Now that the players have ticked a box, the rest is up to the fans.

I believe the club is still a couple of hundred short of the average 2,500 attendance they need.

Last 3 home games of crowds of 3,000+ would see to that.

But doesnt the average need to be over the 3 seasons running up to the application process?

Don't think so - I don't think Fax's average was 2500 over the past three seasons, but they achieved it last season.

One season only and knowing the rfl they'll probably say the 2013 season. Fax were allowed to fudge it so it looked like there was competition for the SL place up for grabs.

we should do what others do - give 1000 tickets away to schools and count them all whether they show up or not.

We need bigger gates to stay in existence. That's the only box we need to tick and think about at the moment.

Totally agree mate , what gets to me is our fair weather fans , on Sunday night at the LSV , welcoming back Basil and the lads , was a good crowd ,but there were people there ive never seen in my life , i know i dont know all the fans , but as a home and away supporter you get to know the regular faces.

Even Shandy Bass made an appearance



,and a very loud guy at the front , never seen him before, it will be interesting to see what the crowd is on Sunday , and whether these FANS come again.

LEIGH NEEDS YOU .

Personnally until we can draw 4,000 paying spectators , there isnt much point going anywhere , because anybody who thinks we will increase our fan base IN SL is living on Planet ZOG

We did last time.

We did have a big help from some large away followings though.

We are discussing leigh fans here , and I'd beg to differ , look at the last 2/3 attendances and then take off the away fans ?

I think the London home game showed up roughly what the average was for actual home supporters that season.

And it was ?

We also had to have every home game all ticket and ridiculous crowd restrictions imposed by Wigan MBC not to mention a very poor side.

And what would be any different next time ?

Just over 3,200

Very true. To become another Salford (ie getting thumped most weeks with the odd win) isn't something that holds much attraction to me, personally.

The London game was 3,201 - the interesting stat is that the next home game against Hull FC only got 3,427 with obviously a much bigger from Hull than the Broncos.

And unlikely to rise much until you start to compete with the big lads , which in turn results in less away support to see what they consider a non match

So until you hit 4,000 ave in the Championship and can then hope to pull in another 2,000 when you go up , so 6K , then initially a couple of thousand ave away , giving at least 7/8,000 ave overall allowing you to get close to max SC spend

And both games where the highlights of the season for entertainment value and edge of seat stuff.
We just don't have a big enough pool of fans at the moment. I am not talking about loyal ones that would drive through Iraq if it meant getting to a game either. You will always have fans that turn up as and when or once every Blue moon (

), and they are welcome - eg 4000 turn up out of say 7000 potentially turn up. With that 7000 mostly all turning up for finals or semi's etc. At the minute IMO we have about 3,500 as a pool of fans, and on average just over 2,000 turning up from that with vast majority the Iraq journey kind.

That just about sums it up perfectly , if you look at the Mutants they have the 7,000 and the 4,000 , and those numbers could rise in SL if they are guranteed a spend from the start and all the way through 3 years no matter how they perform

The problem is though, how is anyone in the Championship going to attract more fans to come and watch effectively a season of freindlies.

we have been to 2 grand finals and 1 northern rail cup final in the last 3 seasons and we havent been able to get bigger support infact ours has even gone down a little.

you have won the northern rail cup but can you get those fair whether fans to come every week, which is a problem every team in the championship has.

Crowd figures again? OK, currently 3 SL clubs averages are way below our ave in our only SL season of 4750. Crusaders ave 3438 (4616 in 2010), Quins 3083 (3379 in2010), Salford 4417 (up from 4166 in 2010). IMO shocking but shows that sub 5000 is not necessarily a prob.........you just go bust of course

In 2006 we had same problem when we stuffed biggest club in the world in Blackpoo. Week after no change in the gates considering what a great day it was. We are hoping for better turn out and backing to push us to GF - fingers crossed this will happen this time.
The "season of friendlies" have always been a problem at this level, because the competition is deemed not worthy by a lot of fans with focus always on that FT competition.
We have a great competitive competition as it is. We just need it sold better to the masses, which again has always been a problem even before 2009.

The atmosphere in 2006 doesn't come close to probably half a dozen games at the LSV, never mind Sunday. A real buzz in the past few weeks and long may it continue.

I would say the atmosphere in the first half of last season and the whole of this season has been as good as anything in the last ten years,we just need a lot of new faces to experiance it and enjoy it.