148614 for the round so far,reaching the 200k mark....With 3 games remaining.Yes I'm talking about the NRL lol.

In and amongst the gloomy attendances so far this weekend, Leeds last night registered their 100th consecutive 10,000+ attendance for a SL Regular Round fixture.

As far as I can tell it's the first time that has been achieved during the SL Era.

Are the people of Leeds unaffected by this nasty "credit crunch"

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St Helens is falling apart, apparently.

Fantastic achievement that tbf.

Any idea how many seasons that stretches over?

Sure. The last time it dipped below was 25th July 2003 V London Broncos where the attendance was 8,231.

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Wigan also are carrying their best sequence forward at the moment - 69 and counting

We have sold 10.5k Season Tickets so far this season, so will be adding to that.

to add, Hull's last sub-10K crowd was against Warrington in 2006.

some worrying crowds around the league though, I think the economic situation is really starting to hit, and some clubs (including Hull!) seriously need to reconsider their pricing.

although I appreciate it was on TV, and with no away fans...4K at Cas, as supposed RL hotbed, who have had a fantastic start to the season is appalling.

yes forgot about bradford, hope they keep it up

TBF though it's only through a desperate marketing strategy that Bradford are having great crowds again, most clubs would have five figures if they offered entry at a fiver a game (which is what it probably works out at at £60 a pass). Fair play to them though, as said it's probably led to fresh merchandise sales, sponsorship deals etc.

Agree with the Hull fan about pricing, IMO £20 is a touch steep considering how skint the country is at the moment.

Re Cas, was it on Sky though?

Most games at this time of the year require floodlights to be turned on, at Craven Park they turn them off at half time they cost that much to run.

£20 when the club not only have those 17 players to pay but the rest of the squad, coaching team, back office staff, medical staff and private hospital bills for when players need operations...etc, then there is the bills and everything else. So I don't think £20 is that expensive to go and support your team, if they reduced it to around £12 like it used to be we'd be back in the National League (Championship) attracting around a quarter of the fans we get now!

Hmm, but at £12 would we have more support e.g. five-figure gates every game?

What you're saying makes total sense mate, just meant it's a tough balancing act - our gates kinda stalled after getting to 8000 in 2008, so is it because people are put off paying the price to get in, or maybe the East Stand extension and new stand will encourage more fans. Frustrating to think there's probably still another few thousand Rovers fans in Hull who don't attend yet.

So it had nothing to do with losing, was all a cost-cutting measure eh....

1021 in Toulouse for the visit of the Champions , obviously lots of interest there then

Stade RU at home to Brive yesterday in a sell-out. Kills the RL crowd stone-dead as we witnessed last year when there was a clash with a RU home game.

The Stade game was at 2pm, followed by the French RU v Italy, with the RL kicking off after both had finished. The rain may have beenmore of a factor.

Carlos Zalduendo was inteviewed in La Dépêche today and said that it would be quite difficult for Toulouse to go up to SL in 2012 as the stadium renovations will take 3 years and they don't meet the 12k capacity criteria. He also said that being in the championship has all the disadvantages of travel costs & time but none of the advantages of a tv deal - but it was the only way forward to get a second French club in SL. Sounds like they're planning to be in championship next year.

Sorry Matt , that would be like us saying we cannot play at home if , Man Utd , Man City , Liverpool , Everton , Bolton , W Athletic , Warrington , or the pies are playing same day as us

Some preparation for SL , with poor crowds they'll fit in quite well

Yes we know exactly how you feel Carlos

Oh goody

Carlos isn't worried about SL for the moment,far from it...

I think the weather had more of an affect than anything else plus of course Stade TO is massive down here and will always take the RL crowds in the RU season and of course the financial crunch is as bad here as it is in the uk and tickets for TO & Catalans are not cheap.

but as you say,poor crowds ? yes,they will fit in very well it seems

giants must have gone 50 plus 3,000 crowds now where's our praise



oh and just short of 9.5k at huddersfield today not bad for a club with no fans eh

Can't knock that - that's 3500 more then you took to the Challenge Cup Final in 2006.

oh i forgot there was 7,000 bradford fans there thats why the crowd was so good



hey roofs your time will come my friend

Sounds about right, figured they would with it only been 10-15 miles away.

makes a change from the 500 or so they've brought the last few years amazing what wins over the bottom 2 can do eh

Didn't they used to bring 3000-4000 years ago?



Remember attending your place (as a neutral) for the sell-out Semi-Final between them and Leeds in 99, amazing occassion.