Barrow won it in their first season!

Think the Fax average is likely to rise through the season now, the new stand is attracting better crowds, we have had over the 3000 mark now, it will be well above that if we can do well this season too

I know this is irrelevant but does anyone know what the figures are for the RU championship?

No, Fev got promoted in 2007 at the same time as Celtic Crusaders.

Leigh didn't average 5k? really and pray tell me how you know this or do you just randomnly make things up....you are richard lewis and I claim my fiver

We actually averaged 5500 which baring mind we had the worst coach ,boardroom , ground in history not to mention the worst collection of journeymen since celtic clowns I thought the public backed it pretty well.

But hay ho we now have a shiny new ground ,a proven coach, a respected chairman and are now starting a fresh with crowds climbng each week.

But I'm sure when the pantomine that his franchise season kicks in,tricky dicky will over look it

You obviously do randomly make things up, Leigh averaged 4,736 in their one season and only had crowds as high as 5,500 three times (against Warrington, Wigan and St Helens).

Whether it was 4736 or 5500 is of little difference when you consider that even the lower of the two is still higher than Salford and Quins can muster so either of those as an average would be better than two of the present incumbents.

Completely agree.

Leigh never had an attendance in SL below 3100, and considering the hidings we got, them figures are commendable, plus we had a 4000 restriction at Hilton Park (12-000 to 8-000!).

There are some poorly suported teams this year in SL (Including St Helens IMHO). Non P&R is completely ruining the game. No relegation battles = Pish poor attendances !!

Before i start, this post was supposed to be positive (we can be positive in RL without slating each other) Leigh didnt average 5500 like you said, but also someone said the crowds decreased as the season went on. Wrong, this is Leigh where everything works backwards, they went up.

I think once we had admitted our fate that we were down, we got rid of the rubbish aussies and played leythers like the duffy brothers, chris hill and the james taylor quartet and it was really good to watch them play their hearts out, especially JT away at Saints!

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to be fair though the last 8 home games for leigh consisted of leeds ( twice) saints (twice) wigan, warrington, widnes and salford, im not knocking leigh at all but all apart from 2 games were against local teams,4 against big local teams and 2 games against the champions
i agree totally about the non P+R ,i think it was a poor decision by the powers that be,but i dont think any of the current championship clubs (apart from widnes) could sustain decent crowds.

Of which only Wire and the Pies brought any sizeable away following , in fact I would guess that Leigh took almost as many fans away as came to Hilton park that year

halifax with the stadium completed now (it never was in super league days) i think would see a massive increase

Barrow seem to struggle to break through the 2k crowd barrier, despite playing very very well and a couple of very successful seasons.

fair point, but im sure leeds,saints and widnes would have brought more than london,wakefield,castleford and wakefield though? that was my point. kind of

what i did find interesting is how the crowd figures seem to fluctuate wildly in the "national leagues" compared with super league,or maybe its just me?
hull kr for instance in 2006 had an average of 3,389 in their promotion year and the next season it had jumped upto over 7,000 which of course is understandable giving that they were now playign top flight rugby league.
doncaster however in 2007 had an average of 1,680 but those supporters seem to have disappeared just as quick as the hull kr supporters appeared, now they are pulling in less than 400 if im right?
im not saying there's a link with the 2 im just saying how one club's crowds can rocket whilst the others bomb back down to earth and these 2 were the obvious examples
also very sad to keighley struggling to get even anywhere near 1,000 average before this season,we said at the time the RFL could have killed off something big when they did what they did to the cougars and its been proven sadly,the buzz around cougar park in the 90's with thousands of colourful fans packing the ground was a wonderful sight and years before its time (even though we had a massive rivalry with them at the time) you couldn't help but respect what they did there