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Not sure how they work out Toronto, who haven't actually been at home yet, and their nominal 3 home fixtures were around 1800, 1400 plus over 7000 for a double-header. Will be interesting to see their first home crowd at Lamport this weekend. Then, of course, it's us, so obviously that will be a sellout.
That said, the attendances of the bulk of teams are depressing reading. That's roughly only 30K speccies home average the whole division. Makes it all the more creditable how comparatively high the standard of rugby produced in the Championship sometimes is, given the severe financial constraints these figures, and the lack of any real RFL funding, must impose.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:That said, the attendances of the bulk of teams are depressing reading. That's roughly only 30K speccies home average the whole division. Makes it all the more creditable how comparatively high the standard of rugby produced in the Championship sometimes is, given the severe financial constraints these figures, and the lack of any real RFL funding, must impose.
Agreed.
With more resources and marketing know-how I'm sure these figures could be increased a lot. I've enjoyed this season enormously so far. It's a shame so many are missing out.
"If you start listening to the fans it won't be long before you're sitting with them," - Wayne Bennett.
"Attendances in the Championship are up 52% across the board, helped in part by Widnes’ relegation and Bradford’s promotion to the division, as well as Toulouse’s game against Toronto that was held at Stade Toulousain. The cumulative attendance is up 69% at this stage of the season, and comes before Toronto have held any of their home games in Canada"
With the right marketing the Championship could easily become the equivalent of the EFL Championship and become a really vibrant and successful competition - that may well become a reality when Super League pull up the drawbridge!
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Frank Whitcombe wrote:With the right marketing the Championship could easily become the equivalent of the EFL Championship and become a really vibrant and successful competition - that may well become a reality when Super League pull up the drawbridge!
Judging by the Elstone article MG tweeted the drawbridge is up...caps on overseas teams and the caveat 'must be up to standard' is being muttered more and more.
Toronto - too Canadian Toulouse - too French Sheffield - too poor a ground Bradford - too 'Odsally'
So i guess they are already playing the 'London or ......' game. If it becomes 'Huddersfield/Leeds or ....' I think we'll see that promotion is suddenly removed from the table with any number of cobblers excuses being made.
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Scarey71 wrote:Judging by the Elstone article MG tweeted the drawbridge is up...caps on overseas teams and the caveat 'must be up to standard' is being muttered more and more.
Toronto - too Canadian Toulouse - too French Sheffield - too poor a ground Bradford - too 'Odsally'
So i guess they are already playing the 'London or ......' game. If it becomes 'Huddersfield/Leeds or ....' I think we'll see that promotion is suddenly removed from the table with any number of cobblers excuses being made.
What about Catalan - are they not too French?
"If you don't believe you can do something, you have no chance at all" - Arsene Wenger
With the SL sponsorship up for renewal next year with Sky, and the way SL want ALL the money. I believe the Championship should look elsewhere for their own sponsorship and TV rights, its not that impossible. if Sky want the Championship rights as well then we should get more of the pot or draw away.
As has been mentioned above I'm not sure how the figures have been calculated given that the Fev average above is lower than our lowest gate in the championship.
Not that it changes the thrust of this thread the attendances in the championship are poor compared to the quality of Rugby on display.
Figures taken from the Fev website gives: BATLEY BULLDOGS (H) ..................2,145 HALIFAX RLFC (H) .......................... 2,534 SHEFFIELD (H) ............................... 1,891 DEWSBURY RAMS (H) ................... 1,923 YORK CITY KNIGHTS (H) ............... 2,216 TORONTO WOLFPACK (H) ............. 2,101 Total: ............................................... 12,810 Average: ........................................... 2,135
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