though Tonga vs Wales would likely have done better. 

[Skinnywinger]

4 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said:

And yet the attendance was better than a large number of games held at established RL venues 

Still looks awful in a 30k stadium

Edited October 30, 2022 by Skinnywinger

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

Still looks awful in a 30k stadium

It seems the alternative might be saints or wire in front of 4k, so worked out fine. Even Cumbria would not have got that. 

[Hopping Mad]

2 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

Still looks awful in a 30k stadium

True. If they'd announced 4,000, I wouldn't have been surprised.

[gingerjon]

14 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

8342 at Middlesbrough 

I’m actually impressed.

You know, people might actually like this rugby league thing.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

I’m actually impressed.

You know, people might actually like this rugby league thing.

Hopefully next time they go all 6k stadia for £10 a pop. 

[Guest]

Boro and Newcastle held up their end of the bargain for me. 

[Big Picture]

18 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

8342 at Middlesbrough 

That brings the total so far to 222,712 for an average of 10,123.

[Cowardly Fan]

1 hour ago, Dave T said:

I don't disagree with you, it's why I think it could be tickets sold (and I include those handed out to dancers, freebies etc). 

The reason I say that, is because the Combined Nations XIII game was announced as 9k if you remember, with seats sold out. They weren't. So we do absolutely do this. 

 

Without a doubt it's tickets sold/distributed. As it is for every other sport as far as I'm aware.

[Dave T]

Just now, Cowardly Fan said:

Without a doubt it's tickets sold/distributed. As it is for every other sport as far as I'm aware.

Yes, I think there are some hefty freebies knocking around that are unused which maybe explains big differences. 

We had access to free tickets last week via neices dance school, and it was 5 tickets per kid, with uptake pretty modest. 

[Exiled Wiganer]

Am I right that this is the first World Cup in which the big 3 are all in different groups? 

[OriginalMrC]

20 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

Still looks awful in a 30k stadium

Maybe some kids in that crowd will take up the game. Maybe some of the people attending will tell everyone they know how much fun they had and there'll be a bigger attendance the next time. Alternatively maybe they sat at home and counted empty seats. 

[gingerjon]

5 minutes ago, Cowardly Fan said:

Without a doubt it's tickets sold/distributed. As it is for every other sport as far as I'm aware.

I’ll point out again that this was not the case for the women’s Euros - which is one of the tournaments we are measuring ourselves against.

[Chrispmartha]

5 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said:

Maybe some kids in that crowd will take up the game. Maybe some of the people attending will tell everyone they know how much fun they had and there'll be a bigger attendance the next time. Alternatively maybe they sat at home and counted empty seats. 

Id prefer 8k in a non heartland stadium than the other two crowds today