Quote ="knockersbumpMKII"You refer of course to the 1950s, a time LONG before television was affordable for many people and to watch sport you HAD to attend in person. There were massively fewer leisure activities available to the working classes as there are now, so you cannot make any direct comparison to that era.
Lets not forget the times directly BEFORE SL for Castleford as an example and this isn't a pop but just to prove my point. A heartland team with bags of history, other teams within close proximity and you were mustering 4-5K per home game the season before SL started, hardly sell out crowds? Do you know how many 10K attendance home matches you've had from 1985-1996? I'll tell you 4, yes 4 games, the last pre SL 10K attendance at Wheldon Road was against Australia in 1992.
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Fair comment KnockersbumpMKII. But how many times have we been 10K+ at the Jungle whilst in SL? I'd be surprised if it was more than about 5 or 6....probably Leeds games.
