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Given the fact that we still have a few good sides to come to HQ, and given the fact that summer is approaching, attendances should start to improve..though 12% is a lot to pick up! I think we may finish 5% down on last year.

Another fator in this are the 2 new sides in SL, and the fact that we only play each team once. For example, a fan may have last year payed to watch us play Bradford twice and yet will not pay for the coressponding fixture this year (i.e salford or Celtic). If this makes any sence!

I don't think that prices are much of a problem. If you have a desirable product and a captive market, which Leeds have, then you can "get away" with a price increase now and again.

It's actually not a bad step in that situation. It's a lot easier to keep your existing customers than it is to attract new ones. If you can make a little bit more from the customers that you've already got, then you're easing the pressure on your sales team.

Although I agree that the figures are slightly skewed with the teams that we've hosted, I would expect season-on-season figures to go down slightly anyway. Whether that translates to reduced revenue is a different question entirely (it's no secret that the club has focused heavily on corporate sales in recent years).

I don't think the prices or the fixtures have anything to do with it. The product on offer (the Rugby) is poor this season. If you did not have a season ticket it is far easier to say, no I wont bother this week.

Leeds make a decent signing and people would come back to watch, regardless of the fixture.

I don't agree.

Poor form has a part to play, but you can't discount the fact that Celtic, Quins and Catalans will only have brought 100 people or so, where hull,saints or Bulls would have brought 1000 or more

It does make some sense to me.

I expected the SL aggregate to increase this year (not Leeds but the whole of SL) but the average per game to fall with the introduction of the extra fixture each round.

As Leeds are currently down somewhere between 7% (like for like opponents) and 12% (over last seasons average and in comparison to the first six fixtures) that is likely to be the range of the fall 7% to 12%

I don't buy the weather argument (as it's usually pretty s[ihitt[/iy anyway) and I don't expect crowds to pick up much during the holiday season to come.

Poor form has a big part to play.

Leeds whether we like it or not, have a lot of bandwagoners. The club its self has previously made a big thing about how many fans we have from outside the are, who travel some distance. If the rugby on offer is substandard to usual and they are not season ticket holders whats to encourage them to come at the moment?

you have a point. although I'd be interested to see whether the drops are in the walk up customers, or the season ticket holders.

Having been to a few games this year, I was shocked at it being £20 to get it. Its gone up £10 in 10 years, which I think is excessive. Am I right in thinking it was only £18 last year. A £2 increase is also hard to swallow

£17 at Odsal appears too much at present for the good folk of Bradford.

My first season ticket at Headingley was 10 bob.

Shouldn't yer avatar be a sopwith camel then tvoc???

The Vulcan has been flying around since 1952 (in responce to a specification order placed in 1947) and still predates my 10 shilling season ticket by twenty plus years.

Time for an update now that Leeds have completed their Home League campaign:

Leeds : SL Regular Rounds, Home, Attendances

Comp - Year - Aggregate - No Of Games - Average - % +/- On Previous Year - =blueFinishing Position - Pl At Home - Won - Drawn - Lost

SL 1 - 1996 - 94,395 - 11 - 8,581 - ................. =blue10 - 11 - 4 - 0 - 7

SL 2 - 1997 - 120,978 - 11 - 10,998 - +28% ..... =blue5 - 11 - 8 - 0 - 3

SL 3 - 1998 - 133,801 - 11 - 12,163 - +11% ..... =blue2 - 11 - 10 - 0 - 1

SL 4 - 1999 - 202,232 - 15 - 13,482 - +11% ..... =blue3 - 15 - 13 - 0 - 2

SL 5 - 2000 - 177,435 - 14 - 12,673 - =red-6% =blue ..... 4 - 14 - 9 - 0 - 5

SL 6 - 2001 - 180,330 - 14 - 12,880 - +2% ..... =blue5 - 14 - 7 - 1 - 6

SL 7 - 2002 - 170,193 - 14 - 12,156 - =red-6% ..... =blue4 - 14 - 8 - 0 - 6

SL 8 - 2003 - 179,844 - 14 - 12,846 - +6% ..... =blue2 - 14 - 10 - 3 - 1

SL 9 - 2004 - 224,390 - 14 - 16,027 - +25% ..... =blue1 - 14 - 14 - 0 - 0

SL 10 - 2005 - 238,169 - 14 - 17,012 - +6% ..... =blue2 - 14 - 12 - 0 - 2

SL 11 - 2006 - 219,478 - 14 - 15,677 - =red-8% ..... =blue3 - 14 - 10 - 0 - 4

SL 12 - 2007 - 228,259 - 13 - 17,558 - +12% ..... =blue2 - 13 - 9 - 0 - 4

SL 13 - 2008 - 221,555 - 13 - 17,042 - =red-3% ..... =blue2 - 13 - 11 - 0 - 2

SL 14 - 2009 - 205,058 - 13 - 15,773 - =red-7% ..... =blue1 - 13 - 11 - 0 - 2