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.

Fair point and as I said earlier, I applaud the schemes that we know were used by St's and Widnes, just as long as they are followed up with invitations to return again.

[url=http://retro.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=564666Last years attendance thread[/url started off with a 12% increase.....that was adjusted to 10% by Billy's pedantry and ended 58 pages later with nobody being the clear winner in what was essentially a pointless ing comp.
Anyhow, Magic SB put all the attendances into a nice table, so I'll post that here so we can see how every club goes during the season
[code
Club 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
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Bradford 6653 8563 11761 13967 8363 9677
Castleford 7068 6306 6633 7156 6616 7489
Catalans 7667 8363 9385 8400 6806 9159
Crusaders 0000 0000 0000 3377 4616 3668
Huddersfield 6335 6368 7709 7091 7386 7908
Hull FC 11065 11680 11885 12427 13731 13244
Hull KR 7848 7495 7786 8321 8234 8527
Leeds 15068 15197 14948 15092 15355 15774
London 1294 2213 2808 3131 3379 3436
Salford 4515 3125 5503 4754 4166 4467
St Helens 12051 11345 14087 7867 11191 11195
Wakefield 4351 7972 8172 6551 5983 6037
Warrington 9870 10633 11452 11108 10957 9221
Widnes 5635 6015 5977 0000 0000 0000
Wigan 14102 14545 16043 16125 15723 14088

AVERAGE 8109 8559 9582 8955 8751 8849[/code

I suspect next weeks crowds will further boost the seasons average attendances and Loiner81 will need to buy some wet-wipes as well as more Kleenex.....

4,000 May be pushing it but there was no way 1,500 empty seats. Minimum 3,000.
Regardless, our support was fantastic.

2355 is the figure been given by the club.

5382 Giants.

like said previous good following.

Don't spoil it, they have borrowed our fan calculator

No way on earth were there twice as many Hudds fans as Hull fans yesterday.