Context is sometimes helpful. The first weekend in September, across North America, is the biggest of the holiday weekends. Everywhere, kids go back to school on the Tuesday. So it's the final blowout weekend for families to do stuff. People with holiday cottages leave the city. Many families in Toronto go to the Exhibition (fairground, food and ag fair, live music, etc), which is where the air show takes place and why there were F-16s zooming over Lamport Stadium during the game.

We were actually delighted that we got so many fans out on the holiday weekend, given there were so many other choices for people. Personally, two of my friends entirely new to RL came back on Saturday for a second game, and one is considering season tickets for next year.

Picking apart attendance at every Wolfpack game has become a spectator sport all its own even though, as you correctly note, we pull more than most other Champ and some SL teams.

Lamport is a community field. In winter there is a cover over the pitch - it looks like a giant tent - so that sports teams can continue to use it for indoor football, lacrosse and so on. I think the cover comes off in April. If I were an away team, I'd be quite happy to avoid playing here in the cold. However Toronto FC play outdoors as early as the end of Feb/beginning of March so it's not impossible.

We don't care mate, TWP will be a dead duck in 2 or 3 years. Supposedly 7-8000 fans but the sound coming from them is like there's 70-80 fans in the ground. It was rockin' at the Shay earlier today with just 2,500 supporters but with 3 times that number in Lamport they should need to be turning the microphones on to close to mute to keep from breaking them. Toronto doesn't give a monkeys about RL, just a day out in a beer tent.

Fax got stuffed today by a far better team, but let's see who's still around in 5 or 10 years time?

I really feel you need to be weaned off the M62 clothcap world view pal.
Welcome to the world beyond Featherstone and Leigh. Yes a big wide world of diversity and culture.

Mock all you like. I watched the game and the stands were nearly full. I cannot understand why you types are so jealous.... Keep going because it won't stop progress.

CoID was asking a question, I answered it. I wasn't talking to you.


Keep reading the tea leaves.