Club Wembley definitely masked the numbers by 10k or so.

But there has definitely been a decline in neutral support, i've attended in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2017 with Hull, the crowd went down 82k to 68k in that time, 10k is Club Wembley, but theres still another 4/5k who have gone missing. The size of the Hull and Saints/Wigan support felt about the same from memory.

There needs to be some acceptance that when you're talking about an individual club's following, you're talking about clubs in a sport where even the biggest get maybe 15k at absolute best for home games. That's being generous too. For many clubs it's <10k. No club actually has 30k passionate fans, as evidenced by not a single ground in Super League requiring that capacity, and few if any games anywhere being sold out. This isn't a dig at "glory hunters" because without them we might as well play our finals in Huddersfield and no one wants that. What it means though is that if a club does take a 30k following to a final, a large number of them will be casual fans who have little or no interest in going every week. Those people will often not be up for going every single time once they've been before, so that explains the drop off. Wires fans used to slag off Wigan fans for not turning up, taking it for granted etc. We're now in a similar position as we go to our 11th major final since 2009. The fact that we've developed a habit of losing them obviously doesn't help, but that's a separate issue.

To be well attended these finals rely heavily on neutrals, and with so much else going on now - including withing RL with events like Magic - "Wembley weekend" is never going to be the big day out for thousands that it used to be.

I just hope RHP doesn’t run onto the field during the sport’s showpiece event as the match is being played.

Warrington by 8. We will choke

Saints by plenty.

Least the RFL cannot blame Catalan Dragons for disappointing gate today.

Warrington essentially have no halfbacks.

What a balls up by Hicks
Why would you chiose not to go to the video?

Maybe those death threats worked

Unforgivable not to go to the screen

Awful awful decision from Hicks. I wasn’t sure on first viewing whether he got it down or not but everyone knew it was close. Seemed like Hicks had decided it had gone dead before it actually had.

Brings into question whether Hicks was the right choice for the final. Was he really the best ref so far this year? Every time I’ve seen him he’s been poor.
Was he the best ref? Or was he the ref with a story to tell for the media?

It’s a bit quiet.

Barely anyone there. You need 2 of the big clubs in Hull, Leeds or Wigan to get a decent crowd

Are All the empty seats “belonging” to like season ticket holders who might go to any football game but aren’t bother about Rugby League???!!

Is hicks still under threat from Warrington?

Did not go to the screen for Knowles try. Gives a knock on against grace when it was a clear wire error.

Been done again there saints, came off wire players shoulder before Grace knocked on before that try.