2025 Attendance Thread

[daz39]

4 minutes ago, Dave T said:

You can see on the video above that more than half of the away section was used. 2k would be half of it used, yet half of the next largest section was also in use. It's how I came to my guess of c2k as obviously it wasn't 100% as you say. 

The away stand is divided into 2,with home and away for the football and just away for the Rugby, with segregation it's current capacity is 3900, just short of 2,000 is the section for away fans.

It wasn't full, 75-80% probably. At a guess i'd say 1,600 Wire fans, i may be wrong though, i can find out.

[Bring back GB]

3 hours ago, JonM said:

Oldham v York 1521

Sheffield v Halifax 1101

Very disappointing crowd at Oldham 

[Dave T]

23 minutes ago, daz39 said:

The away stand is divided into 2,with home and away for the football and just away for the Rugby, with segregation it's current capacity is 3900, just short of 2,000 is the section for away fans.

It wasn't full, 75-80% probably. At a guess i'd say 1,600 Wire fans, i may be wrong though, i can find out.

The video shows fans past the half way mark on the stand. 

The maths don't stack up.

[daz39]

21 minutes ago, Dave T said:

The video shows fans past the half way mark on the stand. 

The maths don't stack up.

The stand is unreserved seating for the rugby giving it a capacity of around 2000 as i said, with reserved seating it's around 2,200.

[Londonbornirishbred]

To those obsessed with 'away fans", can I suggest that you sell out your own home games to local home supporting fans and once that is complete, then have a whine about away support?

If you allocate say 10% of your capacity to visiting supporters, then there's 90% of the ground to fill first and that's 100% down to you and your club! I've not had a gander, but I doubt anyone got 90% of the capacity as an average last year and that isn't down to away fans

[Dave T]

1 hour ago, daz39 said:

The stand is unreserved seating for the rugby giving it a capacity of around 2000 as i said, with reserved seating it's around 2,200.

Ah OK, so your estimate is 80% of 2,200 seats.

[daz39]

3 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Ah OK, so your estimate is 80% of 2,200 seats.

No 80% of 2,000, the 2,200 is the reserved seating amount, it's reduced by 10% for unreserved.

[Dave T]

3 minutes ago, daz39 said:

No 80% of 2,000, the 2,200 is the reserved seating amount, it's reduced by 10% for unreserved.

But the seats are still there. 

So what you're saying is that you are visually discounting 10% and then making your judgement of 80%?

Because 1600 would be just over 70% of seats being used.

 

[Josef K]

Is the capacity at HKR’s ground about 10,000. If so it’s been a healthy RD1 of attendances. 

[JonM]

6 hours ago, Josef K said:

Is the capacity at HKR’s ground about 10,000. If so it’s been a healthy RD1 of attendances. 

TotalRL reckons about 11,000 - the temporary stand was stated to add an extra 1000 seats.

[Archie Gordon]

9 hours ago, Bring back GB said:

Very disappointing crowd at Oldham 

I think the Champo crowds are a bit underwhelming all round.

[daz39]

8 hours ago, Dave T said:

But the seats are still there. 

So what you're saying is that you are visually discounting 10% and then making your judgement of 80%?

Because 1600 would be just over 70% of seats being used.

 

No, stands have to reduce their capacity by 10-15% if it is unreserved seating, so that area which would hold 2,200 for reserved seat football games becomes reduces at rugby ones to 2,000.

The seats are there they just can't be used, hence why no away team can ever 'fill' the away section.

Wire may have sold all the seats available to them but that doesn't mean every seat in the stand was taken, it can't be.

[langpark]

2 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:

I think the Champo crowds are a bit underwhelming all round.

Fev-Doncaster anyone?

[ricky]

1 minute ago, langpark said:

Fev-Doncaster anyone?

[Worzel]

9 hours ago, Josef K said:

Is the capacity at HKR’s ground about 10,000. If so it’s been a healthy RD1 of attendances. 

Lakin has said the new capacity is 11,200

The two block away section in the North Stand is 800, and looked like Cas had 50% filled it, so I'd guess you'd be looking at around 10,500 all in given the usual few hundred no shows amongst Rovers season ticket holders. 

On 14/02/2025 at 22:58, Josef K said:

I wonder what the Rovers fans thought of their spec in the makeshift stand!!. 

I think the ones I know of are just glad to be able to buy a season ticket, having been unable to otherwise, and couple of others glad to be able to move from the East terrace to a seat having got too old for standing! 

But seeing the stand was full for the first half, and only half-full for the second, it looked like a large number of people chose to either move into Craven Streat or sneak past the stewards and blag their way into an already-capacity East Stand. The club will have to watch that during the season, it's dangerously packed in there as it is to be honest.

