St Helens v Salford City Reds: 15,547
Wigan Warriors v Leeds Rhinos: 15,370
Warrington Wolves v London Broncos: 10,834
Huddersfield Giants v Widnes Vikings: 8,869
Wakefield Wildcats v Hull KR: 8,612
Castleford Tigers v Bradford Bulls: 8,054

Some good crowds there

how did we get more people playing Salford than the mighty and oh so scary Brigantes did against the champions? There must be some mistake?

Ditto.

I'm with Pete on this nothing shabby about any of those crowds. Wakey in particular seams to be a vast improvement on recent memory.

Waki were playing us that's prob y but what a fantastic crowd for saints as Salford don't take a huge amount of fans with them it's true wat they say build a new stadium and they will come, was very impressed with the look of the stadium, however I'm not impressed that we play u this week though saints were awesome once they got into top gear.

Why was it being claimed it was a sell out virtually then for many days? did that put off the 17,000 that had been well predicted and claimed in the media?

Not debating that it is not a good attendance for Salford, but I think the publicity stunts of how big and how great need to stop now!

Correct,
Who would have thought that Saints couldn't sell out their opening game at their new stadium or sell out their final game at their old stadium?

all those people interested such a little sport that gets a bbc slot on local TV at 11.35pm on a Monday night whilst Ski Sunday is prime time.

I wonder how many TV licence payers were at any of the ski-ing events covered in yesterdays show?

#travesty

Nah we are great and Puletua is big so sod off

Was our capacity the maximum it could be as we are still on a restricted capacity arent we?

Wigan played their first match at the DW against Cas in 99 which was the first game at the new stadium and also the last game of the regular season, and with Cas bringing a healthy away following, Wigan managed a rather dismal 13,900 (and lost), not forgetting of course that Wigan are the bestest fans in the world who are famous continental, especially in countries such as Peru, Angola, Malta and the Faroe Islands.. Adding to this their first home game of the following season pulled in just 11,200 against Leeds. And yes they sold out their last game at Central park against St Helens, had we played Wigan we would of done the same. Get a grip you mong......

You forgot Standish with Langtree

Using facts is cheating !!

I was told that the restriction was 17,200 rather than the 18,000?

Nobody claimed that. The first claim was that over 14,000 tickets had been sold and the second was that around 15,000 had been sold. The Chairman stated in the press that he wanted a sell out but at no time was a sell out ever claimed or reported. You are, quite simply, making that up.

Nice reflection on your vocabulary and the forum!

Well 15,000 sold and I heard 16,000 in the middle of last week are well above the actual figure, I just wonder if stating these figures puts people off walking up on the day, a friend of mine from Windle attempted to get a standing ticket over two weeks before the game and was told at the ground ticket office they were all sold out!

It's not making it up SaintsFan it is just a constructive comment, rather the kids in the playground arguing who may have got a bigger attendance than the other for this and that game! LOL!

to be honest with you, if the weather had been a bit warmer on Friday and Saturday evening, both Wigan and Saints would have got even better crowds. I can rarely remember being as cold at a game as i was on Friday night.

No they aren't! We sold 15,537! How is that 'well above' 15,000? And more fool you for listening to Internet speculation. Nobody ever claimed 16,000 had been sold. Nobody with the authority to claim that did so anyway.


We achieved the biggest attendance in Round 2. That is something for us to celebrate because it happened at the official opening of our new stadium, doesn't happen very often, and it would never have come close to happening against Salford had we still been at Knowsley Road. I think the figure on Friday night was around double what we usually get for a Salford match.

I know yeah, I am sorry

I just wish people would stop moaning, I mean it's obvious our average attendance is going to be a lot better than KR and obviously last year and Fridays attendance was a good crowd I thought, which was the biggest of the round. But I'm sure some Wigan fans will tell us that there were more Wigan fans at the DW on Sat that they forgot to count because the card/ticket machines weren't working for 40 minutes and the actual attendance at the DW stadium yes thats the DAVE WHELAN stadium was actually 9.6 trillion. We should just be happy that our average is going to increase along with revenue also we own our own stadium and there isn't a St Helens Athletic with more fans than us who we have to rent a stadium off.

Lets face it (and this isn't a moan) the crowd was very poor for an opening night. The opposition didn't help, would have been easier to sell if it were against a team that had supporters of it's own, but I understand the want to win at the first game and I think judging by our performances so far, we'd have struggled with the big teams.

It will be interesting to see how the crowds hold up there. Season ticket sales are very impressive, but will only generate a slight increase on KR if we don't build on it. If the 5,000 walk up was because it's opening night, I think we're looking at 11,000 for the 'normal' games, ie everyone bar Warrington and Wigan.

It's so hard to build a buzz about a team and a sport in the depths of winter like that. When it's dark, cold/raining it makes it feel like you are suffering to go and watch rather than benefitting from it. Fine for us already committed to the cause, but I'll bet there won't be many new fans going back if their first experience of Langtree and RL in general was a dour ground out victory against Salford in freezing conditions.

It really annoys me how we move to Summer rugby and the sport/club decided on Friday nights. Friday nights are great in the middle of summer when it's light and sunny and you can have a beer after work etc, but when it's dark, -2 and you've got kids it's horrible. My kids are both primary school age and when you are that age when it's dark, you naturally feel tired, especially on a Friday.

What the sport needs to do is cut the games down. Play 10 home league games and play only in the April to September region. Leave October for internationals and cut the play offs down to just the good teams (I.e top 6).

I think we are looking at sell outs for Wire & Wigan, 14k for Leeds/Widnes, 13k for the Hulls possibly Hudds, 12k for the rest which should iron out to around 14k, but Im hoping we can average around 14,500-15k, that would be a great achievment!