Back to the threadJuly 3-5th

Les Cats 9,007
Celtic 3,231
Hull 11,780
Salford 4,808
Wigan 14,977
Bradford 8,971
Hudds 7,486

Rd Total

Heinz bought a load of seats in the north stand and gave them to employees IIRC

I must admit to being disappointed with Huddersfield's averages this year, and I'm sure Ken Davy is.

Their average season to date is around 300 higher than 2008's average, and this despite the revolutionary season ticket offer.

Some of their crowds this year have been lower than the corresponding fictures last year, and this despite the fact that they are now 3rd in the league.

What more is there for the Hudds club to do? They have cheap season tickets, free admission for kids under 16, and not a bad team on the field.

Seems a bit disappointing to me, and I'm sure the club were hoping for much much better.

Guess it comes dow to profile in the town and making the game day experience one that the whole family wants to be at and that the kids insist on going along to.

We've got the following at home, all decent draws with travelling fans so i would expect us to better our avg by season end
v Bulls 8,900
v FC 10,100
v St's 8,900
v Wolves 8,500

Concerning that our crowds are down by 20% - genuinely at a loss to explain it.

Yeh with the season Wakey are having I would have thought they would be up not down. Mindst you the same can be argued for us and Hudds! No understanding Rl fans sometimes!

But look at the figures that Bilko has provided. Compared to your attendances last season Celtic are up 78% and your only up 16.8% - surely you must be concerned as to why being in SL isn't drawing in much bigger crowds?

With Huddersfield, I suspect their might be a suggestion that home fans numbers have risen, but the numbers seen from visiting fans have actually dropped in some cases

You paid over 3 grand for a season ticket?

It's not that much of a concern, we all know why it's the case. United and City on our doorstep, the fact that we're not very good and most people in the area would rather be armchair football fans than come and support a team they see as going nowhere. Add that to many Salford fans getting p*ssed off at things behind the scenes at the club to the point where they've stopped going and we're fighting an uphill battle.

Celtic and their crowds is a completely different situation to Salford, so you can't really compare the two. It won't stop anyone, I know, but still.

The fact is though, our crowds are up. It might not be much of an improvement, the crowds may well still be very low compared to the rest of SL. But it's a step in the right direction. If we can hang on to most of our squad, make a few improvements and get this bloody ground built... Well, that'll be the time to judge us on crowd improvement. Until then, just take heart in the fact that we are slowly improving them. After all, the whole point of franchising was to judge us after the three years, not part way through the first.

To be fair though the deal only ran for a limited time IIRC and matchday tickets havent gone down so its not attracting away fans to games, so the deal only benefited a few if that