Only around 2k more than the 2009 final and 7k down on last year.

Yeah, what a stupid idea to sell thousands of tickets at a huge premium, well in advance of any event...

If people don't want to take up their seats, seats that they have already paid for, it is up to them.

If these seats have already been payed for,do they count on the attendance figure?

population of leeds, around 770,000 so absolutely shocking support, combination of glory supporters and arrogance.

I think so otherwise the last 3 years attendances would have been much lower.

next year the rugby league will make sure one (or both) of the Hull clubs is in the final

we'll fill the ground

From what i saw, there were a couple of smallish patches of empty seats in the upper tier of the Wigan end, there were whole sections empty in the Leeds end.

Can't tell much about the sideline where the teams came from, I was on the front row by the corner flag.

If thats the case then the actuall attendance is lower than the one given out?.

Is that a valid excuse though. Your team is in a major final with a chance to win something and nearly did. I dont see why any of the last CC final results should stop fans going. Thats a weak excuse and Leeds should have taken more!!

I remember the 80's. Recession was on, miners strike etc.. & Wembley would sell out with neutrals alone if the rfl hadn't held back the competing sides allocation. Now the two best supported sides cannot sell out Wembley with all their glory hunters despite Super Leagues increased crowds.
Maybe having the sport run by a bloke that took a club into administration and a guy from tennis was not the way forward

I'd say so does anyone actually believe that there were 78,482 in the ground yesterday....I don't.

I wonder how much of the 'attendance' was made up of Club Wembley , Tickets for Heroes , groundstaff , the entertainment , the kids teams and their parents on freebies etc etc etc .
I have always said that attendances should be counted by actual turnstyle clicks that have been paid for .
I think as things stand you can sell 10k season tickets for a 10k capacity stadium , hold an event in said stadium , and however few people actually turn up the attendance will be 10k because that is how many people have tickets for the event .

I have mentioned elsewhere about a large block of seats directly in front of me been empty because the roof was leaking . I guess it won't have been the only one .

The attendance was poor, given that the 2 teams involved have the biggest average in SL. It would appear that many who follow Leeds have become a little aloof after a short period of success and couldn't be bothered to support their team in what they thought was probably going to be a proper hammering.

There were never 78k in the stadium. Not sure how many club wembley seats there are (lets say 10k?) but it was less than 20% occupied. At the Leeds end, there were blocks of empty seats all over the place.

My guess is, that the official attendance assumes that all club wembley seats get taken (as they have effectively been sold for the event) and its the other empty seats that make up the non attenders.

I'd say about 70k.

Club Wembley can't be counted towards the attendance otherwise it would of been announced as a 90k sell out last year

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