So with a cost of living crisis and some increased ticket prices why do we think attendances are so good. Could the coverage on Channel 4 be helping to drive attendances to a wider audience. We have always had a good product but has never been marketed properly. Or are clubs upping their efforts to promote fixtures with the new IMG criteria’s on the horizon. Or is RL better Vanir than mother entertainment, football etc?

For me it's a mixture of Channel4 and the World Cup attracting new viewers, and also people feeling more confident to come back after the pandemic (2022 season tickets were on sale just as Omicron was on the march)

Saints are taking 2,000+ on safari to the far flung delights of Leigh for the Leopards game. Should be another top night at Leigh Sports Vegas.

Sell the place out, another defeat for Saints could be on the cards given the RFL's decimation of the squad this week.

At least some Leigh players will keep their heads on.

Cant wait to see what happens if Saints lose.

Shame that the deliberate headshot has been outlawed or you could be close to full strength.

Sounds a credible attendance however factor into that figure that it will include the stadium management company (SMC) allocated tickets which I believe is 2000 ( No one has to attend it is just included in the attendance figure announced ) this was contracted by the Hull FC chairman Adam Pearson.
Coupled with the fact that Hull FC were selling season tickets for the 2023 season for a merely £1 makes the “announced” attendance far less impressive touching on misleading.

2 stands already sold out for Wigan vs St Helens on Good Friday. Could be a capacity crowd.

Great to see. The exploitation of the fans isn't right though. Paying Premier League prices to watch Super League isn't right. £22 for an 8 year old to watch Wigan is just off the scale. We need to bring a cap in for prices, especially given you can get a season ticket for that stand for £58. Family of 5 weighing in at £120 plus transport, drinks etc is not on. Someone on Twitter posted that you can fly to Majorca and spend a night in a hotel for the same price.

I've seen a lot of Saints fans complaining about this on Twitter. Surely it is just a case of supply and demand, which means capitalising on profit from a business point of view?

There appears to be a lot of fans that claim to do anything to watch their beloved team, but pay a couple of quid more. Surely it costs more than £5 extra to travel to Hull.

You can't tell everyone that Saints provide a superior product and have a far larger following and then complain that there is a premium price for the high demand tickets. Or are you just defending your title as World Club Champions of whinging?

I completely agree that the club cant be criticised for prices when fans are buying tickets at those prices. The Good Friday derby will be a big money maker at a time when all RL clubs are hardly cash rich. Fans obviously have the choice not to pay but the demand is clearly still there for this particular game and it looks a safe bet to sell out (not a scenario RL finds itself in too often)

The issue comes when the demand is lower for games of lower stature. Having spoken to a director of the club about this - the club is keen to incentivise season ticket and membership purchases as much as possible. IMO though £30 for an adult match ticket and £22 for a child is too high for games and occasions of lesser quality. It doesnt make sense to me that prices are not set according to the stature of game and quality of occasion - finals are more expensive as they are a bigger spectacle and have more significance. I would have thought the same should apply to regular league games - Saints, Warrington, Leeds for example could be Band A matches and thus have higher prices. Prices could also be scaled according to where you are seated within a particular stand - it doesn't make sense to me that a seat on the front row in the corner of the East Stand is priced the same as mid way up the central block.

That's exactly the situation here. The lower priced tickets (behind the posts) have all been sold, and only the more expensive seats are left. Which are the ones everyone is complaining about, even though the prices haven't increased since going on sale.

If they wanted the cheap seats, they should have bought them before they sold out, imo.

4,793 for Cougars vs Bulls. Very good for the Championship.

Good points. It's fine to charge high prices if the demand is constantly there. But the knock on effect of this pricing is that both clubs will likely see a reduction in ticket sales for the next game. If you're a family spending £120+ on tickets for the derby, are you going to the next game, or missing that? A lot of people will be the ones who don't get season tickets as they can't afford them or can't make enough games to make them worth it. If the prices were more reasonable they'd go to more games, which in turn drives more season tickets if things go well. If Wigan have done the maths and are confident that extracting so much for one game is workable then that's one thing, but in an age where Premier League clubs are capping away prices, paying more for RL does seem odd. The big crowd will be great for Wigan, but it's also contributing to the games where three of the four stands are largely empty and the club announces a suspicious 10,000 gate which sets off a tidal wave of Latics fans laughing at them.