I think people mention the small attendances at Huddersfield for a few particular reasons. Without getting into crowds per capita, Huddersfield is a big enough town to be getting a lot higher crowds. Salford probably have a bigger population than Huddersfield, but they have never been classed as a massive RL City, whereas Huddersfield has. The big thing for me regarding the lack of support is that Huddersfield have lost a massive percentage of their support, it was there for a long time before it decreased and never recovered. The fans HAVE been there historically. The other mystifying thing is that Huddersfield have been a very good team to watch for a number of years, and still the fans don't come, despite some great deals financially. Add these reasons together, and that is why people continually question the poor crowds. There is no particular criteria on which your attendances are slated, but the reasons I've stated above have me scratching my head as to what has gone so badly wrong regarding the paltry gates for a club that really deserves more.

scratching your head? really? thought you were brighter than that- how were Leeds' gates before you started winning trophies???
how many years of no trophies and finishing bottom would it take to see leeds crowds diminish to a few thousand. What would it take to get them back.
First of all - we aren't a city. Secondly if you are taking population of Kirklees into account - you need to be aware there are 3 rugby league teams within the district. Thirdly - historically rugby league fans have been there in bigger numbers for all teams - see odsal crowd in 1954 CC final which could have had over 120,000 there. I would imagine most aren't still alive.
we aren't wondering why our crowds are low - we know - we just wonder why we get more stick than most given we have haven't been any more successful than any. Why our crowds of 7000 get lambasted whilst last season Cas having their best season for years are praised for the same number. why a team with a shiny new stadium, full of big names in 4th position get less than 3000 yet the jibes aren't forthcoming.....

Huddersfield a massive RL city?



huddersfield have lost a massive percentage of their support? how far back are you going here...1920's?! they will have passed away by now. in the 1990's it was in the hundreds.

alot of folk that go now will have been supporting in the 80's 90's when we were in the lower divisions and not having trips to wembley with thousands like hulls, saints, wigans, leeds

we have had a trip to wembley recently and we are doing well to to get to the 5k season tickets holders we have from basically starting from scratch. Obviously we want more, which club doesnt, leeds arent improving their crowds are they?

Who said Huddersfield was a city? Your overly defensive attitude towards fans of other clubs means you are vulnerable to posting nonsense, as you have once more. As for how big our crowds were before we started winning anything, 13,000 in 2003, the season before we picked up our first super league crown in 2004. Your inferiority complex means you can't see the sense in people's contributions, and that is why my valid points will be understood by the more open minded Giants fans on here. They know you could pull in crowds of 30,000 at one time, so you have lost a massive percentage of support you once had. Do the maths, your support base has disappeared for some reason, whereas ours was still very good before we were even winning trophies.

Silly boy, Huddersfield isn't a City, even you should know that. Have a look at Huddersfields crowds in the post war years, you would be surprised at how many they could pull. The halcyon days of the 50's would have seen your lot averaging double what you currently do.

Yeah and you can say the same for Leeds

I can also remember when Leeds thought 8k was a good crowd

i know Huddersfield isnt a city .. in your previous post you said Huddersfield has been classed as a massive RL city.

1950's! so will any of those who went then still be going now... if they are then they are doing well as most could be well into their 90's!

was slightly disappointed by the leeds turnout yesterday, i'm knocking the ones that did turn up as thursday nights are crap for fans, but considering the massive support they enjoy all over yorkshire and beyond then 1,285 is pretty poor effort from them!

we would be happy with a following like that but for a club that attracts the crowds at home that it does 1,285 is a poor number.

****waits for the inevitable****......

Not everyone!

cheeky!



obviously had a poor maths teacher eh Ivor?

1950's! so will any of those who went then still be going now... if they are then they are doing well as most could be well into their 90's!'"

Some of us are!!!!!

if you read my post correctly

it says 'MOST could be well into their 90's'

so i didnt say everyone did i.

Yeah but at their age they miss things Like that

...and there we were thinking there was only ONE Peter Pan!!

in 1985/86 season when huddersfield were in the old second division the average attendance was 678 ... so like i have said previous its like we have started from scratch and done well to get to the average we have now.

for what its worse leeds was 6928 on the top division same time.

wigan was 12515

Tonight will be the lowest attendance in SL this season. The lowest ever was a little over 1000 I think. -it could be close to that...

sure it will be on the VT !

is the band going tonight?

Understandable regarding the low turnout from us lot as we never travel well especially on a Friday night . the awful weather will have kept a few away too but I would be worried if I was a Salford fan, how long is koukash going to pit up with less they 2000 home fans turning up?
Maybe he's jealous of them like the rest of us

Salfords fans don't need to turn up cos they're gonna sweep all before them with koukash's money and don't forget what they tell us ....everyone talks About them cos everyone is jealous of em !!!! Maybe folk talk about them cos of all the talk he and the fans have done they're certainly struggling to do the walk !!!

I did say right at the beginning of this empire they were supposedly building to wait and see before spouting their mouths off .... Guess they should have done now cos they look very stupid and folk are laughing at them rather than being envious !!

i thought it was a good turnout from us actually, 200 maybe and great vocal support

that's right brearley, what we lack in numbers we are making up in noise lately... sadly though not enough of our fans are as committed as the regulars are in terms of away games- yes a lot have genuine reasons why they can't go, work,finances, family commitments etc but i do think that a lot who can go just simply can't be bothered.

i thought it was a decent turnout considering we'd only sold 70- odd tickets by wednesday, add in the fact it was horrible weather and a lot who might have considered going decided to give it a miss and watch on tv.

Away followings across the board have dropped, the biggest we've had was Bradford pre season, all other teams have been disappointing.

that's true, only Hull have brought 2,000 to ours this year and i think only leeds and saints did last year