Population Leigh 46,000
Population Bradford 528,000
Not bad being the second best

Well said Rivi !

You kinda missed my point, I wasnt arguing that Leigh are not the 2nd best supported team in the division I was arguing that the capacity of 3000 at Sheffield will not be challenged when Leigh play there.

True. Even if we take 1500 - 2000 (highly unlikely) they should still get in!

I apologise Greg.

Ive just checked out Bradfords away crowds for the regular season and there is a very good chance that 3000 will also be more than enough for when the Bulls roll in to Sheffield.

290,000. The Bradford Met district is 500k, but that includes Keighley, Ilkley and a whole bunch of other places that aren't Bradford but happen to have the same council.

Small towns with one employer where everyone leads the same life always do better percentage wise for crowds.

Leave Featherstone out of this.

When the bulls fans rolled into Wakefield for the million pound game, they struggled to bring 2,000 fans, 3.000 for an away championship game even at Fax is pure fantasy.

3,000 should be enough but still you'd expect a better venue than this. I don't know Sheffield so may be wrong but I find it hard to believe that the top 3 football/rugby venues in one of the biggest cities in England are Hillsborough, Bramall Lane & Sheffield Hallam University PE department playing fields. Still, can't be worse than Owlerton I suppose.

Just checked the place out. The pitch looks great and the pavilion is very smart. If they build the temporary stand which is not a big deal then it will be a very good move for them. The only thing that may prove a problem are the low floodlights but I bet there are a lot worse in a lot of other stadia in our league. Good luck to them.

Not if it happened.

Lets not bring Wakey in to this though as i am sure every Championship fan breathed a sigh of relief when Wakey stayed up because their traveling support would be more akin to Dewsbury than Bradford.

I don't think SL clubs would agree with you regards to Wakefield's away support, but it's good you stick up for your second tier counterparts, not that I would take anything seriously regarding attendances from a Halifax fan

No no you are right, I could almost hear Sl clubs Chairman rubbing their hands with glee at the thoughts of once again getting visited by the Wakefield traveling army rather than Bradford.

I'm glad you realise I'm right, btw which particular SL club chairman are you referring to?

Surely the crowd that day totalled more than 3500.

You had the whole western terrace to yourself which was not quite full, which holds approx 2000. add to that the few fans dispersed in other area's of the ground and there you have it, based on what the standing area holds not guesswork from gregory flomo's booits

budgie luv living in Hartlepool I can see why anything at all seems funny to you, It's nearly as funny as where you finished up in the middle eights last season or looking out of the bedroom window across to Seal Sands

Well Oldham have got their ground sorted for next season, they're playing at Bower Fold in Stalybridge. A shame it's not in Oldham, hope they get the Whitebank up to standard quickly to get back to Oldham. Looks a decent ground though.

10x better than Sheffields. It actually looks like a ground, unlike Sheffields park pitch

It looks very tidy indeed. I'll look forward to going there, hopefully.

My lord, wait till Rangi and co turn up there they'll be throwing the toys out of the pram in no time.

I bet they can't wait to play at such amazing stadia

Well it will be full.

eye because playing at Wakefield, Cas and Hull KR is quality..