I watched some of the test cricket. There were more in my front room. I blame the rfl.

Lost on me. Obviously.
That, or you're easily pleased.
Couldn't care less which of the two.

If the game was played on Sunday afternoon there would be fewer empty seats.

The crowd last night was higher than the last Saints v Leeds game at Knowsley Road.

Saints do make it a bit expensive. I was sat in the stand you see on TV in the corner with practically a restricted view and it was £24.50!

When will the penny drop regarding attendances?

The game sold its soul to TV so the clubs had guaranteed income and they sold it based on their cost base didn't they

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Attendances are extra income, if they did their sums right







Sky couldn't care less how many people are at the stadiums, eyes on the box are all they are interested in.

I can't understand why people , especially on this site ,worry about attendances, the game still has far bigger problems.

Sky do care about stadium fill, and failure to achieve it will cost the game

They may want all the grounds to look full, for the benefit of the cameras but, their primary concern is subscriptions and advertising revenue, plus having something to show to the armchair viewers.

Time they had a dedicated lane on the m62 on Friday nights for super leage fans only, that will increase attendance greatly.

Your not wrong! I've given up on Friday away games from Hull, and I know my own club contributes to that by playing on a Friday too.

Your logic doesn't make sense, attendance's are much higher than pre sky TV deal.

It's Saint fault they built it to big?

Oi! You! Yeah you! Take yer facts and yer logic and sod off.

Good idea Thursday nights as well !

One day people will read and understand.

I couldn't care less if attendances are up or down, and that was never stated. READ the first line again and understand what it says.

And that was pretty much the response I got! Never mind.

Clubs sht at marketing
Ticket prices
RL crap at promoting tne game to new audiences
Poor scheduling
Apathy of fans

Take your pick!

I honestly think it's mostly the first one.

I think clubs, in general, are terrible at marketing the games. It's as if they think sticking a sign up a few hundred yards down the road from the ground is marketing.

The clubs seem to put all of their effort in to marketing season tickets then give up for the rest of the season. But the frustrating thing is they can do it when they put their minds to it, the other week Hull did loads of marketing for the derby, groupon deals, social media advertising etc and got the biggest Derby crowd for 5 years despite it being on TV and our team being poor. Yes it's easier to market a Hull Derby than every other home game we gave, but we seldom bother for the rest of the season.

I also hope the top8 clubs give marketing the super8 games a real go, surely it isn't hard to advertise a ticket for 3/4 top of the table clashes with the added carrot of being given priority for CC final (if your clubs still in it) and playoff tickets. If we can't get big crowds in for those games we may as well pack the sport in.

Nothing new there every post he makes doesn't make sense!!

I agree with the opinions on Marketing, even at Leeds one of the most suscessful teams in the league. We rely solely on our core support of 14-16k and our only marketing is a banner outside of the ground and emails to people on their mailing list.

We could be touching 20k most games IMO, if we reached out to sport fans and created a presence in the city outside of headingley.

You think??
There's a union club not far from mine- they could market their arris off it still wouldn't make me go watch. I'm forever getting offered cheap tickets for football- never been, never will.....

I think your point is valid, we all have core support, keeping that is the only way to sustain growth, get people into the habit of regular game attendance & use offers to get them to bring a friend or family member who may then get into the habit of attending its slow but realy the only way to grow. At KR we get a lot of family groups at our games as we tend to play most games Sunday afternoons, I would worry if we had to move to many games to 8pm fridays as our friends across the river have done as 8pm is far to late for a lot of our crowd with young kids in tow. Would that game have got a better crown Sunday afternoon? on TV or not? or do certain clubs target different audiances, 18 to 30,s for example.

I must have imagined that A board I saw on Kirkstall Road in the HSS car park then.

The Rhinos should work harder at getting mentions in the script of [iDCI Banks[/i.