king of the shed wrote::lol: Compared to 90% of RL teams in the 70's they were massive.
It's all relative to the era the games were played, during Salford's best era the 30's (which were ended by Hitler!
) I would guarantee that average attendances would eclipse those many of today's top teams and I'd suspect that's the case for many other clubs.
In fact I've just found an old mag (not that sort
) from 1987 and it has all the average attendances from the previous year listed.
1 Wigan - 12,732
2 St Helens - 7341
3 Warrington - 4172
4 Castleford - 4758
5 Halifax - 4891
6 Hull Kingston Rovers - 4651
7 Bradford Northern - 4312
8 Widnes - 3840
9 Salford - 2826
10 Leigh - 4232
11 Hull - 5538
12 Leeds - 6393
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13 Oldham - 3915
14 Featherstone Rovers - 2606
15 Barrow - 2664
16 Wakefield Trinity - 2637
And a few others of note
Fulham - 684
Huddersfield Barracudas - 524
Oh and just to add Salford were at the 70's height in the mid 70's not the early 70's cockles.
