Quote: Sal Paradise "The ground holds 48,000 so the RFL expect to fill and empty and fill again two more times on Saturday? What is the highest attendance for the first day of this weekend?'"
I was being sarcastic.
Several on the VT last season (like SmokeyTA and Him) claimed I was deliberately undervaluing the attendances at the Tragic Weekend. They claim that if say 30,000 turn up on a Saturday for 4 games, that equates to an attendance of 4 x 30,000 = 120,000. If another 30,000 turn up on the Sunday for 3 games, that's 3 x 30,000 = 90,000 to produce a total attendance for the event of 210,000.
Last season, the attendance on the Saturday was 30,793 on the Saturday and 31,249 on the Sunday which I declared as a total attendance of 62,042 on the SL attendance thread. Smokey, Him and a few others claimed the attendance was (4 x 30,793) + (3 x 31,249) = 216,919
The highest first day (Saturday) attendance for this event is 32,384 in Cardiff 2007.
Cardiff 2007: 32,384 + 26,447 = 58,831
Cardiff 2008: 30,628 + 32,516 = 63,144
Edinburgh 2009: 29,627 + 30,122 = 59,749
Edinburgh 2010: 26,642 + 25,401 = 52,043
Cardiff 2011: 30,891 + 29,323 = 60,214
Manchester 2012: 30,763 + 32,953 = 63,716
Manchester 2013: 30,793 + 31,249 = 62,042