 

[Dave T]

1 hour ago, daz39 said:

No, stands have to reduce their capacity by 10-15% if it is unreserved seating, so that area which would hold 2,200 for reserved seat football games becomes reduces at rugby ones to 2,000.

The seats are there they just can't be used, hence why no away team can ever 'fill' the away section.

Wire may have sold all the seats available to them but that doesn't mean every seat in the stand was taken, it can't be.

I know. So there are 2,200 seats and 10% have to remain empty. Therefore a 2k capacity. 

But then you are saying you can recognise those empty 10% seats and then work out a further 20% reduction. It's a hell of a skill.

What I'm baffled by is you saying there were 20% empty seats, but using the lower number as the capacity - but that would mean there were almost 30% empty seats!

I mean none of this is important, happy to move on, but your logic is odd here.

 

Edited February 17 by Dave T

[daz39]

13 minutes ago, Dave T said:

I know. So there are 2,200 seats and 10% have to remain empty. Therefore a 2k capacity. 

But then you are saying you can recognise those empty 10% seats and then work out a further 20% reduction. It's a hell of a skill.

What I'm baffled by is you saying there were 20% empty seats, but using the lower number as the capacity - but that would mean there were almost 30% empty seats!

I mean none of this is important, happy to move on, but your logic is odd here.

 

Official crowd = 5,783

Official away attendance = 1,872

32.3% = Warrington fans so not quite 3/4's.

For a freezing cold day in February that is superb and will take some beating even in the summer, well till KR's 32,564 come

[redjonn]

On 15/02/2025 at 16:54, DoubleD said:

Leeds attendance 15,364 even though they sent an email out yesterday saying over 15,500 tickets had been sold

wouldn't that be normal, that is always get some no shows...

[Dave T]

22 minutes ago, daz39 said:

Official crowd = 5,783

Official away attendance = 1,872

32.3% = Warrington fans so not quite 3/4's.

For a freezing cold day in February that is superb and will take some beating even in the summer, well till KR's 32,564 come

Thanks for posting. And you'll see from the start that I dismissed the 3/4's post that was from a fan of another club. We knew we'd sold 1500 on Friday, so it would be between 1500-2000 which it was. 

Disappointing that Hudds don't seem to have benefited from the opening weekend boost of home supporters, but as an outsider, it doesn't feel like it's been too positive off the field (all the talk of the stadium being rubbish and them moving away to Halifax etc). 

But I thought Hudds did well yesterday, looked tough and that should set you up nicely, good luck for the rest of the year.

[langpark]

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[Archie Gordon]

RLonTV reports STH-SAL BBC2 viewing figures as 318k average. A bit down on last year's opener (CAS-WIG).

[Leyther_Matt]

20 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:

RLonTV reports STH-SAL BBC2 viewing figures as 318k average. A bit down on last year's opener (CAS-WIG).

Not bad tbf given I’m sure there will have been plenty who decided not to bother once they’d heard about the team selections. 

[Forever Trinity]

15 hours ago, Dave T said:

I'm not sure of your point. I suggested we had more than 1.5k which we had sold on Friday, maybe up to 2k. That would align with the above.

This video shows it was slightly more than half open.

 

 

Apologies I misread your post I was referring to I thought you said there were 4000 having re read it is there weren't 

[Luke HKR]

13 hours ago, Josef K said:

Is the capacity at HKR’s ground about 10,000. If so it’s been a healthy RD1 of attendances. 

The new seats have made it just over 11-000. We pretty much sell out the home ends every game. As I can't go every week, I'm a non ticketed member and when it's my turn to be able to buy there are very few left.

[Luke HKR]

3 hours ago, Worzel said:

Lakin has said the new capacity is 11,200

The two block away section in the North Stand is 800, and looked like Cas had 50% filled it, so I'd guess you'd be looking at around 10,500 all in given the usual few hundred no shows amongst Rovers season ticket holders. 

I think the ones I know of are just glad to be able to buy a season ticket, having been unable to otherwise, and couple of others glad to be able to move from the East terrace to a seat having got too old for standing! 

But seeing the stand was full for the first half, and only half-full for the second, it looked like a large number of people chose to either move into Craven Streat or sneak past the stewards and blag their way into an already-capacity East Stand. The club will have to watch that during the season, it's dangerously packed in there as it is to be honest.

 

To be honest I would have kept the seats where they were for last seasons Leeds & play off games. At the south end, as it is like you say packed in craven street. And they had it about right then.

11,020 is great for a first game. If we do well can see it being even more of a struggle to get in at home games. Might even put on more than 2 buses to get back to town.