Wait until they start praising match officials!!

That will really blow your mind.

11800 at Hull KR today

10,728 at Cas

Can't remember who it was, one of the usual suspects, that claimed attendances would be up this year BUT only because of London.

So after one round...

Hull KR v Leeds 11811 up from 11526 in 2014
Widnes v Wigan 9269 up from 6223
Saints v Cat 12008 up from 11321
Wire v Salford 11864 up from 10120
Hudds v Hull 7737 up from 6370
Cas v Wakey 10728 up from 9182

Great start to 2015, cheers to all those in London for the hard work.

Four 10,000+ attendances and the top two highest average attendance clubs (Wigan and Leeds) played away from home.......yeah the sport is going to be semi-pro in a few years hahahahaha.

In fact had Hull and Wigan been the home teams you'd have had all 6 games with 5 figure crowds.

Must have been pushing 4,000 Hull fans today at Hudds. Totally packed out the away end today.

Huddersfields (lack of fans) was pathetic.

Feka posted a pic of the away end on Twitter which looks impressive, but 4000 is probably pushing it.

Feka Palaeeasina put a photo on Twitter with the Hull fans almost filling their end. I'd say 3,600 minimum there today. Outstanding turnout.

Huddersfield fans are pathetic. Only 4,000 showed up for their opener, even though Danny the Forehead was playing.

Great turnout from the FC fans today but the capacity of the stand was under 3000 with the sponsors drapes covering 2 of the 5 sections ,i would say about 2600 there,still a great effort

As pathetic as a gomper pretending to be a french dude ,get a life you weirdo

Hull FC end today at Huddersfield

I see we are picking out the average from this barrel of golden apples already.

As someone has said Hull FC / Leeds and Wigan yet to open their accounts at home.

Catalan too normally get decent crowds. So next week we will hopefully see this push on.

Average of 10500 this year, slightly down on last years average. But a great start to the season for the clubs, lots of revenue and something to aim for as it gets warmer.

Also no real blow out scores. I know being nilled is not great (especially when I have brough as my kicker in fantasy league) but it was a fairly tight game with only 3 tries in the whole game, which indicates Huddersfield heads did not drop in defence.

spot on, was going to say the same thing!

2 sections closed with the coverings, id have said over 2k too but no where near 4 or even 3

The Pink Link South Stand is usually allocated to away fans and seats 4,054

It's up on last year's opening round actually.

Thanks to London, who's fans must have travelled up north en masse this weekend.

It will also be interesting to see what numbers the championship puts up next week.

East stand at Leigh almost entirely sold out

I assume you mean the west stand?
If thats the case then the north stand will be sold out as well,that will leave Bradford fans to hopefully pack out the south stand.
If the east stand is opened as well then that would be an amazing achievement by the club

...was probably me and I'll stick by it. If you want to get all hot and sweaty after the opening rounds then good for you, but I'll wait until we've passed just 6 games with freebies and "tenner for 2" offers before declaring "the new era" a success if that's OK with you?

Opening round 2015 1.42% up on 2014, or...if you're a pedant, 3.4% down discounting the 3,000 freebies at Widnes

and for the record, I seem to recall the 2014 opening round attendances being 12% up on 2013's......did you run out of kleenex then too?

No doubt Billy will soon be along with his more definitive comparisons over the seasons, but a solid start for the comp and some good marketing initiatives utilised by some of the clubs.

You are indeed correct, last years average for the round was 10400.

This would be presuming that those fixtures last year had no free tickets or offers too.

Considering William added a ***free ticket/discount ticket to most higher attendances last year it's fair to say we could also look at last years fixtures as similar.

Nah. Surely, his utter and complete demolition and disgrace for claiming the Club Wembley tier was empty for the England v New Zealand World Cup semi-final when in fact it was packed will mean even he will have the good grace to keep his head well and truly down for the forseeable future?

More like 2500 but good support all the same its been years since hull had a following like that used to be the norm, well done

Widnes v Wigan - biggest crowd in 25 years wasn't it? Guess what, that had nothing to do with London being relegated.
Record crowd at Hull KR today. Guess what, that had nothing to do with London being relegated.
Biggest Cas/Wakefield crowd in years wasn't it? And guess what, it had nothing to do with London being relegated.

I'm pretty sure the other 3 games weren't affected by London being relegated either.



Whereas you and your gomper in crime wouldn't have still been wiping yourselves down had this weekend gone badly?




Oh, that didn't take long did it.





An increase is an increase and considering Wigan played away after pulling over 16k last year at home we've done extremely well.



I'm sure he'll try his best.