Yep......there were 67000 there for Australia v Fiji and 45,000 there for Wales v Italy..

The organisers of RLWC 2017 have decided on 4 x weekend quad-headers at ANZ for the pool stages delivering 1,280,000 fans in the pool stages alone next year......another quad-header for the qf's delivering 320k......double header for semis and then the final adds 240k....1.84 million attendance on the back of 7 events and 540k ticket sales.....simplez!!!!!!

They will then have RLWC 2021 hosted in North Korea using the same counting system and schedule at the 150,000 seat Rungnado May Day Stadium delivering 600,000 a weekend over 4 weekends followed by another 600k then 300k then 150k delivering a 3.5 million attended RLWC and triggering calls for SoO to be played in Pyongyang to further assist the games global growth

To claim anything other than 460/28 smacks of insecurity and desperation.....to claim a 20k average shows a worrying need to be take seriously as an international sport and to claim there were 67,000 in attendance for Australia v Fiji points towards senile dementia coupled with blindness.

More double headers......that's the way ahead...it gives the impression that we're making progress and that's all that matters.

Of course it was!

Comparative RLWC Attendances
RLWC2013: Total Attendance 457,133/28 games
RLWC2008: Total Attendance 293,965/18 games = Average 16,331
RLWC2000: Total Attendance 263,921/31 games = Average 8,514
RLWC1995: Total Attendance 265,609/15 games = Average 17,707

I'm absolutely delighted with the RLWC attendances in 2013. I did have my doubts that the modern day fan of discounted Super League would turn up in sufficient numbers but they did thankfully buy into the concept of international RL in the end.

The late avalanche of half price discount codes when applied to the already-discounted RLWC ticket prices was the clincher. How can any modern day fan of discounted Super League turn down prices of £5 and £7.50 for the rare opportunity to witness bona fide world class players in action?

Will the alleged legacy of the RLWC and it's attendances have a positive influence on Super League attendances which were 10.4% down last year? We shall have to wait and see.

I reckon the RLWC legacy will be a 200 page thread debating this very question. Can't wait!

460,000ish divided by the 26 events, giving an average around 17,500 - it's the only fair and most accurate way to calculate it

Well that at least gives an average, it may not be an average per game, rather an average per event but it at least qualifies as an average of something.

That is at least better than 460k/28 which doesn’t even pass the most basic test of being an average of anything at all.

It was definitely more than zero!

Btw, from that picture you was sat near me, you could have bought me a beer!

The total attendance for the two semi final fixtures was 67,545.


I'd have been more than happy to buy you a beer but I'd have insisted you queued for it.

Wrong.
Australia v Fiji had an attendance of 67,545
& England v NZ had an attendance of 67,545

To suggest anything else is in contradiction with the rest of the sporting world.