On attendances to the round and also like for like fixtures the drop is actually 11%. Celtic and Salford coming in clouds it a little. As the season goes on the general trend is for all clubs gates to tail off slightly so expect the percentage to increase slightly as the season progresses.

3% drop across SL can be blamed on two things I think.



1. The credit crunch, to say it hasnt impacted RL is just a ridiculous statement, its affected every single facet of life in this country.



2. I wonder what effect the demise of the Bulls is having on the gates. No more huge Odlsum derbies agaisnt Leeds, no more big crowds for their games at Hudds, Wakey & Cas etc. Less number for the games at Saints and Wigan too. All in all it adds up.



not to mention that 20% drop at wakey will help drag the whole ammount down. (1.5% of the drop across all clubs can be levelled at the 20% wakey drop - implying in real terms that the numbers across the board are only down 1.5%, nothing really in the scheme of things)



As for Wakey, thats a puzzler, maybe its a combination of too many seasons scraping by, on/off promises of a new ground, no real progression on or off the pitch all just makes people not bothered any more?



Touching on our season ticket offer, I think in the present climate the club might be courting financal suicide to NOT offer the same deal again this end of season, and I wonder if other clubs wont follow suit.

20% is approx 1500 so that is approx 100 spectators per club which is not a 1.5% decrease in Leeds, Wigan, Catalan etc.

Bradford's average to date this season: 10,268.



Bradford's 2008 average: 10,287.



Looking through we have:



Saints up 10% (11,664 v 10,642)

Leeds down 10% (15,935 v 17,824)

Us up 4% (8,100 v 7,820)

Rovers down 2% (8,405 v 8,554)

Quins down 14% (3,369 v 4,37icon_cool.gif

Wakey down 21% (5,496 v 6,57icon_cool.gif

Wire down 7% (8,869 v 10,71icon_cool.gif

Wigan down 4% (13,929 v 14,505)

Cas level (7,470 v 7,501)

Hull up 1% (13,509 v 13,432)

Bradford level (10,268 v 10,287)

Salford 4,134

Celtic 3,778

Depends how the stats are compiled of course

Catalans 9478 Up 13.1%

At Stade Gilbert Brutus only the average is 8,394 (total: 67159) with the top crowd being 9490 v Wigan.



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Interesting.



Wonder why Leeds is down so much?

Don't know how I missed them out! Possibly confused myself as Cas are immediately above them in the league at the moment.

Nobody is infallible. Even I will eventually make a mistake at some point.

i posted this on a discussion the VT about crwods which i think has contributed to our less than dramatic increase. I am not sure if it has affected other teams as well. I think there are only 4 SL teams who have better home than away records.

Where do teh percentages for Quins & Wolves come from. I reckon Quibs are down 23% and Wolves down 17%. That's assuming yourfigures are correct.

These figures I've pretty much plagiarised from Hull FC's RLFans page so I can't vouch for their accuracy! hullfc.rlfans.com/leaguetable.php?show=attn

These figures I've pretty much plagiarised from Hull FC's RLFans page so I can't vouch for their accuracy! hullfc.rlfans.com/leaguetable.php?show=attn