I am not saying that we dont need to increase the crowds, we certainly do, but I know there are people who would start coming again when the competition will be Leeds, St Helens, Wigan etc, instead of Dewsbury, Batley, Hunslet etc....

The point I am making is that we were a championship side playing a championship side and we had 2479, whilst Salford v Bradford, two superleague sides only got a 330 more people through the turnstiles than we did.

2809...horrendous

Worth bearing in mind that the Salford game was a direct clash with the Manchester derby though. I know people will say people should watch the rugby instead etc etc but there's no underestimating just how big an effect it will have had on their crowd.

That just shows how stupid people running Clubs and our game are! The Semi Final was known well in advance so why not put Leed-Huddersfield or Sainst-Wakey on the Saturday and have the Salford-Dulls game on the Friday. Its not exactlt rocket science is it that Salford to go up against Man Derby Semi FInal will see a small crowd.

Even making it a different kick off would have helped - has there ever been a 4.45pm Saturday game before, particularly during the football season?

Not even correct, so pointless.

It's a reference to the crowd at the Salford-Bradford game as mentioned in a previous post.

Go on then, which part is not correct? It's in reference to Salford v Bradford

Oh and just watched the Superleague show. Harlequins gave 5000 free tickets away and only got a crowd of 4 and a half thousand.

Brilliant

1800 through the turnstiles, 300 diners.

Is it me or does that not add to 2100

379 over the fence?

I was dining and there were 260 diners in da room.

I believe that the point MA's Garters is trying to make is that we have inflated the attendance. Since we did it on one occasion for the Batley game last year FCHT supporters now like to believe that we do it for every game. This is because they just can't live with the fact that our average attendance at present is around 800 higher than theirs, even bearing in mind that they have just won their league AND promotion and we are going through a serious slump in form.

Next year they'll suffer with the cutbacks in public services. Who's going to transport their fans to the ground when they cut community services?

To be fair they're probably RAGING that our Cup game attendance will be the same as all their gates this year put together




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So that's how they manage to average 1600. 800 fans, 800 care workers!

Widnes v Halifax on Thursday should get more than 3000 even with both clubs current form.

Yes at the start , but how many after 50 minutes when Fax start to rip you apart , 4 games and apart from York how many points have you scored in the second half ?

Should expect nothing less from a Super League club.

Both current Championship club, same as you but were are both at the bottom end Leigh flying at the top... how are your gates going?

Yes both us and Fax don't draw what you draw , read my comment on the VT on the Widnes thread

So we only mention the league table when it suits, is that right?

Eh? Never not given Leigh every ounce of credit this season. As for us it doesn't lie on our recent form but I still believe we can do better and Fax even more so!