Attendance thread

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[EggFace]

9 hours ago, Gomersall said:

Any time is always the wrong time for somebody. Maybe we need to dictate to Channel 4 when they can show matches?

I didn't know it was on Channel 4.

[Gomersall]

36 minutes ago, EggFace said:

I didn't know it was on Channel 4.

Yes, hence the early kick off time.

[Sports Prophet]

NRL averaged over 20k per match this year, with 6 clubs averaging above the season average. Dolphins ranked second.

Record season, absolutely smashing the previous best average in 2010 by 3,000 per match, up by approx 18% on that season.

[Damien]

19 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

NRL averaged over 20k per match this year, with 6 clubs averaging above the season average. Dolphins ranked second.

Record season, absolutely smashing the previous best average in 2010 by 3,000 per match, up by approx 18% on that season.

Awesome. I can see the NRL building on that next season too.

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

Hull KR forecasting sell-out of their Wigan allocation, already at 4,000…

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-kr-tickets-wigan-playoff-8797472

On the Wigan forum it seems like they’re expecting a poor turn out of home fans though - a case of familiarity breeding contempt? If they’re saving up for the final then I hope we spoil their over-confident plans!

[WN83]

4 minutes ago, Hull Kingston Bronco said:

Hull KR forecasting sell-out of their Wigan allocation, already at 4,000…

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-kr-tickets-wigan-playoff-8797472

On the Wigan forum it seems like they’re expecting a poor turn out of home fans though - a case of familiarity breeding contempt? If they’re saving up for the final then I hope we spoil their over-confident plans!

It’s been an issue for us for a long time now and it’s so frustrating. I don’t think things look quite as bad for Saturday as some fans are making out because plenty of people won’t have tickets yet (our group who goes to every game haven’t sorted them yet) but we won’t have as many in the home stands as a bog standard league game and that’s so wrong. 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

55 minutes ago, Hull Kingston Bronco said:

Hull KR forecasting sell-out of their Wigan allocation, already at 4,000…

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-kr-tickets-wigan-playoff-8797472

On the Wigan forum it seems like they’re expecting a poor turn out of home fans though - a case of familiarity breeding contempt? If they’re saving up for the final then I hope we spoil their over-confident plans!

Jesus ..."saving up for the final"??.....Old Trafford can't be more than a 45 minute trip can it? 

If Wigan have as rubbish a turn out as fir the Leeds semi last year it will be awful

[Sports Prophet]

12 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

Jesus ..."saving up for the final"??.....Old Trafford can't be more than a 45 minute trip can it? 

If Wigan have as rubbish a turn out as fir the Leeds semi last year it will be awful

On another note…

Jesus… “Saving up for the final”??? How much does one ticket actually cost?

edit note* at the risk of sounding incredibly inconsiderate, are there really that many fans short of an extra £30 - £50 to go to one extra game? 

Edited October 2, 2023 by Sports Prophet

[Josef K]

On 01/10/2023 at 16:47, ATLANTISMAN said:

Agree it was a terrible attendance 

I can’t believe the RFL never agreed with Ch4/Sky in which they had to produce 10,000 cardboard cutouts of spectators. Then they could have been be placed in the empty seats at the matches on tv. The game will never learn. 

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

1 hour ago, WN83 said:

It’s been an issue for us for a long time now and it’s so frustrating. I don’t think things look quite as bad for Saturday as some fans are making out because plenty of people won’t have tickets yet (our group who goes to every game haven’t sorted them yet) but we won’t have as many in the home stands as a bog standard league game and that’s so wrong. 

Yeah, I mean I get why so many Rovers fans are coming and if we're in the play offs for the next few years I wouldn't expect the same number to travel, but I find non-attendance for a home play off semi-final as really weird. It's not like Wigan have won the Grand Final in the last few years, this season is your best shot in ages!

Hopefully it won't be as bad, like you say, it's not like you need to buy far in advance if you're a home fan. Fingers crossed. 

 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

7 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:

On another note…

Jesus… “Saving up for the final”??? How much does one ticket actually cost?

edit note* at the risk of sounding incredibly inconsiderate, are there really that many fans short of an extra £30 - £50 to go to one extra game? 

