2024 attendance thread

[Fly-By-TheWire]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

The current economic climate has little to do with it, football crowds in the North West (and everywhere else) are booming, and they’re not all wealthy people. 

I would have thought it would have a significant effect, so that's depressing reading if what you say is true.   The attendances at our major games / finals are on the decline.   Is this simply down to us having an older core fanbase that is not being replaced?   I accept that some smaller clubs on the up are doing better than they have historically, which is natural.

[ATLANTISMAN]

3 hours ago, Fly-By-TheWire said:

I would have thought it would have a significant effect, so that's depressing reading if what you say is true.   The attendances at our major games / finals are on the decline.   Is this simply down to us having an older core fanbase that is not being replaced?   I accept that some smaller clubs on the up are doing better than they have historically, which is natural.

Some clubs have done a brill job in attracting new young fans.

Dragons 

Leigh 

Are the 2 real standouts this season how do i know we'll it's because I have watched around 40 SL matches this season so far and have seen it with my own eyes.

[Damien]

 

 

[Trojan Horse]

5 hours ago, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

With season ticket holders, young and old, having to pay for entry to the play off games the chances of sell outs are slim. imho

Next years home crowds will be determined to a large extent by whether or not we are in Super League, obviously, and whatever the 2025 pricing structure will be. I don't expect the club to repeat this season's bargain basement offers and freebies.

Well paying over £250+ for my season ticket I’d have to disagree with the bargain basement offers. The only freebies were child tickets which you could only get via purchasing an adult season ticket ofcourse. 
 

There is different price points for the different stands. This will likely remain but ofcourse these will raise should we get back in SL. But I expect almost all will take up the season tickets after a positive season. 
 

As for the team playoff games. Doesn’t hurt to be enthusiastic. I’d still expect a good turnout. I’m looking forward to them and I’m sure every other of the 5000+ trinity fans will be too and hopefully some of less frequent fans turn up too. 
 

Should see better away support than we’ve seen all season hopefully. 

 

 

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

56 minutes ago, Trojan Horse said:

Well paying over £250+ for my season ticket I’d have to disagree with the bargain basement offers. The only freebies were child tickets which you could only get via purchasing an adult season ticket ofcourse. 

 

I think I paid about £250 in 2023 for North Stand (not including simultaneously buying a shirt early as a platinum member) but only about £150 this season.  Don't know what old East Stand cost in comparison to new one so can't comment.

[JonNgog]

8 hours ago, Damien said:

 

 

Sales still look very sparse on Wigan’s ticket map.

Edited October 1 by JonNgog

[Archie Gordon]

36 minutes ago, JonNgog said:

Sales still look very sparse on Wigan’s ticket map.

Just looked and must admit I thought the opposite, especially if the Leigh end is filled (or due to be). 

[sweaty craiq]

1 hour ago, JonNgog said:

Sales still look very sparse on Wigan’s ticket map.

It would have to be 60% full to hit 12k and it looks that way, Leigh go on open sale tonight but I understand are well on the way to filling the stand and will then be allocated sections of the East?

[John m]

10 hours ago, Damien said:

 

 

Are these just tickets sold by Wigan and not included Leigh fans?

[LeytherRob]

3.5k sold so far by Leigh, still 1 tier of membership to get access before general sale. 

[Damien]

12 hours ago, Damien said:

 

 

Another 1k gone in about half a day:

 

 

[LeeF]

The decent attendances at the weekend plus the excellent matches along with record TV viewing numbers will all assist with the next TV deal

 

 

 

[sweaty craiq]

The Salford v Leigh number is huge if only on pay tv?

[Archie Gordon]

2 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:

The Salford v Leigh number is huge if only on pay tv?

Yeah. That's what intrigued me too. 400k peak only on Sky?

[GeordieSaint]

1 hour ago, LeeF said:

The decent attendances at the weekend plus the excellent matches along with record TV viewing numbers will all assist with the next TV deal

 

 

 

Really encouraging. The playoffs after the excellent start at Salford have captured the imagination this year. 

Just need to Leigh to beat Wigan and all will be well with the RL world this year! 

[Exiled Wiganer]

Anyone watching Wire v Saints would have gone away wanting more of the same. 

[sweaty craiq]

3 hours ago, Damien said:

Another 1k gone in about half a day:

 

 

Already a play off record when Leigh’s numbers are added with 4K plus and open sale only starts at 5 today

[Damien]

20 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:

Really encouraging. The playoffs after the excellent start at Salford have captured the imagination this year. 

Just need to Leigh to beat Wigan and all will be well with the RL world this year! 

You had to go spoil what would have been a good post.

[JonNgog]

10 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:

Just looked and must admit I thought the opposite, especially if the Leigh end is filled (or due to be). 

The east stand opposite the camera is the concern. It currently looks about 1/3 full… hopefully will sell a lot more by Friday.

[Damien]

4 hours ago, sweaty craiq said:

Already a play off record when Leigh’s numbers are added with 4K plus and open sale only starts at 5 today

It still has a fair way to go to beat the play off record of 21,790 for Wigan v Saints in 2003.

[Damien]

Make that 14k sold at wigan now

[Eddie]

8 hours ago, LeeF said:

The decent attendances at the weekend plus the excellent matches along with record TV viewing numbers will all assist with the next TV deal

 

 

 

Without wanting to pour water on this in RL style, have any other play off games been on the BBC or have they all been confined to Sky? If the latter that will explain the record viewing figures. 

[M j M]

7 hours ago, sweaty craiq said:

Already a play off record when Leigh’s numbers are added with 4K plus and open sale only starts at 5 today

Play off record for whom?

[JM2010]

6 minutes ago, M j M said:

Play off record for whom?

I think for Super League

[Trojan Horse]

21 hours ago, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

I think I paid about £250 in 2023 for North Stand (not including simultaneously buying a shirt early as a platinum member) but only about £150 this season.  Don't know what old East Stand cost in comparison to new one so can't comment.

I think the old east was about £270/£280. 

it’s great that you are committed to buy a north ticket at £250 but some won’t commit to a jump of £100. 

This season it cost me about that using commit 6 but that no longer exists. 
 

I’d expect next seasons prices will rise somewhat but probably between the two so not to have a big jump and scare a sway some away. 
 

They will undoubtably go up in north and west though. Probably £150 > £200 in north and £100-150 in West or something like. 
 

Think East will stay around £270-£280 mark.