...for a single round of games: 79,173. Beats the previous record, set in 07, by around 1k. Good news for a change.

That’s a great bit of news (no surprise that hardly anyone has commented)!

The game is on its knees

So any good news should be applauded & used to try & further promote the game.

Very good news, a bit supprised really, was commenting at the game yesterday, a Leeds Bradford game would get 20k + but only 13k against Huddersfield, ok capacity reduced at moment but would be house full if we played Bradford, Cas, or even Wakey. Very poor away support from Huddersfield on a great day weatherwise, (not a dig)

I agree. Was just my poor attempt at sarcasm.

Achieved with London playing at home too.

Just the kind of news you want going into new TV deal negotiations

Excellent stuff and although most of the big boys were at home on Thursday / Friday and many were derby games, with temperatures soaring, tomorrows games will be pretty well attended too.

I think T.V executives are not naive enough to realise that Hull V Hull KR, and Wigan V Saints playing on the same day bloats these figures massivley, lets not kid ourselves that there were thousands of new fans attending, or that the respective home teams will get anywhere near the figures quoted in their next fixture.

2000+ at London is laughable, they only have 900 season ticket holders, Catalan bring ziltch, so they miraculously had 1100 new fans attending.

You can manipulate figures all day long, having watched Hull City at the KCOM for years and having a fairly good head for attendance numbers, can anyone explain how there were over 5000 empty seats at the KCOM?
The full East Stand hold 5000 so you work it out? The stadium didn't appear to have 5000 empty seats, not by far.

Whether the figure is "enhanced" or not, this is positive news.
Maybe a broncos fan can tell us whether they had a "decent" crowd down there.
Tbf, the crowd down there isn't going to break any attendance figures but, Hull, Warrington, Wigan, Leeds plus Cas on Thursday would all pull decent numbers.

Interesting statistic, and I'm surprised. Some good news for a change which, hopefully, can be built on.

I think London gave out a lot of free tickets to schools for the Catalans game.

Overall, nice bit of news for the sport though.

Sorry mate; in my defence it was early & I was dealing with a (small) hangover!

huddersfield sold out their allocation of tickets .. 1000 plus went to leeds. nut huge no but more than 50 what everyone seems to think we take.

sold out the 500 ticket allocation other week too for wildcats game

Western terrace holds about 4k doesn't it ? Granted there are some home fans in there, the "allocation" in rugby league rarely means much as there's near enough always pay on the gate available.

Great Achievement, specially give that London were at Home and an average of 15,404 for the other 5 games is pretty special. It's also dragged the season average back up to over 8,400,when it was languishing at 7,250 before......we need these 80,000 fans back every weekend!!!!

That'll be the 1000 extra fans Hudds too to leeds then icon_smile.gif

haven't seen the championship attendances yet, how were they? some pretty tasty looking games in there

Had Catalans been at home that day, we'd have had an even better figure to use.

If we could ever get Bradford back in the league alongside Toronto and Toulouse, you could one day have a round like:
Leeds vs Bradford - 20k+
Hull FC vs Hull KR - 20k+
Wigan vs St Helens - 20k+
Toulouse vs Catalans - 18k+
Warrington vs AN other - 10k+
Toronto vs AN other - 8k+

That was a great effort, it's a long way from Huddersfield to Wakefield and credit should be given for managing to get so many fans to make the journey.

it's easy to follow a winning team as wakefields crowds at hudds recently have shown

Why Toronto??
Cas Vs Wakey on good Friday (not a Thursday night) would of been over 11k for sure. We all know Thursday night sky games are poor for attendance figures.

Thursday night is no excuse for a local derby when nobody is at work the next day and nobody has to travel