Just wait for one of the big clubs to make the final

Would cheapen the event IMO.

what if a team made it to both finals?

Could we see an avarage of over 10,000 this weekend?

Leeds: 15,000
Hull: 14,000
Bradford: 11,000
Salford: 3,000
Wakefield: 8,000
Warrington: 11,000
Hull KR: 9,000

All achievable and would give us an avarage of just over 10,000

Shame Salford v Catalans isnt in France because 10k would be guaranteed if it were.

Well there at least 4 cas fans going so thats a start.

So 4 Cas fans, Hudds will bring their usual 50, so could be looking at about 6054 - would we get over the 10'000 with that?

That is about as likely as Damo emigrating to the moon.

The Marketing is one thing, but the Media is Key. Regardless of who reads or watches what....SKY have an agreement with the BBC for League Highlights and ITV for Union.

The BBC, in their infinite wisdom, run the SL show for the heartlands on a Sunday afternoon and the UK at 3am. The show has highlights of the 2 SKY games and snippets of any other Fri/Sat games.

Over on ITV 4, on Sunday at a reasonable hour, you can see every try from that weekends Union fixtures (including that afternoons).
Simple little things like either Sky slapping the BBC or taking away the rights would be a start. Surely it's in Sky TV's interest to get the game shown when there's a chance of a bigger audience?

The BBC have disappeared so far up their own innards they can look for ulcers The treatment of SL is one amongst many many examples of a completely contra approach to their remit for public service broadcasting - binning R6 is another but I digress. I strongly suspect that if the roles were reversed and Auntie had Union they would put a really good show together and broadcast it countrywide at a reasonable hour; would ITV take league??

Further, I am not entirely convinced that media itself is the key - rather that the RFL have no real idea about how to make it work for them. A comparative study of respective press office activities would be insightful

What has any of this to do with SL attendances? Can you please start another thread to argue about Union!

Good call JB.
Could be a good weekend this for attendances, just hope Salford are doing a promotion or something.

They've got to do something, they're worse than ever

Back to the thread,

Bradford vs Wigan - On Sky, Bradford on the slide crowd-wise, 10k
Leeds vs Quins - Leeds in bad form, no away support, 13k
Hull FC vs Cas - Hull in good form, Cas bring a fairly decent following for this one, 14k
Salford vs Catalans - Two worst teams in the league. Salford have crap crowds and Catalans will bring 2 people, 3k
Wakefield vs Hudds - On Sky, Hudds take very few even to local derbies, Wakey crowds aren't exactly huge, 6k
Hull KR vs Saints - Saints in good form, Rovers back to winning ways, 9k
Wire vs Cru - Wire doing well, Cru bringing a few to this apparently, 11k

I think some people have estimated a few thousand over the top on some of these. 66k +/- 2k, so not far off 10k average but I don't think we can expect that with a 3k crowd in there. 3k should not be acceptable for top flight sport.