Bad times at Odsal. Bad times for the superleague.

42.37% down on the attendance last year and 37.66% down on the 2011 attendance.

Freebies no longer part of the remit up there??

Make sure you wipe your screen when you've done eve.

Hopefully, major changes to the structure of the game in the near future will help to ensure that regular season fixtures like the one this evening become meaningful once again to the 8,000 or more missing fans that used to turn up.

Mmm let me think!
Wow what a surprise the attendance is down from last. Wasn't last years game the last ever game at Odsal . Thus more fans went to put cash in the club that "we hate Rhino" supporters club.

First season I watched Leeds they must have averaged around 5,000. But it was all so much more meaningful back then.

Last ever game at Odsal thus more fans went to put cash in the club two years running?
2013 attendance: 12,016
2012 attendance: 20,851
2011 attendance: 19,275

But still no surprise the attendance is down.

How about 2010, William? Before the cheap tickets set in? Oh yeah, it was just over 13,000 then and on a sunny Sunday afternoon too.

Idiot.

A true Leeds fan knows Bradford & Leeds is an airport not a true Rugby League derby

why are you using attendances from 2011 & '12 to say changes are needed to the league structure......the structure was the same in those years that got better attendances. If the structure is wrong then the attendance would be wrong for the whole period of 8 team playoffs.

We're in a big recession, we're oop north and falling attendances is about the structure of the league?

A few tweaks here and there, bring back relegation and a Halifax v. Warrington game will get 102,000 again, for sure...

Incorrect

Are we talking 0.3% growth contrived through statistical fraud and funny money?

Any factual evidence to back that claim up?

No, didn't think so....

The areas where 12 of the 14 clubs are based are in recession. And the country is in the middle of an economic depression

The assumption that the official statistics are a pack of lies is, I admit, based merely on the assumption that the state is packed to the gunwales with habitual liars.

I assume you are not disputing that the UK prints money to buy its own debt. Without such an intervention the UK would be bust instead of simply trading whilst insolvent.

Depression?

Not quite

I am disputing that to a certain level as doing that would devalue the pound to next nothing so that's a stupid idea

Yes, it's the recession not the low intensity product on show

Only because we're not on the gold standard. This allows politicians to postpone economic collapse through currency debasement. See the economy of Zimbabwe for further details.

Well that's what's happening, and its not really a stupid idea as devaluing the currency is a good move in this environment. If Spain, Italy, Greece and Ireland had had that option they wouldn't be in quite the same mess they were/are in now.

Have you seen the price of gold/oil/productive land in sterling recently?