How will they ever fill a 21 thousand seated stadium! This just shows how much this stadium chasing by the rfl is a waste of time

why would you care???

Oakwell has a capacity of over 23,000, 6000 in there would give us no atmosphere whatsoever.

A bit like Huddersfield then

I would say the East stand lower and the Ponte end would be for home fans with the North stand for away lets hope we are in SL and the 6000 gates are V the likes of Quins and Salford

abit like today then only heard salford fans singin

I usually start after 5 minutes or so but .............**********s

I reckon the weather possibly took 1000 off the gate so if you add that to what we did get then it wasn't far off the 8000 most were predicting.

It was actually a positive attendence IMO, because it was 2000 up on last years against Salford.

I thought it was poor, if half price tickets, all that marketing and good pr, rebirth of the Wildcats, a fantastic win last week can not get the fans in, then we have no chance.

roughly the crowd i expected, and sadly nothing else was a surprise either, we are im afraid in a worse position now player wise than we were when people were fleeing last year in droves.

ps theres a light bulb in the toilets though now!

It was a poor turn out its no good sitting behind the PC and moaning if we dont get a SL spot next year If we can average over 7000 we will have a real chance even if we come 14th

crap weather , crap away support , uncertainty still around . i think it would of put on an extra 1000/1500 its all about the experience and getting them back next game . what was the corresponding game attendance last year . also bear in mind that season tickets have hit a low

Last years attendance for Salford at home was just under 5k i think. so nearly 2k increase.

40% increase very good marketing and we don't have to pay some loser who came 7th on im a x factor celebrity on ice to sing for us.

They had less than a week to promote the ground offer. Also they have only had just over a week overall in-situ so a pretty good effort all round. The club can now look ahead to the next fixtures and plan accordingly.

It's not todays attendance. I think the club did as well as could be expected in the time given.
It is just that every time we try to promote the club the performance does not live up to expectations.
OK, I know there are good reasons but how many of the new faces will be there against the Bulls?

goes to show whos been to see wakey play at oakwell and who aint , pretty noisy last time round.

to be honest i think the warrington attandance will tell us more, and also to be fair discount offers like this will mean fairly deep pockets for mr glover, went today with a pile of optimism, but then again I do every week, but the ground in the last ten minutes told its own story, I bet there were no more than 1000 trinity fans in at the end, both sides of the ground were almost empty.

I suppose the point is people dragged a lot of others to the game today to get wet, downhearted and in some cases bored, we are an entertainment business and today was not entertaining, I go because Im a supporter and a fan of the club, those less devoted could no doubt think even a tenner is too much.

see you all at bradford i suppose.....

What a difference a roof makes. It applies to the complaints about a lack of atmosphere on another thread too. Although I admit to not being fully sober when we beat Saints at Oakwell.

Given the trials and tribulations of the past few weeks and the club ripped apart last season to be replaced by a young squad I thought the gate today was excellent, yes it could have been more but given the short turnaround.

Anyway lets see what happens when Wire come to Town its on Sky and I think we only got about 5K last season, if we increase by 40% each game that will put us in a great position crowd wise for a franchise.

I agree, against Salford, in such bad weather, after only a week of marketing the game, I don't think it was bad at all. Like you said, if we can increase our attendances each home game, compared to last year by a decent amount, it will be a good effort by all. I think the owner and his staff will learn from this game as far as marketing etc and will keep on improving game to game, lets hope we get some decent weather to help.

A tad harsh I think, but anyway tell me how many more you think you will bring to the Willows than we took today ? to a ground that has no cover on a winters day whilst it's p issing it down ?

Peed it down all morning and well into the afternoon. Don't think the crowd was too bad considering that. Maybe the pay on the gate backfired a bit as the weather would have changed a few peoples mind.

I agree - weather can put people off on the day, so we need to presell all our matches. At least the money is in the coffers, and people are more likely to attend if they have already paid.

Arsenal v Birmingham in the cup final and a Sunday RL fix in Wigan Vs StGI coupled with the weather plus other factors.

It's bad enough that the weather took a hold, the pitch was bad too, but the place was so gloomy and depressing and that's partly the fact that 24 bulbs in the floodlights, that's 25% of the total illumination, were out of action. Surely the players deserve better if not the fans. We really need to make the best of Belle Vue while we have it and not put people off visiting any more than we have to. And why was the tea bar closed?