yes it was,my mistake, thanks for correcting

Thanks Meast well that's a good increase from 7820 to 8948 coupled with the lower away following (c25%) compared to the previous season then we have seen a heathy improvement.

I also recall many opposition clubs fans commenting on the fact we have taken far greater numbers than previous seasons too.

We're massive

Of course we are!!! We're officially one of the big 3 clubs now.

[quote="meast"]without the celtic and salford games our average would be 8,948!

there are a few factors which hasn't helped our crowds, mainly friday nights etc
hull kr 6,346
castleford 6,010

were both friday night games played in apalling conditions, a regular sunday afternoon game would have seen 7,500 minimum for both games

bradford 7,982 friday night in poor conditions, with no more than 1000 away fans, normally bradford would bring at least 2,000 supporters if that was on a sunday,so i reckon we could have potentially pulled in 9,000 for that
also we've had 6 homes games that weren't played on our normal game time of 3pm sundays,how many other clubs can say this?

but, the biggest thing for me is that we finished the regular season above 11 other teamsregardless of how many season tickets we "gave away"[/quote]


IIRC our game with you at the Galpharm pulled in over 10k and that was a friday night game on sky?

We always take good support to the KFC

thats why i didnt include it, that was a good crowd for a friday night game,i was trying to highlight how friday night games usually have an adverse effect on our crowds

catalan crowds are most impressive this season, they have gone from 5/6 thousand in 06 to close to 10 k in 2009! shows expansionism works, i also think celtics crowds have been pretty good considering the shambles of a ground they have been in this year.

Considering the fact that we clawed our way back up from DIV 1 to SL and have improved our crowds year on year since, also a bleak financial year for a lot of people, it is a great achievement however much the tickets were for the past season.
In fact if Ken Davy could get a 12000 crowd at every home game I am sure he would bring the tickets down to £5 a match.

And how many speccies do you think Saints would have if they had been down in the basement losing more matches than they won. Be thankful you have been near the top of the tree for countless number of years and won many trophies.
If Huddersfield had the same success as Saints over the years, we would be getting far more than Saints are getting.

You shouldnt read into this years stats, as this year the recession as hit most teams, next year with your improving side and the trip to wembley you will see bigger crowds next year thats when you will see how well your doing, the futures bright Like at the wire with the smith revolution:)

Last years average attendance is totally skewed by the 15k odd who turned up on Free tickets for the Leeds game.

take that out along with poor shows from away teams and this seasons improvement is impressive