You may well have done, but that will be down to FC's great away following.

They always travel well to Cas as do us Rovers fans.

Doncaster are currently in a period of 4 weeks without a game...now that is fixture planning!

Superb crowd at Wakefield. I had been critical of the club and had spent many a time on here debating just why they were ever allowed into Super League. But their youth development and crowds recently have been very encouraging. Well done them.

What do people expect for ' dead rubber ' games ? , Cas's season is now essentially over , nothing to play for

So I presume Wakefield's decent crowd yesterday is purely down to hull fc then too?

In part yes, but also our fixtures are 35% up on last year and there were 1,000 more people
there than the same fixture last year.

Cas v Hull FC 2011: 7866
Cas v Hull FC 2012: 9050

So it's hardly a Wakefield exclusive thing having a good crowd against Hull FC (and it being up on last year too).

Maybe it's that the club charge home fans and away fans the same to watch the game ??? Or maybe because you can actually see the game as an away fan and not be a mile from the pitch ???

Hats off to Hull Fc for bringing 1000 more people down to your game this year then.

As a complete neutral in this and removing the debated aspect of Hull's away support...

Castleford vs Salford; 4,877
Wakefield vs Salford; 6,748

Got to be fair to Wakey, they're doing some tremendous work in increasing their average gate.

Has to said, our game was on the TV on a Saturday tea time as well. I think a lot of Cas fans are finding it hard to come to terms with fact that our crowds are better now.

A lot of credit has to go to Wakey with the way attendances have increased on the back of nothing special on the pitch. Over 5 years ago we was struggling to get over 3K at home Salford!

Hardly.

7642 Cas average
6944 Wakey average

Wakefield have also played Cas at home in that too.



That reported figure is wrong for the Cas attendance HTH.

Your fans pay for cheap season tickets!!!! Back up to the usual £180 bracket and your average would shoot back down.

Fair enough - what was the correct one?


"Usual £180"? Bloomin' 'eck, I paid £170 at Leyth this season!

Think your calculator is wrong. Wakey's average is above ours this season.

Current average attendances so far this season:
Castleford 7230 or 7352 depending on which figure's right for yesterday.
Wakefield 7941

Can guarantee I've added an away game or something in by accident when adding up the attendances





7352 then



7941...amazing what cheap season tickets will do for your attendances, not so great for finances mind.

I expect your figures be a lot more accurate than that Gronk, been a high earning Law man and all that!

According to my calculations (taken from SL stats) 6998 is our average to date. Castleford’s is 6538. To be more accurate we can compare like for like, the teams we have both played at home ( Hull KR, Hull, Bradford, Salford). Our average is 7820, your is 7345! Looking at both teams remaining home games I expect our average to be bigger come the end of the season!

Admit it; it narks you to see us getting some credit from the RL community after all these years of been put down for our attendances. Credit were its due, don’t you think?

Both your calculations are wrong (and I've used the same figures and same website). The ones mentioned above are correct.

Apology accepted. Mind I suppose you were too busy looking for your dummy to offer one!

I know that you and Mr Wright have always been close, but you are now joining his spin factory.
Our average is 7950 this season, just a few hundred higher than yours and yes, ST were competetively priced, an ideal gift for any disaffected fans of other local teams.
Perhaps you would like one for next season



BTW, we still have some of the big boys to come to BV so you will still be looking up to us at the end of the season

City of Wakefield population: 76,886
Town of castleford population: 37,525

Congratulations.

I especially love the way we are the big city club when it suits your argument. You're beyond churlish.

To everyone on this thread:

Cool story Bro.

Please don't let Wakefield/Castleford become as tedious as the willie waving contest between those two from Humberside.