The game is dying, paralysed by years of self serving and bad decision making. The game has suceeded in making itself look foolish be it the farcical play offs or licencing criteria (or lack of).

Consequently fans expect freebies to all our marque events. 12,000 is pathetic for the biggest clubs in the land. We have effectively become the equivalent of Aldi - zero brand credibility reliant on sell it cheap. RU, soccer etc are the Nike's of this world. People love the allure of their big events.

Its improtant to ask why fans are not turning up. Dont buy the recession bull. I watched Saints at Old Trafford play Wigan with nearly 30,000 on during the horrible 1990 recession and now we wouldnt even get half that for an equivalent match.

Well Eddy if you come on this forum enough times you'll realise TV viewing figures are far more important than feet on terraces or bums on seats.
As for your Aldi comment,well its hard to argue with that,ask a bradford or a huddersfield fan

I fail to see how you can come to the conclusion the game is dying. The average crowds are much higher than they were in 1990.

In comparision then, for that equivalent match, how many do you think we'll have at Old Trafford next week?

Where did you get that figure from? Both Sky and Sporting Life give the attendance as 8,235.

it was definitely 12,000 +

Can't argue with this but i really really really wish SL clubs would charge a proper price for the product on offer!.

more confusing is that when the fans have to pay a proper price, for the play-offs, they refuse to turn up? as tonight proved, play-off rugby is the PINNACLE of our season and they are the games that every fan should want to see, I don't get why they are so poorly attended.

Just my opinion but its been made so cheap to attend league games that when it comes to paying market value prices ,they just appear so much more exspensive than they actually are!.

The crowd was crap but how about that game?!

Thats just an example of plucking a figure from the RFL/SKY propaganda machine. The game is massively more incentivised than back then. I could watch all of Wakefield's games next year for 125 quid, I remember Ken Davy walking on the Huddersfield pitch with 'news that was going to shock the sport' - it was that Huddersfield were flogging season tickets for next to nowt. I think not so long ago you could get a ticket to watch the Giants for 50 bar if you were one of the first 2,000 to purchase a ticket.

Is it any wonder there is an increase in attendence when the game has reduced itself as bargain basement? Its one of the big problems today, and why coincidentally Eamon McManus mentioned the challenges of improving commercial revenue.