If we somehow managed to get 10k to both games, we would only just average over 8k with 8018 so we can almost certainly rule that out.

I've given a pessimistic guess of 7000 for the Wigan game and 5000 for the Celtic game to get my earlier final average of 7400.

If we managed 8000 and 6000 respectively, we'd still only have an average of 7557.

If I was a cynic I would say Sky doen this deliberately to sabotage our next application the way they keep bleating on about mergers and ground sharing etc!!!

Didnt bother to work out the sums to be honest just assumed if we could get a crowd like the kr game for wigan and 7500 against celtic (last game of the season, should increase the gate) we would be over 8000, my bad.

Keep in mind that last years figures may have set a relatively low reference figure due to it pi**ing it down all year. Hence giving giving many an excuse for not going to the game.

However, I suppose that could be offset by the financial situation facing many this year also! Perhaps balancing the two out!!

Gut feeling is:-
1) I thought the increase at Cas would have been more.
2) I thought Wakey's figure last year looks a bit high.
3) God know's how Celtic get over 3000
4) Huddersfield combined season tickets with football at a dirt cheap price.

etc etc etc!

The problem is we've had games such as Leeds and Warrington which are 2k down on what you would expect. The weather wasn't good and it was on Sky but we normally break the 10k for Leeds and 7k for Warrington.

So are the Wakey fans - whats left of us!!

To be fair to Sky, you have to understand why they choose the home game against Leeds because it's usually a cracking game with a fantastic atmosphere.

It would be nice to still have a full house for it though.

both games last year was on sky ?

And last year attendance against leeds was down on previous seasons as well, last time we played leeds at home and it wasnt on sky we got a fullhouse.

Turns out Wigan was 6574 and Celtic 6547 giving us a final average of 7490 which is down marginally from last season.

i would to be able to blame our attendances on the recession and poor weather but mostly this is down to the poor/terrible homes performances coupled with sky tv games and yes there being less £££ in the pocket.

interested to know how much our away gates have gone up.

Also that we played local teams more than once at home last year which will have boosted it as this season have been replaced by Celtic and Salford!

We were fortunate this year to play Quins in the first game and Celtic in the last game though I reckon. If they'd been mid-season, we wouldn't have had anywhere near the crowds we did.

On the other hand we have had more home sky games and games where our usual kick off time has been changed than most clubs. I reckon thats probabley knocked a thousand off our average.

Does anyone know how many season ticket holders there were?