The main stand seemed to be 3/4 full at last nights game, the stand behind the sticks felt pretty full but obviously didn't get a view from the front to determine how many were in there while the stand along the other side of the pitch was full but the two temporary stands at either end were sply populated.

Two days running the local paper had them on the front page so it seems the press are right behind them over here but just seems to have settled a little as happens with most clubs. Think HKR are going through a similar situation where we've hit the top of the boom and now without success on the field we'll stick to around 7,800 at most games. Our average will always be boosted by a competative derby fixture whereas Catalans do not have that bonus.

If Catalans can push on and compete for the silverware on offer those attendances will creep up again but without sustained success it will always drop to around this figure. IMO of course.

These stats just aren't true, their first 4 games last year were,

Wakefield, 7,500
St Helens, 7,095
Salford, 7,156
Hull 8,025.

Seeing as though you would expect Saints to be a big game this is no problem. They clearly get less when they start the year. It was the same in 2010:

St Helens, 7,825
Castleford, 6,810
Hull KR, 6,513
Leeds, 8,230

Let's remember that last year they were redeveloping Stade Gilbert Brutus.

But you can see that the first 4 attendances were clearly not affected by this.

I just remember them doing the redevelopment, can't remember what the capacity was reduced to.