They reckon that 10% of the crowd were locals.

That's a crowd of 6000 for a place that doesn't even have a team!

If there were 14 teams + Edinburgh then on average each team contributed 3857 speccies whereas Edinburgh / locals contributed 6000.

Seems it was therefore probably better supported by locals than pretty much by fans of most of the individual clubs.

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.

Thing is though, I've just watched Boots N All this week. Angela's report at the begining says there were no posters or any advertising for the event in the town and locals when asked had no idea that there was even anything going on. Ball badly dropped by the RFL there I think

Then I put it to you that Angela Powers "research" for the weekend is about on par with her "what is the best stadium in SL and I'm going to skew the results so its the team I support" articles a couple of years back.

How do they get in with the millions of KR fans?

They always let the polar bears in first, because someone told them they're sitting on a mint.

To be fair, she was spot on with that. Other than the fans wandering round with shirts on, there was absolutely no evidence whatsoever in the city that a major event was on. There should have been billboards, posters, info points selling tickets and merchandise, maybe even a fanzone. But there was nothing.

I was impressed with the weekend, thoroughly enjoyed it, Edinburgh isnt as cheap a city as Cardiff, its a tourist hot spot, possibly, second after London in the UK, and thats why things where a little more expensive.

Simply put a great time , but would prefer to see all derbies if possible.

How many of the 59,749 attended both days though? I'm sure the number of individuals who actually attended over the whole weekend would be a far more interesting figure.

6,000 tickets sold in Scotland doesn't necessarily mean 6,000 people. If they all attended both days that would be 3,000 people.

6000 tickets sold is 6000 tickets sold, end of story. Handwringing about how many were for what day and how many bought tickets for each day is mindless twaddle.

You buy a season ticket, you go one week and you are counted as attending, you go again the next week you are counted again, that is how it works.

Nope. Not at modern stadiums.

WTF has age of a stadium got to do with counting fans?