Attendances : Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:18 pm  

Just found this..

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1 Leeds - 15474, Down 7.7%, High vs Bradford 17824
2 Wigan - 14287, Down 1.5%, High vs St Helens 22232
3 Hull FC - 13179, Down 1.9%, High vs Hull KR 22337
4 St Helens - 11362, Up 7.5%, High vs Warrington 17009
5 Bradford - 10189, Down 1%, High vs Leeds 14554
6 Catalans - 9363, Up 11.8%, High VS Warrington 18150
7 Warrington - 9155, Down 3.7%, High vs St Helens 12075
8 Hull KR - 8473, Down 1%, High vs Hull FC 9450
9 Huddersfield - 8048, Up 2.5%, High vs Leeds 11593
10 Castleford - 7553, Up 0.9%, High vs Wakefield 10155
11 Wakefield - 5848, Down 16%, High vs Castleford 8371
12 Salford - 4569, Up 13.5%, High vs Wigan 7016
13 Celtic - 3661, Up 68.4%, High vs St Helens 6531
14 Harlequins - 3515, Down 6.9%, High vs Leeds 4324

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Glad to see ours up (slightly), but i am shocked by how much Wakey's has fallen!

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:56 pm  

Our average is wrong. It's 7658 or something.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:08 pm  

Fully wrote:

Our average is wrong. It's 7658 or something.

7658.18 in fact. Give yourself a dolly mixture.

The figure given is the average before the Hull KR match.

Including the Halifax CC game, the average home attendance this year is 7486 (and a quarter!)

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:10 pm  

I actually calculate our average to be 7658, not that it makes too much odds I suppose. The sky games are in bold.

Harlequins RL 7,049
Salford 7,052
Huddersfield 6,572
Bradford 9,185
Wakefield 10,155
St Helens 8,003
Leeds 8,082
Warrington 5,628
Catalans 5,508
Hull 8,297
Hull K.R. 8,709

Sky results obviously have a big impact but last year the Huddersfield game wasn't on Sky and there wasn't too much difference in how many turned up. I think the biggest disappointment there is the Wire game, sure it was on Sky, but so was the Catalans game and we know what their following is like.

I suppose we were rather fortunate to play Quins on game 1 and pull in a decent opening game attendance.

With only Wigan and Celtic left, I reckon our final average will be about 7400. It's a shame we couldn't hit the 8k this year. It would have looked good for the franchise application. Hopefully we will hit it next season.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:11 pm  

Fully wrote:

Our average is wrong. It's 7658 or something.

Pah, beat me to it!

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:13 pm  

i am surprised bradford are still averaging 10,000 i thought they had had a good few gates under 9,000 but i must have missread them.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:37 pm  

Legionited wrote:

I actually calculate our average to be 7658, not that it makes too much odds I suppose. The sky games are in bold.

Harlequins RL 7,049
Salford 7,052
Huddersfield 6,572
Bradford 9,185
Wakefield 10,155
St Helens 8,003
Leeds 8,082
Warrington 5,628
Catalans 5,508
Hull 8,297
Hull K.R. 8,709

Sky results obviously have a big impact but last year the Huddersfield game wasn't on Sky and there wasn't too much difference in how many turned up. I think the biggest disappointment there is the Wire game, sure it was on Sky, but so was the Catalans game and we know what their following is like.

I suppose we were rather fortunate to play Quins on game 1 and pull in a decent opening game attendance.

With only Wigan and Celtic left, I reckon our final average will be about 7400. It's a shame we couldn't hit the 8k this year. It would have looked good for the franchise application. Hopefully we will hit it next season.

I still thought we might with wigan bringing a few and some good promotion for the celtic game, now the wigan game is on sky i would be happy if we match last years. I reckon having so many home games on sky (compared to one away) has knocked about a 1000 off our average.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:38 pm  

tigerman10 wrote:

i am surprised bradford are still averaging 10,000 i thought they had had a good few gates under 9,000 but i must have missread them.

Home attendance average over 11 league games:

Leeds - 15284
Goons - 14290
Hull FC - 12998
Saints - 11744
Bulls - 9973
Wire - 9164
Catalans - 9136
Hull KR - 8481
Giants - 7802
Tigers - 7658
Wakey - 5843
Salford - 4340
Celtic - 3645
Quins - 3475

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:03 pm  

pyeman wrote:

I still thought we might with wigan bringing a few and some good promotion for the celtic game, now the wigan game is on sky i would be happy if we match last years. I reckon having so many home games on sky (compared to one away) has knocked about a 1000 off our average.

If we somehow managed to get 10k to both games, we would only just average over 8k with 8018 so we can almost certainly rule that out.

I've given a pessimistic guess of 7000 for the Wigan game and 5000 for the Celtic game to get my earlier final average of 7400.

If we managed 8000 and 6000 respectively, we'd still only have an average of 7557.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:35 pm  

pyeman wrote:

I still thought we might with wigan bringing a few and some good promotion for the celtic game, now the wigan game is on sky i would be happy if we match last years. I reckon having so many home games on sky (compared to one away) has knocked about a 1000 off our average.

If I was a cynic I would say Sky doen this deliberately to sabotage our next application the way they keep bleating on about mergers and ground sharing etc!!!