just been looking at the attendance stats and noticed its nearly 100,000 down overall on last season and nearly 2000 down on average gates, why you think this is?

It's because Wigan have cheated their way back into being meaningful. They've found an exploit that the referees are too weak to punish them for and have slunk their dark cloud back over the sport.

For anyone confused in simple English he means Wigan have being better then St Helens and he's a little bit bitter..

On SL Stats if you add up the figure for 2009 it comes to around 260000 not the 350000 which is recorded. That means an average for 2009 of around 9600. For 2010, 253000 comes out at an average of 9393 - so little difference.

Also, if the Magic weekend is taken out the avarages for 2009 (8800ish) and 2010 (8750) are very similar. Also, the 14 team league from 2009 means that comparisons with previous years of 12 teams is difficult.

ahhh right thanks for clearing that up so the stats are actually wrong then and someone cant add up

Well our (Hull FC) average attendance went up by about 4% (about 500) IIRC.

Anyone got a table of attendances by club and % change vs last year?

well i think ours went down slightly on last season but expect next season now we signed a certain player it will improve somewhat

Quins RL down 1.6% from 3,436 to 3,380...the lowest average gate for London RL sonce 2001 at the Valley (3,232)

If my sums are correct:

Wigan.....15,723 10.4
Leeds......15,355 -2.7
Hull FC.....13,731 3.7
St Helens..11,191 -2.5
Warrington.10,945 15.8
Bradford....8,436 -14.7
Hull KR......8,234 -3.6
Huddersfield...7,386 -7.1
Catalans.....6,806 -34.6
Castleford...6,616 -13.2
Wakefield....5,983 -0.9
Crusaders...4,616 20.5
Salford......4,166 -7.2
Harlequins...3,379 -1.7

wow thats a big big drop for Catalans

They are renevating their stadium at the moment, and obviously also coupled with a poor season, but i think its more to do with the first issue.

Huddersfield would have been about right, but with the dip in the season, we lost a lot of spectators, and on comparison with previous years, we've steadily improved.

RL is no longer that cheap.