Good crowds at Hull and Leeds, should be close to 10k for Cas hull next week.

Compared with the same fixtures last year then there is little difference in the figures.

Cas up an extra 1000, but others up or down by a few hundred, so not much difference and still some games to play.

Is this the 2nd or 3rd year they have insisted on Saints v Warrington being on a Thursday? Is there a limit to how many Thursday nights a club can get. Personally I have had Saints v Catalan on a Thursday rather than Warrington as there would be less of an effect on a Catalan game.

Saints were top last year and Warrington doing well for the same fixture. They keep churning it out on a Thursday night. If you keep doing the same thing, then expect to get the same result.

Thursdays are crap, I don't even think the jury is out on this one, they are just poor nights to play. Put it on a Friday/Sat/Sun and regardless of league position you would slap 2 - 4 thousand on that gate.

It's a about keeping the customer happy and whilst the TV need a programme for Thursdays, these low Thursday crowds will continue. Saints adapted to Friday nights a long time ago, because of the nature of Sky putting is on a lot.

I dont see why they can't move the Thursday night game to Sunday evening at 6 or 7 ko.The super sunday football is done by then.

I think it's about filling the schedule.as you say Sunday has footy. Thursday has very little in the way of regular sports.

Perhaps they should have a Championship match on a Thursday and/or even a Championship roundup show.

are they doing monday night fixtures this year once the wendyball season is over?

Perhaps they should have a Championship match on a Monday and/or even a Championship roundup show.

Can anyone tell me why anyone should turn up and pay to see a RL game at all, especially if they have never been before?

Probably because they wouldn't be allowed in if they didn't.

I'd have no issue with a Championship game, but would it suit championship fans any better than SL fans?

While Thursdays might be a bad night for fans, with the right amount of notice they're a godsend for a club's commercial marketing department compared to Sundays.

I bet clubs with a focus on getting corporate customers through the door sell more packages for Thursday nights than they do for games on a Saturday or Sunday.

No real changes in attendances today a few 10's up and down in both matches.

So no viable difference to the equivalent games from last year.

Hmmmm

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Oh, oh, I know

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At least the ref won’t send off the wrong player

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I went to my first game because I was hassled by a workmate. In 2002 I paid £14 and saw London Broncos get Knocked out of the cup at Home to Castleford and I was hooked!
I believe that Heinz were "sold" a stand at Wigan a few years back for the visit of Harlequins RL and all their staff were given seats. Not long after, Heinz came on board as a SL partner......not sure if the two events are related, but it would be fair to say they probably are.
People and companies/sponsors will attend a new sport if they are invited to.

Don't know about this seasons Leeds game, but I know last year Hull had a Thursday night game and did not sell a single corporate box.
I'd argue they have a fantastic commercial set up.

Is nobody stepping up to keep an attendance thread in 2015?

Should be some good attendances this round.

Over 20k sold for the hull derby
Wigan sold out?
Close to a sell out at Cas.

Yeah great news, probs be about 21,500 or so for hull in the end, last I heard Wigan had sold 23,000 but that was a few days back so I would assume a sell out now. Does anyone know what sales are like at Widnes??

yes sold out for the wigan game

Castleford 7068 up 8,128
Catalans 7667 up to 9,130
Hudds 6335 down to 5,865
Hull FC 11159 up to 11,999
HKR 7848 up to 8,260
Leeds 15068 up to 16,080
Salford 4738 down to 4,008
Saints 12120 up to 12,515*
Wakefield 4351 up to 5,094
Warrington 9870 up to 10,129
Widnes 5635 up to 6,861
Wigan 14102 up to 15,608*
*Couple of attendances missing off sporting life but all in all, a good look at the half-way stage of the season with only Salford and Hudds showing a dip in attendances.

Are they compared to teams averages over the whole of the 2014 season? If so that does look pretty encouraging, especially as you would expect attendances to improve further as weather gets better and we hit the business end of the season.

As I've said before on Salford their announced attendances never seem to bare an resemblance to the actual number there so not sure how much you can read into it. Anyone who went to their game against wigan will know exactly what I mean!

Not sure how you are calculating your figures. Based on the same fixtures last season Hull are up from 11,755 to exactly 12,000. The derby attendance was up by over 2,000 and the Catalans attendance by around 1,800. Leeds and Widnes attendances both down by around 1,000. The Widnes game was our lowest regular season crowd since 2006.

Wigan are averaging about 13,800 at the minute. Apart from the Saints game our crowds have been woeful this season, and have steadily been on the decline since 2012. Without the sellout crowd for Saints we'd be averaging about 12,100.

Sporting life.