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!

Bodies everywhere!!!

Some thoughts here viewtopic.php?f=35&t=453025

Some thoughts here viewtopic.php?f=35&t=453025

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

In the years before the promotion year HKR struggled to get 2000 when Leigh, Widnes etc were far higher

Not so, this season crowds are slightly up on the same stage as last season ( APPROX 8% ) and we still have the bigger more attractive sides to visit CP.

Using statistics this early in the season never paints a true picture.
Their's always damn lies & statistics

This is why it is unfair to have digs at championship clubs for crowds. Widnes would average over 8,000 with a half decent season in super league. They may even be close to sell-outs against local teams.

Really!!!!