3000 crowds in the championship = at least 6000 in SL.

crowds of 3000 in the championship indicate a club which is good enough for SL

widnes clearly are that

potentially fax and leigh as well

the RFL would like to see as many clubs as possible ready to go into SL to put more pressure on SL sides.

next time maybe 2 sl clubs will go out, instead of one ive been assuming

York, Barrow, South Wales Gateshead and Sheffield. The teams with the Biggest potential outside SL.

I was not infering that Widnes fans would go and watch Wire what I meant was that the floating fans in and around the area would lean towards those two before Widnes. As for 8k well we can only wait and see! Good luck anyway hopefully not at our expense.

widnes in SL for 3 years 10,000.

easy as.

Get Leigh in SL!

Yep, Wrexham is probably a much more difficult journey than its distance suggests, not least with the farce that is Runcorn Bridge!

Widnes lose some local support to St Helens, however.

widnes average crowds in super league for their last 4 years

2002 - 6,510
2003 - 6,511
2004 - 6,153
2005 - 6,794

so potentially they would average that again but with the recent success of warrington and the possible re-emergence of wigan how many floating fans will be lost to widnes from the halton/runcorn area?
not forgetting that north wales was usually a stronghold for widnes too, if the crusaders take off how will that affect widnes' ambitions? they need ( and should) to get a license in the next round if we are brutally honest

1 Featherstone Rovers 1,752 (2009 - 1,809) -57
2 Leigh Centurions 2,113 (2009 - 1,984) +129
3 Halifax R.L.F.C. 2,364 (2009 - 2,325) +39
4 Barrow Raiders 1,859 (2009 - 2,280) -421
5 Widnes Vikings 3,072 (2009 - 3,80icon_cool.gif -736
6 Toulouse Olympique XIII 1,350 (2009 - 2,372) -1,022
7 Batley Bulldogs 1,661 (2009 - 895) +766
8 Whitehaven 1,284 (2009 - 1,670) -386
9 Sheffield Eagles 1,597 (2009 - 1,174) +423
10 Dewsbury Rams 1,172 (2009 - 1,265 in C1) -93
11 Keighley Cougars RLFC 1,126 (2009 - 933 in C1) +193

Shocked that Fevs crowds have slightly declined despite their start to the season. I suspect Leigh can get as high as 2750 average gate by the end of the season, with a good run in the cup and play-offs. In SL, I think we could get to 5,000 average relatively easily, based on local derbies at least. We would get 10k for Wigan for example, and Wire, Saints would bring a lot. The clear answer is to relegate Salford, Quins and Wakey and promote Leigh, Widnes and Halifax. More crowds and overall better stadiums...! But of course Leigh have to tick a box yet!

Well done Batley there crowds are excellent compared to last year. Shame to see widnes and barrow's fans on the decline but there still pretty healthy figures for the championship. Also nice to see Sheffield crowds are up quite alot

Widnes crowds will continue to drop as they have ticked a magic box and the chairman sees no point in over funding a dead horse that the championship becomes when you tick in year one

That is enough proof that Widnes should be in super league over Cas, Wakey, Salford, Quins and Crusaders for me.

Castleford have consistently managed higher crowds than Widnes though they're attendances this year aren't that impressive.

I don't think Leigh or Halifax could match Wakefield's crowds on a regular basis, to be honest.

Wakey having 1 season in 15 in SL would be nowhere near Leighs gates, same for Cas, Hudds, Salford.

Leigh/Widnes/Fax/Oldham have as much to offer as Cas/Wakey/Hudds/HKR, when you consider P&R its only really those clubs that would be affected