For the man united and liverpool games there is a lot more than that in the home ends. I get plenty of free tickets to go and watch latics and the south stand is normally a third full.

Latics don't really have that many 'fans' in reality. I could name so many people who -

Get free tickets game by game
Get a free season ticket from their job and don't go but get counted on the attendance
Buy a season ticket just to watch some premiership football, they don't support the team
Go just cause their mates go
Have jumped on the bandwagon over the last few years
Switched from another club, would you want 'fans' like this supporting your club

Them taking 78 fans to spurs says it all to me really. They have the worst away support in the premierleague.

We were bottom of the league and our attendances went up, we are loyal fans, they are the opposite.

They are many football fans in the town who are loyal fans to other surrounding clubs but I don't think that makes it a rugby town.

I work in starbucks in the town centre so I chat with a alot of people, I also hear alot of people talking throughout the day, I only ever hear about rugby. The last time I heard about football was the other week and it was to do with the pitch.

In conlusion and slightly off-topic from my own post, it's great to see some fantastic crowds this year, strong teams from warrington and wigan will do super league good not only for the product but for the amount of people they get through the gates.

Some clubs need to sort themselves out, expecially Bradford IMO and also quins. Salford will probably be out next time around anyway. I just think stadia is the key, look what it has done for all the teams with new stadiums. Cas and wakey would really kick on like warrington with a new stadium.

Rd8:

Wigan v Leeds 17,883


Wolves v Wakey 10,723
Cas v Crusaders 5,299


Bulls v Quins 7,153
Les Cats v HKR 6,513
Salford v Hull 3,535


Hudds v St's 9,648



Total = 60,754
Avg: 8,679

The worst thing about the Salford attendance is there was a big following from Hull that was easily picked up by the Sky Cameras

40% of the crowd was probably Hull fans.

Not looking good for Monday then.

Rd. 9
Crusaders v Quins P
Giants v Catalans 5,926
HKR v HFC 10,089
St's v Wigan 17,500
Wakey v Cas 8,337
Wolves v Salford 11,467
Leeds v Bulls 17,244

Total= 70,563 (6 games)
Avg= 11,760

Best average so far surely?

yes, previous best was Rd1 with 11,155.

14,100+ at fc v warrington today

boosted by the postponed game though

some shockers today i'm afraid

bulls v crusaders 7853
cas v saints 6879
quins v rovers 2819
hull v wire 14131
salford v hudds 4014
wigan v wakey 14615

awaiting cats v leeds

im sure i heard eddie say over 9,000

didn't he say 8,900, could be wrong

8,230 catalan v leeds

My crystal ball tells me that Quins v St Helens will see a gate of 14,816

so next weeks average will be up. Shame that the evidence LIVE ON SKY will prove that the gate is nowhere near that.

over 30,000 for monday night footy in sydney,overall over 160,000 attended all round 4 fixtures...

yes, the stadium actually looking full for a change

come back to me when a SL game can get a 30,000 crowd during the season with another 250,000 people watching the game live on TV

Was a great round of attendances. Still a long way to go to get to the point where attendance is a major source of income for clubs though.

While a great attendence let's get it right.

Canterbury season pass holders got in free as did certain ticket holders for the easter show.

who gives a toss who paid.......that's a good crowd.

Given the Turds got 15,000 for one team in a city of 5,000,000, we will take it...

I know it was my point is to dally who said the sl couldn't get 30,000 for a fixture.

There's been a couple of sell outs at kc staduim, dw staduim and headingly (to name a few) while sl sides don't play at staduims like the anz or sfs if they did they could reach 30,000 if they had the same freebies.

hull fc have given out free tickets to junior RL players

sorry but the facts are the facts

thats a crowd SL would dream of. not to mention the TV ratings as well

and i was responding to the person that was mocking it

and souths arent our biggest crowd pullers.

the broncos get crowds of 50,000 2 or 3 times a season

and that includes 5000 - 7000 people who get in for free as members of the SFS!