in percentage terms the biggest gainers are clearly huddersfield.

and i believe they can improve their crowds another 50% on current figures when they win a SL title.

st helens and bradford need new grounds for much gains in crowds from current figures.

leeds peaked a few years ago, again headingly needs further improvements.

warrington with a winning team could get back over 10,000 and push for ground improvements.

without new or improved grounds, not many clubs can go much higher

Spanked again today

Hull have had their derby which has helped their figures, but still is excellent.

Blummin 'eck, Rovers average since getting into SL is higher than 2000, 2001 & 2002 for our friends over the river. How can this be when we all know they have never had less than a 10k crowd since they were formed in 1465.

Is that a bandwagon I here rolling along

Although a new ground is very much needed for Saints we are currently showing something like a 25% increase in attendances on last season so things are heading in the right direction for us.

You've got to hand it to Huddersfield, who for years have borne the brunt of the low crowds jibes. Their average so far is a huge improvement and the season pass strategy could well be applied elsewhere.

Huh?

Huddersfield have gone from 5142 to 7846 last season and over 9200 this season.

Hull have gone from 5741 to 13431 last season and over 15000 so far this season.

Leeds have gone from 8581 to over 17000 last season and over 13000 this season with all the big attendances to come.

I think its clear that since the begining of SL the biggest gainers in percentage terms are Hull and Leeds.

Huddersfields average was, at its lowest ebb in SL, ~2,600.

I'm confused, who are you accusing of bandwagonning?

By my reckoning an ajusted for fan base table would put us top

Depends entirely who you support, if from Twickenham you support London, then you is dead last!

and still less than wigan with all your recent success.

saints crowds are poor.

You mean fans/population base?

Huddersfield have had homes games this season against Quins and Celtic + the games against Leeds and Hull were on Sky which will have reduced the numbers.

All in all a good bit of work - hopefully fans won't be fickle with the recent run of games.

I wonder how many will go watch V Rochdale at a 11:30am kick off?

Most of us have them, but if you listen to a lot of fans of our neighbours it only counts as bandwagon support if its not them (ie 5,000 ish average in 2000 to what it is now)

lol a team that was only in existance for a year, paris, with a bigger average attendence than the hot beds of rugby league, Leigh and Widnes

Was going to respond but would be a waste of time like every attempt to expand the game by the clowns at the RFL

This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances

This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances

Quote ="Speedy"This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances'" Nice to see that were at least top of 1 table but thought we would have had 1 of the best fan base V's population anyway

Quote ="Speedy"This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances'" Nice to see that were at least top of 1 table but thought we would have had 1 of the best fan base V's population anyway

Quote ="Speedy"This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances'" That guy is very lazy, but I will see if I can get him to sort something out at some point. I reckon he will first need to see about getting an updated populations spreadsheet from the government. Probably. Michael.

Quote ="Speedy"This guy used to bring out good figures but i cant trace last years or this so far jotbin.com/articles/2007/01/14/p ... ttendances'" That guy is very lazy, but I will see if I can get him to sort something out at some point. I reckon he will first need to see about getting an updated populations spreadsheet from the government. Probably. Michael.