Been shocking so far. Only 7800 at shudds tonight, including a big contingent from leeds, wire scraped 10k to see them lift the league leaders shield, only 7000 leeds fans at headingley last week and a meagre 12k for wigan v saints.

Is it a sign of the economic times or is everyone just bored of the play offs? Always seem to remember us having good crowds at the KC for play off games

Do pass holders get discounted tickets?

Didn't we get 16k v Bradford in 2006, or something like it?

we did for leeds, but you will find the vast majority of stay aways are normally pass holders who don't want to pay for tickets

You must have a good memory



Would be interesting to see the overall figures for the season

Absolutely loads of corporates strutting around Headingley last week: Didn't have a clue about the Rugby though.

16,087 v Bradford in 2006 (with Hull Fair on!)
12,140 v Huddersfield in 2007
16,291 v Wigan also in 2007
17,699 v Rovers last season

From what I am understanding of the previous board - the numbers of attendees at the games didn't reflect the overall investment in the team for the following season.

Basically regardless of how successful the team were at the end of the season the budgets appear to have been capped for the following season - lack of investiment

I was there! It was class!!

Attendance tonight was embarrassing.

It was indeed , I thought Davy would have had some sort of promo on for that sort of game .

Can he though? Maybe the RFL won't let him because all the gate money goes into a pot to be shared out doesn't it?

We did it at the Wigan play-off, I remember going in the West on a family deal.

Not that I post much on here but, out of curiosity, does the club offering the deal have to pay the difference to keep in with the spirit of the shared pot?

Eg: If the regular prices are 2 x adults = £40, 2 x kids = £20 and they get a free kids tickets family deal for £40, would the club have to pay for the "missing" £20?

Maybe they expected bigger crowds and, should the above be the case, didn't wish to foot the bill when wanting a cut of the total?

No the Clubs only share the total money taken for the games If I remember both Clubs have to agree the price for that game

TBH , I think it was a poor showing from the Hudds fans after what Davy has done for the club in the past.

May be a rethink is needed. The Rugby League usually markets quite well especially for Wembley, Grand Final and Internationals.

For starters I'd revert to a Top Six Play Off, as 7th and 8th are nowhere. I'd then market the initial games for £10 leading up to Old Trafford. Defo time for a change though if Wigan v Saints can only get 12,000.

I agree. Davy is stumping up a fortune to keep attendances 'artifically' up at the Galpharm. Make you wonder how long he will keep it up.

Until he's dead at a guess, then they're fooked.

Costing him over £1m a year isn't it?

Whats the old saying?...you can lead a horse to water...............

Crowd at Wigan looks pretty poor by usual standards.

Att 6,790

Embarrassing, really.

Jesus. We got 6235 against Oldham in the cup

yer but this was a super league play-off game not the 4th round of the challenge cup