How bloody dare you poms increase attendances and TV ratings.
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Pull your heads in ffs, this is a norvern sport and will remain a norvern sport.

For bloody shame.

I see teams like Warrington, Hull FC, Wigan and co had a boost moving in to their new grounds and since then have built even higher, for the knocker, do we disregard this?

Sorry, but the troll is an a grade moron.

There were 2,381 in attendance today at the London V Castleford fixture. This compares with the 4,128 who attended the same fixture last year.

rlThere weren't shedloads of free tickets given away this year.rl
There were probably more paying punters there this afternoon than last season.

I bet there is - and a few more on top of that. We normally get a good crowd for Leeds games.

I agree, I reckon Saints will get a good 16k+. Leeds are a top attraction from a RL POV, they generally have a decent away following, it's also easier/100 miles closer round trip for Leeds based fans to get to Saints than for Hull. Given our recent form fans might not have wanted to spend 6+ hours on a road work congested M62 on a Friday night either. That they did travel in decent numbers is a testament to them and they were richly rewarded(get inicon_biggrin.gif )

As for attendances in general I think it is hard even to compare a whole season with another, there are far too many variables involved to be able to make direct comparisons.
As an example just look at the season ticket prices for Hudds & Bradford over the last couple of years, that skews the attendances massively.