A team can announce any attendance they want, but they have to state the correct amount to the Inland Revenue or could face a hefty fine for tax evasion

You're not a 4th placed SL team. No way!

Oh come on, Vasty, a guess the crowd thread with post match analysis of the figure appears on the Wakey board every time you have an home game.

However important and valid you believe the crowd issue is, it's clearly something that interests/concerns many Wakey fans.

And then moan about when the attendance is announced over the tannoy. I mean, it's not about speccies is it, but still the thread has continued about how the attendances must be fiddled..

1 St Helens 9 8 0 1 241 122 16
2 Huddersfield 9 7 0 2 226 123 14
3 Leeds 9 6 0 3 205 124 12
4 Wakefield 9 6 0 3 218 167 12
5 Castleford 9 6 0 3 217 183 12
6 Hull KR 9 5 1 3 208 167 11
7 Harlequins RL 8 5 0 3 230 162 10
8 Hull 9 5 0 4 200 189 10
9 Wigan 10 3 0 7 198 213 6
10 Catalans Dragons 9 3 0 6 198 252 6
11 Salford 9 3 0 6 156 305 6
12 Bradford 8 2 1 5 147 191 5
13 Warrington 9 2 0 7 151 274 4
14 Celtic Crusaders 8 0 0 8 110 233 0


I think we are! No one said we'd finish in 4th!

There are a number of elements that make a succesfull club of which attendance figures are one. However there importance is greatly exagerated IMHO.

This week was more a simple case of no one believed the figure, and it's not the first time the club have later revised the figure upwards.

Well they've stuck it on the official website as that, so it must be right. It's done on ticket stubs and turnstile clicks so you can't really argue with it. Plus, it's illegal to fiddle the attendance figures.

True enough which makes me wonder why we do it. i must say I bull my club up a lot and by and large they deserve it. However one weakness we have and one think Cas excel at is understanding PR.

As you say you can announce any figure you like so why give the lowest. What I suspect we have done is give the paying attendance. What we have not done is include all the freebies, comps etc - we never do. This may be honest but it's also plain stupid and a real flaw in the way the club projects itself IMHO.

If you could combine Richard Wrights flair for spin and Teds eye for a bargain we's have a great set up - STILL WE'D HAVE TO MERGE FOR THAT - NO!!!

There are a number of ways you can do it,

Paying attendance, or as you say through the turnstiles.

Health and safety, everyone in the ground including the players.

Or anything in between.

I know of at least one club who counts the St Johns ambulance as speccies, and no it isn't you

TBH I never said you WOULDN'T finish 4th.

I said you're not a 4th placed team. You're equal 3rd along with Leeds and us!

Haha

Fair point, well made!