Fair enough to an extent but if you that sort of money is an issue then surely the cheaper option of the £25 and no travel costs by watching your team have a chance to win the semi at home should be priority 

[Eddie]

17 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

Fair enough to an extent but if you that sort of money is an issue then surely the cheaper option of the £25 and no travel costs by watching your team have a chance to win the semi at home should be priority 

Too busy saving up for the £11.40 open return.

Football teams in the poorer Northern towns don’t struggle for crowds (Burnley being a great example, also Preston, Blackpool, Bradford City etc) so I don’t understand the rationale on this forum that RL is played in poor areas and people can’t afford one ticket on top of their ST. It’s more of a cultural thing that RL fans don’t go to extra games. 

[JonM]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

It’s more of a cultural thing that RL fans don’t go to extra games. 

There's an economic argument for ditching the playoffs and adding a couple more rounds of fixtures with top two in the grand final.

As I have said many times - playoffs get poor crowds because they're arranged at short notice. A reasonable proportion of people can't rearrange work or other things they do with only a few days notice.

[yipyee]

9 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:

On another note…

Jesus… “Saving up for the final”??? How much does one ticket actually cost?

edit note* at the risk of sounding incredibly inconsiderate, are there really that many fans short of an extra £30 - £50 to go to one extra game? 

50 for a family of 4 is 200 !

[yipyee]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Too busy saving up for the £11.40 open return.

Football teams in the poorer Northern towns don’t struggle for crowds (Burnley being a great example, also Preston, Blackpool, Bradford City etc) so I don’t understand the rationale on this forum that RL is played in poor areas and people can’t afford one ticket on top of their ST. It’s more of a cultural thing that RL fans don’t go to extra games. 

A lot of rugby fans will also be ST holders of footy clubs, footy season is back on, lots of internationals in RU and NFL, soccer etc and its coming into party / Christmas time.

The RFL are also flogging the internationals to THE SAME set of fans!

[Spidey]

4 minutes ago, yipyee said:

A lot of rugby fans will also be ST holders of footy clubs, footy season is back on, lots of internationals in RU and NFL, soccer etc and its coming into party / Christmas time.

The RFL are also flogging the internationals to THE SAME set of fans!

So they’re football fans with rugby on the side?

[Eddie]

1 hour ago, JonM said:

There's an economic argument for ditching the playoffs and adding a couple more rounds of fixtures with top two in the grand final.

As I have said many times - playoffs get poor crowds because they're arranged at short notice. A reasonable proportion of people can't rearrange work or other things they do with only a few days notice.

Again, football games arranged at short notice get large crowds and always have. It’s the culture of RL that’s the reason, not money or logistics. 

[gingerjon]

38 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Again, football games arranged at short notice get large crowds and always have. It’s the culture of RL that’s the reason, not money or logistics. 

And, again, we see the same things in soccer with non ST games and midweek games drawing lower crowds, or, more rarely, drawing equivalent crowds but with different people who can’t usually go because the league game ticket prices are either too high or sold out.

[EggFace]

Is it not up to IMG to get the crowds to games.

[Guest]

47 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Again, football games arranged at short notice get large crowds and always have. It’s the culture of RL that’s the reason, not money or logistics. 

it's an over reliance on a hardcore of fans and failure to expand out into the wider population and casual sports fan, not the culture of RL

[Eddie]

17 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

And, again, we see the same things in soccer with non ST games and midweek games drawing lower crowds, or, more rarely, drawing equivalent crowds but with different people who can’t usually go because the league game ticket prices are either too high or sold out.

Really? FA cup semi finals don’t get low crowds and they’re arranged at short notice. Plus fans have to travel to those games. 

[Eddie]

14 minutes ago, EggFace said:

Is it not up to IMG to get the crowds to games.

That’s lucky. 

[gingerjon]

7 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Really? FA cup semi finals don’t get low crowds and they’re arranged at short notice. Plus fans have to travel to those games. 

Neither sold out Wembley last season. City v Sheffield United had over 20,000 empty seats (I believe empty seats is the preferred way of counting these things).

[JonM]

29 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Again, football games arranged at short notice get large crowds and always have. 

 

If you have 10k fans and 20% can't make it, you get 8k. If you have 60k fans and a 40k stadium and 20% can't make it, you still get 40k.

13 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Really? FA cup semi finals don’t get low crowds and they’re arranged at short notice. Plus fans have to travel to those games. 

5 week gap between Fa cup QF and SF. It's 5 or 6 days for our play offs.