Supposedly the gaps help the pitch by letting the wind get to it. Though you wouldn't have thought so with they way the soccer ruin it.

It's because they have the grass cut so short, no protection for the roots and then over using it. If it were just the RL team on it, they would have longer grass which provides protection and it would be like a bowling green.

large areas in upper west unsold

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22700 ish on at Wigan tonight

Well, 22701 to be exact



15,070 at Leeds making it 57,850 from the three game so far this weekend.

So to beat the record average with 14 teams we need 26625. With Cats, Bradford, Cas and Saints all to play at home.

The worst crowds for these teams would be Cats 5055, Bradford 7153, Cas 5025 and Saints 7728. Even if these crowds are that poor it's still 24961, I reckon Cats will get around 6k Bradford 7k, Cas 8k and Saints 8k.

Don't think there's much chance of breaking the record with 12 teams mind.

....and this from a sharks fan

With only three games played the aggregate attendance for this week's better than 8 full rounds so far this season.

Quality crowds so far. If only Bradford could get crowds like they used to, Saints should easy get 12k home fans, Cats stadium is reduced capacity and Cas-Wakey 'should' sell out.

If only........

From what I understand, for all the unreserved seats you have, you need to allow for 10% empty (rather than 10% of overall capacity). This is why they only take 2,000 off capacity rather than 2,500.

The more reserved tickets we sell, the more seats that will be available. Not that we needed them for a Thursday night game mind. But if we have a Sunday afternoon game, we should try having a big marketing push and sell reserved seats in the North Stand to Rovers fans and reserved seats in the Upper West.

Saints have (very wisely) decided to host the first showing of the new stadium plans etc at the ground before and after the game, so i think it will boost what would have been a poor attendance, it may even get towards 10k

Cas won't be sold out but they are optimistic of getting near to or over five figures (i.e. 10k)

It's quite possible Hull and Rovers could meet in the playoffs. Sure it would sell out of that was the case.

6208 at Cats last night, leaving 20417 with 3 games to go. Easy peasy.

Using the figures quoted on Skytext, it came to 89356, 644 short of 90k - very good considering that Bradford could only manage 6382 (worrying times at Odsal).

That's a shocking attendance at Bradford. Surely this is the time the fans should be backing the club now that the coach they've all been blaming for the results has been sacked?

I can't believe Bradford used to be as big as Wigan and Leeds. Clearly not.

I would love to see what the fans or Leeds, Wire, Saints and Hull would do if their team took a similar fall.

Our crowd went up despite being bottom.

we finished 2nd bottom in 08, 3rd bottom in 09...but increased our season ticket holders both years, and sold a record amount for this season.

ours, (hull fc), were quite healthy for the last two seasons dispite being pish poor

they'll probably go down next year now that we are doing well

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It should do, I was quite surprised that it didn't sell out this time.

Only thing I could think of was that the moving to a Thursday night messed alot of peoples plans up.

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Wigan v Warrington - The crowd compared to last seasons fixture was something like 6500 up. So the magnificent 1 gave them the record attendance...at least 3 of the games attracted lower attendances than last year, Bradford and the Hull derby being the most notable

That would have been helped by the fun bus form Tickenham.