How bloody dare you poms increase attendances and TV ratings.
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Pull your heads in ffs, this is a norvern sport and will remain a norvern sport.

For bloody shame.

I see teams like Warrington, Hull FC, Wigan and co had a boost moving in to their new grounds and since then have built even higher, for the knocker, do we disregard this?

Sorry, but the troll is an a grade moron.

There were 2,381 in attendance today at the London V Castleford fixture. This compares with the 4,128 who attended the same fixture last year.

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There were probably more paying punters there this afternoon than last season.

I bet there is - and a few more on top of that. We normally get a good crowd for Leeds games.

I agree, I reckon Saints will get a good 16k+. Leeds are a top attraction from a RL POV, they generally have a decent away following, it's also easier/100 miles closer round trip for Leeds based fans to get to Saints than for Hull. Given our recent form fans might not have wanted to spend 6+ hours on a road work congested M62 on a Friday night either. That they did travel in decent numbers is a testament to them and they were richly rewarded(get inicon_biggrin.gif )

As for attendances in general I think it is hard even to compare a whole season with another, there are far too many variables involved to be able to make direct comparisons.
As an example just look at the season ticket prices for Hudds & Bradford over the last couple of years, that skews the attendances massively.