Absolute bollox! Less than 4,000 bothered v anyone at Leigh other than Bradford and London this season...and London was flogged off with free tickets. Leigh (or pretty much any other team for that matter) have never taken 4k on the road, even if it is next door and to claim as much is just daft.

You won't get off the car park in 10 mins !

Quote: Molly Malone "Absolute bollox! Less than 4,000 bothered v anyone at Leigh other than Bradford and London this season...and London was flogged off with free tickets. Leigh (or pretty much any other team for that matter) have never taken 4k on the road, even if it is next door and to claim as much is just daft.'" There was 4000ish Leigh fans at the Wire game. Sold out the entire end plus given a seating section at the side too. It is madness that so many show up for the 'big' games that don't turn up week to week but that is how it goes. Our job now is to turn the one day wonders into regulars. We are heading in the right direction and good performances like at Wire will only help to encourage the big game fans to hopefully start attending more home games. www.ladbrokeschallengecup.com/ne ... cle/43881/ "Confidence abounds among Centurions fans with the club's initial ticket allocation of 3,500 having been snapped up and many more likely to make the eight-mile journey to the Halliwell Jones Stadium." So not 'absolute bollox' at all.

Quote: Molly Malone "Absolute bollox! Less than 4,000 bothered v anyone at Leigh other than Bradford and London this season...and London was flogged off with free tickets. Leigh (or pretty much any other team for that matter) have never taken 4k on the road, even if it is next door and to claim as much is just daft.'" There was 4000ish Leigh fans at the Wire game. Sold out the entire end plus given a seating section at the side too. It is madness that so many show up for the 'big' games that don't turn up week to week but that is how it goes. Our job now is to turn the one day wonders into regulars. We are heading in the right direction and good performances like at Wire will only help to encourage the big game fans to hopefully start attending more home games. www.ladbrokeschallengecup.com/ne ... cle/43881/ "Confidence abounds among Centurions fans with the club's initial ticket allocation of 3,500 having been snapped up and many more likely to make the eight-mile journey to the Halliwell Jones Stadium." So not 'absolute bollox' at all.

What a load of old carp that comment is.

Leigh took more than 4,000 to Wire for the CC QF.

Ticket sales were announced by the Club & sold out twice, that's the 1st & 2nd allocations.
The away terrace was choc full & there were some in an adjoining seated section, so Nozzy is spot on.

Watching the match back on Sky+ actually showed the Wire home attendance to be quite poor by comparison.

If we are going well in the Qualifiers, you can expect to see 3 > 4,000 Leigh fans to travel to both Salford & Widnes.

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Hi @theredviking

Not visited for a while.

Actually you are correct, it was an oversight to discount Widnes fan base, although given your SL position your home average attendance is not significantly higher.
I seem to remember that when both our clubs were in Championship, the home average attendances were only marginally higher at Widnes & in the year you secured a Licence to SL, your owner Director, Steve Whatsisface gave away hundreds of tickets at many home games to gain Licence points & boost both the attendance average & the application chances. Nothing wrong with that & in fact a shrewd move.

So yes, you're correct, not insignificant & at least as a RL Club you have a solid & loyal fan base.

Good luck in the 8's & FWIW I hope you stay up *but lose to Leigh* (Again).

just a quick one on Leigh's support, as good as it is for that level, how many would they be getting had they not been top of the league and on that long unbeaten streak and going well in the cup? i'm pretty sure no Leigh fan would ever mention taking 4,000 to an away game, same with Bradford whose away followings in their last couple of years in super league were pitiful ( for them) and same with any team, people want to be associated with success and a winning team.
i suspect that if Leigh got promoted and became a middle of the table SL club there wouldn't be that much of an increase in attendances from what they are now.

Of course it is because we are going so well. Home support has roughly doubled over the past 2 years and our away support is probably roughly doubled too.

Wire game was a particularly big following for a number of reasons. The great run in the league, great run in the cup knocking out London, Salford and Wakey. A CC QF is huge for a Championship side and Wire is close, easy to get to and seen as a big team. Pushing Leeds so close the year before won't have hurt either.

FWIW I don't think we'll take that sort of support in the 8's except to Widnes (big rivalry) and then only if it is still 'important' as being the last game it could be settled one way or the other by then. Obviously if we are away in the Million Pound Game i'd expect us to take 4000+ anywhere.

I'd hope we'd take at least 1200 to Fax - good away game, not a huge distance but somewhere we go every year and the one people will miss if they are picking and choosing.

1800 maybe 2000 to Salford - add or subtract a few hundred if we do particularly well/badly v HKR

Widnes i'd hope for anything between 2000 for a 'dead rubber' to 3000+ if promotion spot is on the line. Always used to love going to Widnes. 1st fixture i'd look for every year before the buggers got promoted.

Leigh's home attendance will be hit by the fact that two of our games are on TV but that's ok the TV deal will make up for it... www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... tv-9793378

Leigh's home attendance will be hit by the fact that two of our games are on TV but that's ok the TV deal will make up for it... www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... tv-9793378

I think the Leigh games will be well attended across the board other than maybe the Sheffield game.

Hull KR at home is the first game, and with them being in the cup final, they may bring a fair few on the back of the Wembley "feel good" factor. (And it could be the perfect chance for Leigh to overturn them).
Salford away is local.
Wakey at home will be seen as a big chance to upset a SL team (again).
Halifax away is just down the road.
Bradford at home will possibly be a huge game in terms of deciding who is in the "Million Pound Game."
And again, Widnes away is a local game.

An exciting schedule for a Leigh fan. And a Bradford fan for that matter. After Sheffield, they've got all four SL clubs on the bounce. If they can pull off an upset in those four weeks, the Leigh game will be huge. If not, and they lose to Leigh, it would pretty much be curtains for them (5 losses on the bounce).

Pressure is mostly on Wakey though, who have the two lower ranks on the last two weeks and the two potential upsets in round two and three.

As a neutral, I'm very much looking forward to this set of games. Been a while since I've been as interested in a domestic set of fixtures that haven't involved Hull.

I know exactly how many they will bring this year.

Fair enough...apology proffered although I still think the original statement that Leigh travel in big numbers regularly isn't supported by the Championship attendances this year.
In better news, SKY New Zealand have a dedicated sports channel just for the end of the Season starting this weekend......

No pressure on us, everyone is expecting us to go down
TRINITY FOREVER

Oh the irony of a fan of the best supported team in RL

Does the fact that my post is factually correct and therefore shows that "Leigh fans don't actually travel in batches of 3k"make you uncomfortable?
It must do because you feel the need to point and laugh at another clubs attendances to make you feel less uncomfortable.