: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:58 pm  

SimonBarrett wrote:

How do you work that out???

similar size towns travelling similar distances to teams who are below them in the league.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:01 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

similar size towns travelling similar distances to teams who are below them in the league.

And one team averages a significant number more.......do you not think that away support is generally a percentage of overall support??

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:04 pm  

SimonBarrett wrote:

And one team averages a significant number more.......do you not think that away support is generally a percentage of overall support??

i do. my point was that it unlikely that there were more fax fans at widnes, than wakey fans at salford, making salfords attendance even worse.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:15 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

It's not a surprise that a SL game got less fans than a championship game? I'm shocked as Halifax and Wakey will have brought about the same number of travelling fans. Salford will die if they don't get their crowds up.

Not really. Both Salford and Widnes pulled in crowds higher than crowds from some superleague games last season when in NL1.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:20 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Not really. Both Salford and Widnes pulled in crowds higher than crowds from some superleague games last season when in NL1.

Probably only higher than London I would have thought?

Given the crowds the last 3 clubs to come up into SL attracted despite struggling in their first season you have to admit that Salford's has been very dissapointing and the fans are not justifying the readmission of the club at the moment.

ps Celtic's aren't much better but at least they can blame their newness.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:32 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

Probably only higher than London I would have thought?

Given the crowds the last 3 clubs to come up into SL attracted despite struggling in their first season you have to admit that Salford's has been very dissapointing and the fans are not justifying the readmission of the club at the moment.

ps Celtic's aren't much better but at least they can blame their newness.

I agree mate, 3000 is dire and indefensible, what if it had been on tv? 2000?

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:44 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

Probably only higher than London I would have thought?

Given the crowds the last 3 clubs to come up into SL attracted despite struggling in their first season you have to admit that Salford's has been very dissapointing and the fans are not justifying the readmission of the club at the moment.

ps Celtic's aren't much better but at least they can blame their newness.

There is more to it at Salford to be fair. The fiasco with the stadium and an unpopular coach are not helping matters. Salford fans have seen it all before and many have had enough at the moment. If something positive was to happen regarding the stadium it would lift some of the gloom at the club but until then our crowds are only going to get worse.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:01 pm  

London - 3,512
There is no argument....crowds in London are crap and something, even it involves press-ganging drunken australians needs to be done.
Celtic - 3,645.
Can't really argue given their team have been very poor all year. Let's hoe the Newport move works for them.
Salford - 4,427
Of all the crowds so far this season, including the falls at Wakey and the Bulls, this IMO is the most wotrrying for SL and the RFL. You can blame the Pringleman and the results, but unless they do something along the lines of the Huddersfield marketing push, I see them at the most risk come the 2011 process for 1012.

Wakey....down but not out. They need to get people back to hell view and sharpish as do the Bulls and Odslum...

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:36 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

London - 3,512
There is no argument....crowds in London are crap and something, even it involves press-ganging drunken australians needs to be done.
Celtic - 3,645.
Can't really argue given their team have been very poor all year. Let's hoe the Newport move works for them.
Salford - 4,427
Of all the crowds so far this season, including the falls at Wakey and the Bulls, this IMO is the most wotrrying for SL and the RFL. You can blame the Pringleman and the results, but unless they do something along the lines of the Huddersfield marketing push, I see them at the most risk come the 2011 process for 1012.

Wakey....down but not out. They need to get people back to hell view and sharpish as do the Bulls and Odslum...

Salfords crowds will never be as good as Wakey or Cas, IMO these are two of the potential good clubs if they get new stadiums. Averages of 10,000 are not outrageous for these two.

: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:59 pm  

odemwingie wrote:

Salfords crowds will never be as good as Wakey or Cas, IMO these are two of the potential good clubs if they get new stadiums. Averages of 10,000 are not outrageous for these two.

I disagree. It wasn't long ago that Wakey had similar or even worse crowds than Salford's. But their crowds are not acceptable for a SL club. They have a poor ground, but that doesn't make it acceptable. In fact, it makes it worse for them as they can't even fall back on their ground for a license.

Wakey's crowds have dropped by over 1,000 as well.