The CEO of the RFL is also Chairman of the RLIF at this time.

It's interesting that blundering CEO Nigel Wood got the RLIF job ahead of the ostensible Chairman of the RFL, the empty suit known as Brian "look at my connections" Barwick.

He's a bad example and figurehead whenever I hear or see his interviews. He seriously needs to go. A bad stereotypical image he gives to the game.

13 games into the comp, 166,447 in attendance giving an average of 12,803 (16,269 for the optimistic double-counting fringe) and tracking well against previous RLWC's.

disappointing gate in East Hull again tonight.......really thought with the new stand open they would have filled it twice.

When did Nigel Wood become Chair of the RLIF? I thought it was Scott Carter.

Under a 1000 tickets left for tonights game at Leigh. Capacity limited to 12005, but should be a great atmosphere at the LSV.

Three games in Hull was just too many. It'll be close if not a full house at the KC next Saturday. With the two Craven park games that'll be approx 40,000 fans watching World Cup games in the city. Add in, many Hull fans won't set foot in Craven park even if Rovers aren't playing. Rovers only average 8000 for their own games and RL fans from other cities have always been reluctant to come down the A63 to Hull as 'Its a long way'. Should have been one game at Craven Park, one at the KC and the other should have been played at Doncaster IMO.

I think the France vs PNG game should of been in France personally

Hull is not on Mars, local suport was excellent. This is the RL World Cup, which is open to all, so get your to the game instead of moaning. Me and mine will be at the 3 Hull games, Headingley, Wembley and the final. It just takes some effort. There were a few fans from other clubs I talked to, but nowhere near the numbers at Huddersfield so to criticise the gate in East Hull, is in effect criticising the wider RL community for poor support.

I think Hull need to accept some criticism for poor gates for the 2 games in East Hull.

How were they poor ?

Not enough people turned up or bought tickets that were needed to make them good.

Look, it's Hull so they have to find something to moan about. How many of the members on this board went to the match?

I think 3 games in Hull was asking a bit much. By some past World Cup standards, over 14k for the 2 games wouldn't look too bad. Of course, there might be some embarrassment that our game seems to be more popular in Bristol, but I suspect that will be short lived when we enjoy seeing a jam packed KC on Saturday.
Incidentally, isn't it a bit thick to take a double header crowd and simply divide it by 2 to get an average (unless you're deliberately trying to find a way to show a low average)? I can see that it's difficult to be exact, but there were certainly 10s of thousands at the Millenium for the second game.

Don't start that up again.

well it was announced as 45k for both games, might as well go with that. No harm in going for the positive angle.

I don't think the crowd was bad personally.

3 games in Hull will have put a few locals off (as has been said, this was probably a game too many). And Monday night will have put a few non-locals off, especially with another game there on Saturday.

Hull might not be at the opposite end of the world, but equally it isn't necessarily an easy place for everybody to get to and back from on a week (and work) night.

All told, i wouldn't have expected many more than that, and i certainly wouldn't say it was overly disappointing.

I think it's shows just how well attended the tournament has been as a whole, so far, that a 6.7k attendance for PNG & Smoa is viewed as 'disappointing'.

6.7k prior to the tournament, I think we'd be happy.

Also, there was talk a couple of months back of an attendance of 15k for the game at the KC as being about right, that one's set for 22k+.

I suppose it's a sign of the success of the RLWC so far when we're talking about a 7k average at Craven Park being a disappointment.

Exactly. The precedent was set in that brilliant first week, but being realistic, we'd have taken 6.7k for this game a month ago.

Before the World Cup I would have said you would be lucky to get 5,000 at Leigh for Tonga vs Cook Islands and it will be comfortably double that!

Looking forward to it tonight, should be a cracker, plus it's my first visit to the LSV.

I was slightly disappointed with the crowd last night. Seemed mostly Rovers fans, not sure CP has attracted many out of town supporters. Maybe it was a game too many. Also none of the Hull fans I know (fairly small sample admittedly) were planning to go to the CP games. Not sure why

Well I'm an Hull fan and I was there last night and saw plenty of others too. As has already been stated, by the weekend upwards of 40k supporters will have been thru the turnstyles in Hull. That's not bad considering that most of them will have been local, especially the 2 games at Craven Park.

Indeed, I think Hull as a city venue has been fine. Possibly 3 games is a push but equally the attendances have been good so no issue

Even Hull v Hull KR on a Monday evening with bad weather over the weekend would not have been that well attended in comparison to other games.
Lets be happy with what we are getting which is on the whole, well attended, entertaining and close games.