There has been 4 +80k crowds in the last decade and a few more 1k below the 80k mark in the last 10 years.

I’m getting sick and tired of certain posters on here putting down the areas that most of us are from. I’m proud of where I’m from thanks. I’m trying to be as polite as I can about it, and I’m of the thinking that expenasion done correctly is a good thing, but as EastHull has already said - if these are the type of fans that expansion is going to bring then do we really want it? The actual problem could be the stuck up attitudes of ‘fans’ outside of the heartlands. Some of the posts on here lately just sound like stuck up your own ar5e pompous cr@p that could lead to dislike between different sets of fans. Rugby League fans have always been a fairly close group regardless of the teams we support. I’d like to keep it that way thanks, so if you don’t like us then do us all a favour - go back under the rock that you crawled from under in the first place.

Cheers didn’t realise that, for some reason thought they were all pretty steady around the 70-75000 mark.

I am from London and a supporter of expansion but definitely agree with the points you have put across.

There is no need for the total disrespect towards northern areas in the UK. We can all have discussion and debate without putting down the areas people live in.

Last year was the first year not to include the Club Wembley sales, which inflated the crowd for the last decade.

As I said earlier in the thread the issue is the RFL need to get the neutrals back, by the semi final stage we should be aiming for 40k to be sold with 25k sales reserved for each finalist. Thousands of neutral fans have been lost and we need em back.

Big name blue chip sponsors are not looking at Pound shop, Daily Mirror reader types of demography. They see that there is no money there, this is why we attract the likes of Foxy Bingo and BetFred.

There was over 84,000 at the CC final last time Catalans got there in 2007.

By contrast there was only 68,000 last year for Hull v Wigan.

Heartland clubs do not guarantee an increase in crowds.

And that crowd was nothing to do with it been the first year at the new Wembley?

Well said, seems as though he isn't aware of the history of our game and its working class roots. Can't have your Toronto, New York and wherever else without your Dewsbury, Batley and Whitehaven etc

Oh dear, you’ve presented facts which support an expansion club, be prepared to be shot down by angry flat cap whippet keeping pigeon racers.

I have no idea, I'm not a psychologist.

Interesting this forum is called 'The Virtual Terrace' just makes me wonder if 'Call Me God' and 'RL Realist' have ever actually stood on a terrace. Or is that 'Pit village' behaviour

No, but you are an idiot.