The new stadium will have a creche where you can leave your youngsters. It'll be run by Kyle Eastmond during his long injury periods. For some reason the kids same to relate to him. Any naughty children will have to sit on the O'loughlin step, where they will be force fed crusts to make their her go curly.

Sounds like a Damo thing to say...

St Helens points - 30, position - 1st
Wigan points - 16, position - 8th

If only they presented a trophy for highest attendance, you'd be able to finally break that 7 year barren spell you have

Where did they get those figures from? These are the correct ones www.redvee.net/viewpage.php?page_id=253

Where did they get those figures from? These are the correct ones www.redvee.net/viewpage.php?page_id=253

Silly thread.

That figure is overall attedances, home and away.

Saints this season to many games will take more away fans than us as they are the best team atm and have been for a few years. Also because they are the best team more fans from other teams will turn up to saints games.

We are currently having our worst season for many years and have had many reasons all season why fans would be put off.

If we had the success of saints in the super leagu era, our gates would currently be well over 18,000 every game.

Why are saints fans pleased with attendances, they should be filling the stadium every week, they are one of the best teams in the history of the game.

We also have a premiership team in the town which many people attend and also a NL1 team in the town.

Saints get poor attendances IMO not because they are worse than Wigans like most fans say but because they are the best team and they should be getting more.

We are currently the 8th team in the league but have the 2nd best average.

Seems pretty simple to me why Saints fans are pleased with attendances, because they are rising, and because they are rising when a lot of other clubs are for whatever reason seeing a decline or not much of an increase. I don't think you will find many Saints fans who won't agree that in the past our attendances have been poor, but thats why we are happy at the fact that they are rising at last and we are getting decent attendances now and hopefully that will continue.

Fairplay, they are going up and thats great for the game but I cannot help but think they should be alot higher as you are the best team our game has to offer. It is a slight let down for someone who maybe does not watch RL to turn on sky sports and see saints playing and have heard of them because they are currently the best team in the sport and decide to watch it but then see emptiness all around the stadium, it does not look good. Saints attendances are still poor because of how good the team is, but I accept I cannot argue with the FACT they are going up.

Welcome to page 1.

Actually, Knowsley Road doesn't ever look empty on TV, except at the away end (when often it IS empty!). It always looks fuller on TV than it usually is in reality. It will be harder to disguise any bare patches if/when we finally get our new stadium.

I think our lowest attendance this season was at the last match, wasn't it? We only got about 8,500 for that. I don't think we had an attendance of less than 9000 before Friday during this season.

the state of the stadium is to blame for that, rising attendances in a recession should always be celebrated.

Do you honestly believe that Saints relatively poor attendances are due to "the state of the stadium"?

Do you not think that the increase this year is attributable to the "free season ticket" with a shirt promotion?

How is it the state of the stadium? Nothing wrong with it, proper rugby ground that can create a fantastic atmosphere.

well as hull and warrington managed to increase their attendance by around 50% when they moved to a new stadium, it seems an older stadium deters, or a new stadium attracts fans.

Hull also went on to win the challenge cup and go to old trafford becoming one of the best teams in the league over a few years at the same time.

Warrington struggled before a new stadium came but now you could not have super league without them, they have improved on the field also.

Saints cannot get any better really. The stadium will take the average up a few thousand maybe, but mainly due to the fact that more away fans will travel.

It took ages for Wigans attendances to go up after the sale of Central Park.