Two seasons ago, Huddersfield Town sold around 16,200 (most priced at £100) season tickets, in a scheme similar to the one being operated at Valley Parade. At that time, most football clubs were still calculating attendances based on ‘bums on seats’, as opposed to tickets sold, and the majority of Town’s home games that season averaged around 11/12,000.

Prices were so cheap, 4/5000 ticket holders (and possibly more if, as expected, 2/3,000 non-ticket holders paid on the gate) were absent from most games. Town’s home gates that season (with the addition of those paying on the gate) should have been around 18/19,000, but in reality, only 11/12,000 turned up- except for the big games against Leeds etc, or when the away team brought a big following.

I heard the Radio Leeds commentator scream ‘never’ when yesterday’s crowd was announced, and if true, wonder if a similar situation to Huddersfield is occurring, with many ticket holders deciding to cherry pick which games they attended? On one hand, you would expect most to cherry pick an attractive first home game of the season, on the other, weather and personal commitments may be a factor. Was it really Lee Crooks commentating on the game? I was not paying attention.

If, as suggested somewhere else, Wigan brought 2/3,000, about 12,000 Bulls fans must have attended. Last season’s opener v Saints pulled in 10,165, and in 2009, Bulls first game v Hull KR attracted 12,141, with the KR contingent similar to Wigan’s. On both occasions, it seems Bulls supporters made up around 9,000 of the gate.

I read somewhere Bulls have never sold over 5,000 season tickets before, or maybe it was a long time ago if they have, and another poor season on the field could highlight a farcical situation. All football clubs now calculated attendances based on season ticket sales, plus those paying on the gate- including away fans; no matter if, fewer actually turn up. I presume Bulls are following suit. The bigger the crowds, the more attractive you are as a business proposition.

If, God forbid, Bulls fail to deliver on the field, will the club still be quoting crowds of circa 11,000- plus those paying on the gate, when only 6,000 are actually in the ground? It could be embarrassing.

Instead of moaning why not email the bloke and ask him why he was so incredulous. I doubt he has a nefarious agenda. terry.crook@superleedsrhinos.co.uk

Instead of moaning why not email the bloke and ask him why he was so incredulous. I doubt he has a nefarious agenda. terry.crook@superleedsrhinos.co.uk

Quote: Shaggoth "Instead of moaning why not email the bloke and ask him why he was so incredulous. I doubt he has a nefarious agenda.

Quote: Shaggoth "Instead of moaning why not email the bloke and ask him why he was so incredulous. I doubt he has a nefarious agenda.

Yeah it's Terry Crook though I'm surprised he got to commentate on "the big one". I'll tell you about him before they changed the texting process on Radio Leeds I used to spend my Sunday afternoons when Bulls were away or played earlier texting weird comments into RL with JD. One Sunday afternoon I managed to get loads read out one of them was a comment from a Huddersfield fan talking about how beating Leeds was almost as satisfying as selling her cheating husband's record collection. JD read it out before going to the Tetley's stadium for an update from Tery Cook who spent the next five minutes (slight exaggeration) talking about how some old records are worth decent amounts of brass. The best one that afternoon was following a last gasp victory the following Thursday night for Halifax. JD read the text out with great enthusiasm before tailing off to the end (they mustn't get much time to proof read them) as he read out about how it was exciting but not the best for "Les in Mytholmroyd" considering he only has one lung! Jamie Bloom made a load sigh on air clearly not impressed.

Did anyone read Mick Gledhill's comments in the League Weekly or League Express (can't remember which) this week? Not a letter on the letter's page but an actual comment with photo!

He's in LW every week mate.

Anyway, I knew what HE looks like. Your turn now...

I quite like the Radio Leeds people, even though they are as biased as they come to 'their' sides. Actually that's not quite true, I was forgetting David Doyle Davidson on radio Blunderside, and [ino one [/i can be more biased than that. I just wish they would get some new lines instead of referring to "The Odsal mudbath", which it hasn't been for (well) over thirty years.