Which of those asked travelling fans to make a round trip of a few hundred miles on a Sunday night?

So answer the question - which of those games is acceptable and what is acceptable?

we sold near 20k tickets for the wembley final...

the final is the big showpiece so other teams supporters also go...as with every year

that widnes v saints one was awful!!!

but lets face it all cup games upto the semi final are poorly attended compared to the league game.

same in football...such as the carling cup.

So no one can tell me which of those games has an acceptable attendance, and what is considered acceptable?

So why try to justify the Giants support off the back of it then????

Have we ascertained which were all SL quarter finals at the home of the second-placed team yet?

Perhaps those attendances were so low because the clubs were big meanies and didn't include free tickets with their fifty quid season passes.

You want to compare those games against your TABLE TOPPING TEAMS, ALL SUPER LEAGUE GAME, IN THE CUP QF????

Low crowds in early rounds, sometimes trans-Pennine on a Friday night, cannot be used to justify the apalling crowd at Giants this week.

Compare it like for like. Not good, eh?

Top 2 side at home in a QF with Wembley at stake against a team from the same division is hard to compare with Wigan v Crusaders, but you would hope that a club of the calibre of Hudds has more than 2500 die hards to fall back on when times get tough, again.

Or we can compare say

an all super league tie between a newly promoted club and one of the most successful teams of the modern era playing what is supposedly a bit of a derby game

a game played between what are supposed to be two of the most deeply died in the wool RL towns that are just streets apart fighting out an ancient derby

Or a game where (again) one of the most successeful teams in SL are playing another local team in a game not on TV

Or since the last poster mentioned Wigan Cru - the top team in the country, current holders, (and better supported than the Giants) fighting for a place in the next round could only get a small amount more

etc etc

in fact if we factor in London would have attended with very few fans (no fault of theirs, and not a slight on them at all) it actually stacks up fairly evenly.

Even if it doesnt - I still havent had an answer as to what constitues acceptable

Or is the answer "not Huddersfield's attendance, no matter what it is"?

it was a poor crowd! get over it Hudd fans.

Those who attended i applaud, thoses who didnt and preffered to watch it on tv should be ashamed.

how many came to the Shay last year for your home game against the Welshies?

4892.

not the best that!

I thought keighley was a good att considering there average is probably around 900

I am in complete agreement, it was a terrible crowd

I want to know what makes all those others I quoted so much better?

It cant be that "exciting" if the faithfull dont turn up to watch

Fartown attendances this year so far compared to same games last year (day played in brackets):

Widnes: 2011 - n/a. 2012(8869).
Wire: 2011(Fri) - 7224. 2012(Sat) - 8184. {+960, +13%}
Saints: 2011(Sat) - 7843. 2012(Sun) - 9194. {+1351, +17%}
Cas: 2011(Sun) - 5237. 2012(Fri) - 6928. {+1691, +32%}
Salford: 2011(Tue) - 6042. 2012(Fri) - 6988. {+946, +16%}
Hull FC: 2011(Sun) - 8822. 2012(Mon) - 9950. {+1128, +13%}

Average: 2011 - 7091. 2012(so far) - 8352. {+1261, +18%}

Not bad in a recession, pretty good growth. Still the bigger crowds of Wigan, Leeds and Bradford at home to come. No-one from Huddersfield is trying to claim our attendances are fantastic, or what a table topping side deserves. What they are though is growing, after nigh on 40 years of dross and near bankruptcy. From little acorns...