Anyone know what todays attendance was? Can't find it anywhere

29,679 I think...

It was confirmed as 29,364 during the Wigan V Saints game

Not quite.

29,627

Regardless, all things considered, it [iis[/i a good attendance.

You think so, Saints and Wigan on its own usually gets around 18,000 doesn't it?

Saints/Wigan 18,000
Wakey/Bradford 8,000
Quins/Salford 3000

Works out at about the same as a normal round.

Saints/Wigan 18,000
Wakey/Bradford 8,000
Quins/Salford 3000
Local Support ?????

Yes Wigan home attendance (including season ticket holders/away fans/ etc) but I'm considering all the 'away' fans teams take. For example we may take 4,000 to Wigan but to Bradford, 500.

Factor in the '[uCredit Crunch[/u and the [uAporkalypse[/u and its respectable.

Shame its not full to the brim but when was the last time we got 135600 people to a round of games, or even the 67800 the ground accommodates

no it's the swine flu to blame

Seemed to be a lot of empty spaces but doubtless the R.F.L. will talk it up as a total success.

we'll fill em later

note.

A ppor attendance - there should be at least 40000 a day - perhaps we should consider who is benefitting out of all of this

certainly not the teams - only the RFL benefit if they expand theie empire

Why should clubs have to travel another 180 miles to play a team in Scotland with little or no support

In spite of all the effort RL in London (professionally) hasnt taken off

Time to expand in RL country and keep it local

I wonder if the RFL have considered playing these matches at a stadium which holds nearer 40k fans than 60K + it didn't look too go on tv when you saw all the empty seats.

With the smaller stadium you'd create a much better atmosphere all round and it'd look better on TV.

Said on the SL website that the crowd was nearly 4,000 down on last years figure, but bizarely they claim the crowd had grown? www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=13928

Said on the SL website that the crowd was nearly 4,000 down on last years figure, but bizarely they claim the crowd had grown? www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=13928

I can't honestly see how anything positive can come out of this 'Magic' nonsense.

Playing glorified exhibition matches in front of three quarter empty stadiums does absolutely nothing for the game's image, which is what this stunt is apparently all about.

The scary thing is that if Lindsay & co had their way back in the mid 90's, when they first dreamed of Super League, and all the foolish 'regional' sides, then this is how the game would have become like.....Matches played in empty, souless stadiums, with passionless crowds....

Only option I would have thought.

why not just scrap it, play 26 games

The ground looked empty on the telly. From a neutrals perspective not a good advert at all. I flicked the telly over and some Onion match at Twickers looked nearly full.

wasnt that Cardiff?

Regardless of whether it has spread rugby league, it is still a great weekend for the fans, it is good for all the fans to mix and there was a great atmosphere within the different sections. For example, the banter between wire fans and hull kr fans was great, and it was a much better atmosphere than any other wire hull kr match i have been too.

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Said on the SL website that the crowd was nearly 4,000 down on last years figure, but bizarely they claim the crowd had grown? www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=13928'" Compared to first year in a new stadium yes. And more locals went too.

Quote ="Fearnhead Cross"Said on the SL website that the crowd was nearly 4,000 down on last years figure, but bizarely they claim the crowd had grown? www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=13928'" Compared to first year in a new stadium yes. And more locals went too.

But not compared with last year!

I'd love to say it was a resounding success and the RFL are doing a fantastic job.

But a half empty stadium looks bad to a newcomer/neutral a bad advert for the game.

A new neutral venue is great but one with say a capacity of 35,000.

Ambition is all well and good but half full stadiums are embarrassing.


If that was Football (and the fans got on with each other) they would of filled the Nou camp 10 times over.

The RFL needs ambition and ambitious people but some realism wouldn't go a miss either