2025 Attendance Thread

[LeytherRob]

Leigh look set to beat last season's opening crowd (also against Hudds) of 8580. Hopefully should get above 9k with a few days to go plus walkups on the day.

[Eddie]

51 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Despite all the gloom and the justified frustrations over internationals, it feels like something is happening in SL. 

Great presentation generally being rewarded with good crowds. 

I'd love it if these translated into big event crowdsnin the Cup and at Magic.

Hopefully the three Ashes tests (if they happen) will be the icing on the cake. I’m making myself unpopular at home by holding off on arranging a holiday until I know when/where those matches are. 

[Devon Ram]

On 30/01/2025 at 09:22, whatmichaelsays said:

Planning permission and a safety certificate. 

It's not impossible to get around - Gillingham FC seem to have had a "temporary" stand up at one end since the late 90s and most of the stands at Silverstone are "temporary". But I suspect there becomes a point where the cost of maintaining a lot of scaffolding becomes more hassle than it's worth. 

Blackpool & Bournemouth put up temporary stands & both still being used.

 

[Chrispmartha]

1 hour ago, Dave T said:

Despite all the gloom and the justified frustrations over internationals, it feels like something is happening in SL. 

Great presentation generally being rewarded with good crowds. 

I'd love it if these translated into big event crowdsnin the Cup and at Magic.

Almost as if weve had the services of a professional sports marketing company or something 

[Archie Gordon]

It's tremendous that we now have 2 SL clubs who might put the 'Sold Out' sign up for almost every game. Also love the fact that these grounds have grown organically - modern all-seaters have their place but so too do Craven Park, Belle Vue, Wheldon Road. There is something special about a packed terrace.

[MZH]

14,000 now sold for Hull FC v Wigan. With 24 hours to go and a few hopefully deciding last minute it would be nice to get 15,000+

I just hope we can back up the Catalans game by at least being competitive again.

[PREPOSTEROUS]

 

 

 

[Worzel]

40 minutes ago, MZH said:

14,000 now sold for Hull FC v Wigan. With 24 hours to go and a few hopefully deciding last minute it would be nice to get 15,000+

I just hope we can back up the Catalans game by at least being competitive again.

Really good test of the new culture Cartwright will be installing. Wigan are a machine, but they are possible to constrain through very diligent, relentless hard work in defence.

Hard to call a Hull win, but you don't need to beat Wigan in order to have a far better season, you just need to show the sort of spirit, effort and more mature decision-making that was lacking last year. I expect a lot of fans will come away happy from this match in defeat, as long as they see that difference.  

[sweaty craiq]

Well done Wakey, now lets hope the Salford fans back their club.

If we can average over 10k with the fixtures we have this week it would be brilliant

Edited February 20 by sweaty craiq

[MZH]

21 minutes ago, Worzel said:

Really good test of the new culture Cartwright will be installing. Wigan are a machine, but they are possible to constrain through very diligent, relentless hard work in defence.

Hard to call a Hull win, but you don't need to beat Wigan in order to have a far better season, you just need to show the sort of spirit, effort and more mature decision-making that was lacking last year. I expect a lot of fans will come away happy from this match in defeat, as long as they see that difference.  

And I think we will get that. They made all the right noises in pre season about fitness and effort and accountability and I thought the Catalans game backed that up. Yes it was just one game but they simply couldn't have put in that sort of performance last year. They have clearly been putting the hard yards in and the coaches look to have them extremely well organised in defence.

I think we can keep Wigan to a modest points total. The question is do we have the quality with the ball to pose enough problems to the best defence in SL. Possibly in the world. 

If we compete hard for 80 minutes though I'm sure most of that crowd will go away happy.

[Taffy Tiger]

1 hour ago, PREPOSTEROUS said:

 

 

 

Great effort , how many is 'sold out' ? Any idea?

[langpark]

17 minutes ago, Taffy Tiger said:

Great effort , how many is 'sold out' ? Any idea?

I guess we will find out tonight. But I think it won't be much over 8000. Was their last match against Toulouse a sellout? Crowd figure for that was 8,016. 

[Taffy Tiger]

14 minutes ago, langpark said:

I guess we will find out tonight. But I think it won't be much over 8000. Was their last match against Toulouse a sellout? Crowd figure for that was 8,016. 

It was I think and there was temporary terracing that day , where new temporary terracing is now , in front of flats , but it will depend on the work they've done to North Stand and any extra capacity that has brought .

 

Either way a good effort from Wakey .

Edited February 20 by Taffy Tiger

[PREPOSTEROUS]

36 minutes ago, Taffy Tiger said:

Great effort , how many is 'sold out' ? Any idea?

At a guess 8.5k to 9k. 

[Forever Trinity]

24 minutes ago, langpark said:

I guess we will find out tonight. But I think it won't be much over 8000. Was their last match against Toulouse a sellout? Crowd figure for that was 8,016. 

Work on the lower North and terracing put in at the South end will have increased capacity. Rovers haven't sold out as tickets are available in the South and West but I would think capacity is near to 9k

[Taffy Tiger]

8 minutes ago, Forever Trinity said:

Work on the lower North and terracing put in at the South end will have increased capacity. Rovers haven't sold out as tickets are available in the South and West but I would think capacity is near to 9k

So does the sell-out refer to Wakey fans only ?

[Damien]

I'd have thought Belle Vue would hold over 9k at least. Their highest SL crowd was 10,031 in 2013 and surely it holds more than it did then (or at least now far off it with any more stringent safety rules in place).

Edited February 20 by Damien

[Worzel]

30 minutes ago, back in the day said:

Is this just for kr fans?

Wakey have announced it as a sell out now. 

[Worzel]

5 minutes ago, back in the day said:

Awesome.

all away fans tickets sold out too?

We only had standing tickets in mixed areas, and took them off sale at noon, so if Wakey are announcing a sell out then any we had left must have been sold by them. Hull KR had sold just shy of 1,500 at the last count. 

 

[Damien]

Sure looks good:

 

[Damien]

8,065 at a sold out Wakefield. 

[Odsal Outlaw]

8 hours ago, Dave T said:

Despite all the gloom and the justified frustrations over internationals, it feels like something is happening in SL. 

Great presentation generally being rewarded with good crowds. 

I'd love it if these translated into big event crowdsnin the Cup and at Magic.

Was thinking the same, the whole presentation is better … ‘something’ seems to forcing clubs to present their grounds and themselves better, the social content is stronger and the TV presentation has had a revamp - and the crowds are growing. It’s starting to look like a modern sport at SL level. 

Edited February 20 by Odsal Outlaw

[sweaty craiq]

Just Salford and Hudds to sort now. Hopefully Salford crowds can reach potential but feel Hudds need to be replaced by Bradford

[RayCee]

4 hours ago, Damien said:

8,065 at a sold out Wakefield. 

A fantasitc attendance and well above anything of late. I'm assuming there is some growth in capacity that will occur during the season as the stadium is fully completed. 

I've got Wakefield averaging 8,172 in the 2012 season in what was an outlier. I'd say a 5k average would be about right in recent decades. Actually, I don't know why I'm guessing. I did an article here:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6354415412611503001/5400019178801227824

Duh.

[Snowys Backside]

11 hours ago, LeytherRob said:

Leigh look set to beat last season's opening crowd (also against Hudds) of 8580. Hopefully should get above 9k with a few days to go plus walkups on the day.

If Leigh can get 9K for the visit of Huddersfield, that would represent great growth.

I believe half of the South Stand is to be allocated to Leigh Fans, so absolutely the right decision. Lets hope the forecast doesn't spoil the game too much.