Quote ="Saddened!"I'd be disappointed if we sold less than 10,000 season tickets personally. It's a massive jump from where we are now (Roughly 5,000 I'd guess) but given that no club in Super League brings more than the odd hundred fans bar Wigan and Warrington, it's hard to see the average going too high. 12,000-13,000 ish I would guess. Anything more would be a bonus, anything less would be a complete disaster.'"
We should certainly be aiming for 10,000 season ticket holders I think our figure is somewhere around 6,000 at present based on how the club dealt with the semi final allocation. The club have done significantly more than normal, they could do more but a lot is down to the public taking up the offers and trying the new facilities.
If we look at our average attendances at KR (discounting play offs) considering what pitiful amounts many away teams brought we still managed to average over 11,000 in each of 2009/2010 and that was with around 6,000 season ticket holders.
As long as the club get the away pricing right you would hope every team would bring increased support, on top of that Crusaders who brought few are also being replaced by Widnes who [ishould[/i bring significantly more, we also managed to average 16,900 against Wigan and Warrington over them two years so you would hope these would definitely sell out as should the historic first game in the new stadium (depending on who we play ideally Widnes I think).
Based on Cherry&White & SLstats when others moved into new stadiums Warrington had around a 40% increase, Hull 65% and Wigan 20%. An average of 12,000 represents just a 7% increase on KR that is a bare minimum, we should be looking for around 13,000-14,000 which would be about a 16-25% rise.
