My point is perfectly valid and I mention my personal circumstances only to highlight the point. Though as earlier on this post, I think promoting the club further south should be a priority for us, we are definitely 2000 light considering our success.

30 miles south of London and yes I drive, like the hundreds of thousands of footy fans every season, I travel. I'm not having a pop at people who can't make it, I'm saying if you don't simply because you have something else more trivial to do then you should think again. I spoke to a Warry fan the other day who didn't go the last home sky game because he'd rather have a few beers at home and watch it on telly, thin end of the wedge in my opinion.

Good work Matt. That shows we achieved increases against nearly all our opponents.

I think the London figure is down because there was a big promotion for last year's match with free tickets etc. Still, for the first game of the season it's a shame we didn't get a few more in.

The Leeds figure is particularly poor but I think that demonstrates cross-pennine matches on Friday nights in dodgy weather is not a good idea.

The Hull FC one is the stand-out though - can't quite work out that one as I seem to recall they brought a decent number over, can't believe the away fans could drop by that much.

The Catalans drop might purely be down to that one being on a Monday night. Even so, it was still only a couple of hundred below games against the likes of Leeds, Hull and Huddersfield who really ought to be bringing alot more than Catalans do!

The other disapointment is that Wigan wasn't a sellout. I missed that game myself due to holiday but could see from the TV that the home areas were not 100% full - what was the away end like?

Still, increases in 10 of our 13 home games and an increase in overall average. Quite good, but could do better I think.

One further thought - hopefully with so much spare capacity, the club will recognise this is not the time to be increasing prices. A prize freeze and a big push to get another 1000 through the doors regularly is surely the way to go.

I think the Catalan game was well attended really especially for our first Monday night match & considering the away following for Catalan never seems to be much more than a mini bus full. The Wigan game was a ridiculous time 4 45pm when most people are having tea.

Th wigan game was moved from the Sunday too, i was going go it originally then the bugger moved it to Saturday, if it had been half 5 or a 6 kick off i would have just made it but 4.45 was too early.

The Wigan game was a few days after Saints away - after which we more or less knew we would be LIKELY to end up second in the table regardless of the result that day - and Wembley was on the horizon so people were saving dough. It was also televised.

Given all those factors I thought 13,800 was a decent attendance - a sell out would have been less than that last year.

Competitiveness always makes an impact too. I knew I couldn't go V Huddersfield last week no matter what because I was out of the country, but Widnes away this week brings about a dilemma. At the start of the season (or indeed immediately after their promotion was confirmed) if you had asked me what fixture I was most looking forward to this year I would have said "Widnes away". However, now it has come around it is a meaningless fixture, and we've got two home play off games to come plus hopefully the Grand Final, and possibly an away match too depending on week one and two results. I won't be missing any of those games (appropriate days off work were booked months ago so I'm safe no matter when we play) but that makes a dead rubber at Widnes in the meantime an expense I can do without. I might still go, but I might not either. We'll see.

Surely it's understandable why anyone would choose to swerve games - home or away - for cost reasons when they have little or nothing riding on them though? Saville Row wouldn't obviously, because he's a true fan, but I'd wager the crowd on Sunday - and the travelling support in particular - isn't as big as it would have been if we played this fixture earlier in the season.

Does anybody know if we get some sort of financial compensation for televised home games ?

We have been televised an awful lot this year.

If you do go, will you wear this? it's boss lar

That T-shirt + medal = Saville Row's match day attire.

How much impact do the televised games have on attendance? If someone had solid figures you might be able to put a case for some compensation. I've gone through my list again though, and we don't have the most home games, I accidentally included our Magic game. Here's the list to bore everyone with:

Televised Games (inc. Magic games as Away for all)
Warrington = 13 (5 home)
St Helens = 12 (6 home)
Leeds = 12 (5 home)
Wigan = 11 (6 home)
Bradford = 9 (5 home)
Hull FC = 9 (3 home)
Hull KR = 8 (3 home)
Wakefield = 7 (4 home)
Widnes = 7 (3 home)
Catalans = 7 (2 home)
Huddersfield = 6 (4 home)
Castleford = 6 (1 home)
Salford = 5 (2 home)
London = 4 (2 home)

I'm wondering if I have a Cas game the wrong way around, as shouldn't there be at least 2 home games for each team?

I may have been a Northerner in exile for 30 years, but Im still not a limp wristed, shandy drinking Southerner. I do know you're taking the !

Ha ha that's what it will be. Thousands of Warrington fans stayed away because they didn't want to miss out on their wife's / mum's culinary offerings...

"Gonna give the match a miss tonight muckoh, those oven chips are never as nice out of t'microwave"

When you tea at 4.45, surely you mean late lunch or early dinner, unless of course you actually had earl grey and sandwiches one and three quarter hours late !

You my friend, have officially, become Southern

Clubs can actually choose to report either the actual number of spectators who have come through the turnstiles OR report the attendance based on the number of tickets sold. They can also change which method they choose game to game. As an example, we've had a number of games where the attendance was published as 13,024 (Pre extension full house) where there have been empty seats. Maybe we've reported more of the former this season?

Actually you may be right, I've noticed some changes in my behaviour in recent months.
I no longer decide which pub to use based solely on the pint price.
I rarely speak to the guy next to me at the urinal anymore.
I've stopped calling women ' love' and call my boss Guvnor..
I've discovered you don't have to have chips with everything.
There are actually warm days when I doesn't rain.
And now my wrists are getting limp !
Oh no! I'm turning cockney !
That's it I'm moving back, costs a bloody fortune in petrol anyway !

Yes , being an old bu**er , i like my cucumber sandwiches at a set time ! I don't eat at Maccies or KFC !
4 45 kick off is neither afternoon or evening .

Widnes Vikings

W 46 - 12

Home
5/4/2012 and

W 68 - 4

Etihad Stadium That's definitely 2 games on SKY...

Yeah well done.

But yeah, I know I've missed quite a few home games and majority of away games due to not being afford to go. I imagine same with alot of people. Long asaverage attendance keeps going up it's good, especially with alot of times where away fans don't come in high numbers.

Here are the figures published in a table for all teams in SL.

[url=http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_10175-wigan-top-average-attendance-table.html2% increase for Wire[/url

Credit where credits due for Wigan top again, although it is down on last year. Notable improvement for Wakefield too at 25% increase and Saints although it is skewed due to their allergic reaction to leaving the town of Sintellins. Salford & Widnes are up but surely should attract more than they do and Leeds as strong as ever despite their poor league form in comparison to recent years.

Some body once said that the geographical path from the south to the north of England can be defined by the thickness of gravy.
Eg. In London it's jus,by the time you get to Newcastle it's that thick you have to spend half an hour heating it up to get it liquid form.

1000 extra at £18 (prepaid price) = 18,000 x 12 = £216000 (cant get anymore in the Saints game).
£1 extra per ticket x 10,000 = 11,006 x 13 = £143078

Budget to "push to get those 1000 extra everyweek = £72922

Sounds a lot but could they do it. A 300% return (£210k to £70k) on marketing is a BIG return.