2024 attendance thread

[Worzel]

1 minute ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Careful I got banned for a similar comment a few months ago:(((

…yes a pal of mine did too, HKB, after someone accused him of making a strawman argument. It’s a terrible punishment, definitely to be avoided if possible. 

[Gay pride]

14 hours ago, Dave T said:

There just doesn't appear to be any buzz around the place tbh. It's all a bit lacklustre, I haven't really seen owt to convince me to go this year tbh. 

Clubs need to remember it's easy to now watch from home in comfort, they need to work harder to get people in. Warrington don't seem to be doing that. 

I do feel that the club feels a bit disengaged from it's fanbase. 

There seems to be no effort to promote the club. All the good things they did a few seasons ago with Wolfie seems to have been sidelined.

Was very flat at the Hull game, very, very disappointing considering other clubs have really stepped up there marketing and gamely experience. Even more disappointing when you consider we have a very high profile coach who you would think was very marketable in his own right.

If thinks don't improve off the field I can see we will see a big decrease in our attendances this season, not matter what the results are on the field.

 

[Leyther_Matt]

15 hours ago, Josef K said:

13,028 at Saints a decent crowd with it being so bloody cold, but it was down 400 on last year when we played them. 

9 hours ago, yipyee said:

Seemed to be a lot less leythers this year, plus we played them in the warmer summer months.

Leigh actually pre-sold 300 more tickets for Friday than the game last September. Not sure whether Saints had a few more on the gate that time because of the post semi-final rumblings.  

[Exiled Wiganer]

One thing that is interesting with all of these simultaneous games is that you get a sense of how telegenic the different games look. On Friday, the Wigan one looked much the best of the 3, in large part because of the lighting and the acoustics. 
 

While ours was the biggest crowd it was very largely home fans, and a lower proportion of the ground was filled than the other grounds. While the other 2 had more jeopardy for longer, I honestly think that it would have been more enjoyable watching the Wigan game than the others.
 

There was also the excitement of watching the World’s best club side, but even so. I don’t know how much it matters, or indeed whether it is fair but I wonder whether Saints and Wire have work to do on lighting, acoustics and atmosphere. All of which would improve the experience of being at the ground…
 

[Archie Gordon]

8 minutes ago, Exiled Wiganer said:

One thing that is interesting with all of these simultaneous games is that you get a sense of how telegenic the different games look. On Friday, the Wigan one looked much the best of the 3, in large part because of the lighting and the acoustics. 
 

While ours was the biggest crowd it was very largely home fans, and a lower proportion of the ground was filled than the other grounds. While the other 2 had more jeopardy for longer, I honestly think that it would have been more enjoyable watching the Wigan game than the others.
 

There was also the excitement of watching the World’s best club side, but even so. I don’t know how much it matters, or indeed whether it is fair but I wonder whether Saints and Wire have work to do on lighting, acoustics and atmosphere. All of which would improve the experience of being at the ground…
 

Interesting.

I thought the Saints game looked way better than Wigan on TV.

[Eddie]

13 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:

Interesting.

I thought the Saints game looked way better than Wigan on TV.

I did too, Wigan games (other than the WCC) always seem flat. 

[JonNgog]

10,000 at Hull. Not that bad all things considered.

[gingerjon]

5 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:

Interesting.

I thought the Saints game looked way better than Wigan on TV.

Yup. Not even close.

[bratman]

4 minutes ago, JonNgog said:

10,000 at Hull. Not that bad all things considered.

Good but doesn't look like 10k

[EggFace]

6 minutes ago, JonNgog said:

10,000 at Hull. Not that bad all things considered.

Looks awful on Tv.

[Tommygilf]

732 ish at Sheffield vs Batley today.

[gingerjon]

19 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

732 ish 

I admire an 'approximately 732' far more than an 'approximately 730'.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

50 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

I admire an 'approximately 732' far more than an 'approximately 730'.

How do you feel about an actual 727?

[gingerjon]

9 minutes ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:

How do you feel about an actual 727?

Is that like a baby Boeing?

[JohnM]

2 hours ago, EggFace said:

Looks awful on Tv.

You don't say!

[Tommygilf]

1 hour ago, gingerjon said:

I admire an 'approximately 732' far more than an 'approximately 730'.

I couldn't remember exactly but knew it wasn't a multiple of 10

[EggFace]

25 minutes ago, JohnM said:

You don't say!

Was just checking it out as wasn't going to watch it with Las Vegas being on but not a good image for the team and sport.

[Eddie]

23 minutes ago, EggFace said:

Was just checking it out as wasn't going to watch it with Las Vegas being on but not a good image for the team and sport.

What do you propose should be done about it? 

[JM2010]

Looks like over 10 000 average for all 6 games this weekend. Pretty good 

[Worzel]

Hull KR is going to sell out again this week.

This is great, but it really does highlight how we need to expand the ground with some urgency. The club hasn’t won anything yet, so if we’re creating this much demand simply by playing well and getting in the Top 4 once, imagine what real success would bring? We don’t want to lose the opportunity to enable new customers to sample the product. At the moment we risk that. 

 

[Leyther_Matt]

2 hours ago, Worzel said:

Hull KR is going to sell out again this week.

This is great, but it really does highlight how we need to expand the ground with some urgency. The club hasn’t won anything yet, so if we’re creating this much demand simply by playing well and getting in the Top 4 once, imagine what real success would bring? We don’t want to lose the opportunity to enable new customers to sample the product. At the moment we risk that. 

 

You’d imagine as a bare minimum that they’d be looking at reducing the visitors allocation (bar Hull) if at all possible or maybe even moving them to the Well.

[EggFace]

17 hours ago, Eddie said:

What do you propose should be done about it? 

They need to have there own stadium 16,000 max but thats never going to happen.

[Worzel]

47 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

You’d imagine as a bare minimum that they’d be looking at reducing the visitors allocation (bar Hull) if at all possible or maybe even moving them to the Well.

Yes I think at the moment we've given 2 blocks of the North Stand to Warrington, so c800. Sometimes if the away team pre-sales aren't that high we reduce that and put more tickets on sale later in the week (the  away section is unreserved so we can just make it smaller). But what we really need is to extend the East Stand to the south end of the pitch, creating 1,000 or so extra standing tickets in the area of the ground most people want to be in. 

The other issue is hospitality. All the boxes are sold for the season, the main restaurant usually sells out and the cheaper 'Legends Lounge' restaurant memberships are also almost all gone. So we risk leaving a lot of money on the table (and hospitality buyers tend to be the pool of future sponsors so you want to get them in where you can). The "corporates" capacity is what drives Leeds and Catalans much greater revenues, and just as big a gap for us to bridge to sustain ourselves as a top-level club. 

Nice problem to have though. Certainly beats watching with 1,200 others in the rain against Barrow, on a postage-stamp- sized farmers field pitch crammed in the middle of both a dog track and a speedway track. 

[Eddie]

2 hours ago, EggFace said:

They need to have there own stadium 16,000 max but thats never going to happen.

Exactly. 

[Worzel]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Exactly. 

If Hull City got their way and were allowed to build a training "campus" on the land along Walton Street next door to the stadium, maybe a smaller ground could be built within that - just as Man City did at the Etihad - which FC could use for most matches and just hold derby games at the MKM. It would be ideal. 

But I really can't see the council backing down on the idea: Hull Fair has been held on that land for hundreds of years, it's the biggest in Europe and I can't see the council risking moving it to another site.