The RFL will love it. They converted 1.7 million in cash into a few refrigerated Trucks last time....

Slightly off topic, but worthy of a mention in this thread, Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV.
Catalan v London 88k
Cas v Wakey 110k
Hull v Hull 182k
St's v Wire 167k
Salford v Widnes 53k
Bulls v Hudds 90k
Leeds v Wigan 205k.

An average of about 128k a game....what do the RFL need to do to get these fans into stadiums? The NRL brokered a chunk of their TV deal in advertising airtime.....do the RFL need to do the same? There were TV adverts here in NZ for every Warriors home game this year promoting event games with KO times and information....maybe SKY need to be squeezed into doing the same in the UK??

where did you get the sky viewing figures from?

Go to BARB.CO.UK
Select top 10's,
Highlight Sky Sports 1,2,3,& 4 and select May and the last week.
It gives the times of KO so that's how I knew which game was which.

Oh, TV viewing figures and stats:

"Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV."

Really ?

Are you sure that they're not just double counting the same people. If the peak figures were 205k for the Leeds game, there's a fair chance that these were exactly the same people (but in lower proportions) that were watching the other games.

You simply can't just add all the figures together!

Oh, TV viewing figures and stats:

"Magic Weekend saw 895,000 people tune in to watch the games on SKY TV."

Really ?

Are you sure that they're not just double counting the same people. If the peak figures were 205k for the Leeds game, there's a fair chance that these were exactly the same people (but in lower proportions) that were watching the other games.

You simply can't just add all the figures together!

Look that's 2 posts on the same subject, not just 1 that's been repeated !

More than 1.6 million people attended a SL game this year, that's 1 in every 20 adults in the UK!

Sorry, you're right, so that's 205k for the Leeds game and 205k for the Wigan game so 410k overall for that fixture.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Williams thread, whether he had an ulterior motive or not.

I hope he has the time & inclination to do it all again next season, but it’s going to be a little trickier the year after, what with the proposed split and all .

Perhaps we could predict the league positions ala the real thing.

I’ll go for.

Percentage increase for league - 1.5%

Top club. Salford – Increase 35% (remember Salford fans, that’s just the top club in terms of attendance )

Bottom club – Wakefield – Decrease 27%. (Unfortunately Wakefield fans, probably correct on both counts )

For next year Hull KR should see a small increase with the North Stand open and season tickets being sold for in there. Also bigger potential gate for the derby.

I thought it was just for away fans?

I have been advocating for 3 years now that Leigh do a full crowd ' Census ' every year to identify the trends ( including the average age of the clubs supporters ) for attending and to gain every ' customers ' details

Every business that has repeat customers will as a matter of course have all their details, basic business practice, it is criminal if they dont have them

you'd think, wouldn't you.

The most valuable commodity any business can have is Cash, cold hard currency in the bank

2 nd to that is Assets , especially those that can earn income

3 rd is information, information of your existing customers, and of potential new customers

Few clubs have cash, a few more have assets, all should have information, given the simplicity and cheap cost of communicating with modern methods ,it should be at the top of every clubs priority, probably more so than the big prop and fast winger