Can also guess which game involved Wigan fans travelling any sort of distance

The QF was 13024 sold out, the semi was 12713, where you getting 2000 empty seats from!!?

Cas are averaging around 7,000 to home games which includes probably around 750 - 1000 away fans.

The attendance at Keepmoat was just over 13,000 fairly evenly split between the 2 sides with a modest number of neutrals. So fair to say each side took 6,000 or so supporters.

I consider Cas taking as many fans to an away game as they get to their home SL games on average is a decent effort. Had the other 3 sides playing in the semis done the same then both games would have been sell outs and the 2 venues deemed not big enough....

The entirety of that paragraph is complete and utter cobblers.

I'm not sure why there's all this gnashing of teeth over CC crowds. They've been awful for years (except the final) as it is now clearly the second competition behind SL.

When I first started watching in the early 80s the crowds were the other way round - bigger for the cup than the league. But semi final crowds? I know Leeds vs KR in 84-85 was big (and the replay even bigger), but generally have they really been that big? They used to have semi-finals at the likes of Station Road IIRC - that could never have been a big gate.

1986 mate. I think the 1st game was approx 26,000, the replay was over 30,000. Happy days soaked to the skin