Quote: Fax4Life "It matters because people like him use the 'crowd' figures to say how good their club is by the fact they think they have support that has been inflated in other words like he said we are bigger and better than X club because we had a bigger crowd.
It distorts the truth, yet the RFL live in this world of fiction and encourage it to say how healthy the game is as we get crowds of X yet in the 'old' days and mostly in football the crowd figure is the number of people who come through the turnstiles.
Lots of RL attendances aint the truth thats what annoys me its a pack of lies really.
Its like the big games the crowd is made up of cheap tickets and BOGOF offers etc... which is good marketing in a way but its sad to see that its the only way they can get a decent crowd. I went to see England v Australia at Elland Road only after my mate got a £10 ticket after he got a ticket for the Wembley game which included a free shirt for £30 or £35. This is the biggest international game in the sport for goodness sake.
Its buying crowds!'"
I agree 100%. I am continually arguing this point with a mate at work who is a Bulls supporter. They sell about 10,000 Season Tickets at about £60 each (the cost of 3 games which is an offer you can't refuse) and the RFL allow them to include these in every gate which means that every match looks like they are fighting to get into the ground. The reality, however, is a different matter.
The worrying thing is that the supporters start to believe their own spin which is unbelievable.
The problem with selling ST's so cheaply is that supporters are not so reluctant to miss games as they are when they have paid £200.
