If you are interested, I have put a questionnaire on the Wire forum as to why we are getting low attendances.

There are 34 votes on this to date, and some interesting results.
All opinions welcomed.

...because it's not included in the season ticket system - the RFL wants its piece of fish,

Interesting point about about including in the season ticket price but what if your team doesnt reach the play offs ? Why in Aus are the crowds so good in the play offs ? It is a problem for our game when at the sharp end of the season the grounds look empty

Thinks it's because season ticket holders get used to not paying each match, having to find the full entrance costs especially when the game is on TV comes as a bit of a shock.
Should season tickets be changed. ie by a ticket for £50. This allows you entry for games for £10. Probably costs the same each year but you becomes accustomed to paying to watch the game. When The challenge cup or playoffs come around(yes I can remember that far back) you don't feel the full entry cost as much and maybe more would attend the games.

Because it has become a Mickey Mouse Cup! second bites of the cherry if you lose? pick who you want to play? it should become the Sky Sports Cup and The Premiership is awarded to the team who play consistently All Season and top Super League.

All non-season ticket holder games are poorly attended. Challenge Cup semi finals are poorly attended.

Have a look around you the next time you go to a Super League game. Most of the people around you won't have eaten for a week, they'll have holes in their shoes.

The way people go on about how poverty stricken they are that they can't afford a ticket, you could be right.

I liked the old premiership, it was a nice a winding down of the season - an extra cup for those who badly need one. But it's no way to crown a team 'champions of the season'. In Australia, they have their own culture, as Wittgenstein would put "a form of [sporting] life" different to ours.

The play-offs in the Super League as of the moment, resemble more a WWE WrestleMania event than the workings of a dignified sporting organisation with 117 years of history. I will personally never accept the play-offs as being legitimate.

That annoyed me about the claims of poverty in the North West by Save The Children a few weeks back, very few people today know what poverty is, I bet many families will have Sky TV for their kids, computer games & parents drink and smoke while still claiming to be poor.

I'm not so sure. There was a show on about Sunderland the other week where it showed families living in truely horrible conditions. There was one family who had a meal (Some food, not a real meal) once every three days on average. They didn't mention how they got into that mess, but it was something about losing their job then house but not qualifying for benefits because they weren't out of work long enough yet.

If you're in that situation, season tickets and play-off games are the very least of your worries.

And on the other hand I read something where they asked some apparently poor English kids what poverty meant to them, one answered

"Only having a Playstation 2"

Weekly rounds attended fairly well - play-off games attended badly...The only difference is that people have season tickets in the weekly rounds, so a possible solution is obvious. I'm not saying that this is the answer, but it's the most logical reason for the poor attendances and would make the biggest difference.

The RFL take a portion of ticket sales don't they? If clubs add on £30-50 to season tickets (roughly, of course) then a percentage of that will go to the RFL. The only way that fans would get on board with this increase would be to include away tickets too

Regardless of how we define poverty, there are a lot of people, poor or not, who can't afford the outlay that the playoff series in its entirety represents. Take the Wigan v Catalans game. Whether Wigan won or not, their fans knew they would be playing again in the following couple of weeks in a knock out match, and in all probability the following weekend as well, in an expensive fixture at Old Trafford. If you've got a family to take along that is a lot of money to part with in the space of one month - a modest estimate for a family with two kids would be about £200 to attend all games. Even if you're going alone you're looking at £60-£100.

In those circumstances I can totally understand why a large number of fans will choose instead to watch a preliminary match with a predictable outcome at home on the telly.