To put another slant on things about away fans, they are much more important to the lesser clubs in our game. For instance, looking at Oldham's attendance figures last season, the average attendance for teams who don't have many travelling fans (Dewsbury, Batley, Toulouse, London and Sheffield) was around 550. The average for the other teams, which includes local derbies (Swinton, Halifax, Featherstone, Bradford, Rochdale and Hull KR) was around 1,000.

Accepted that away fans are less important financially to the top clubs, but vital for the likes of Oldham, where away supporters accounted (if we assume that the lower attended games had just 50 away supporters) for around a third of turnstile traffic for their home games last season.

In terms of attendances for Toronto fixtures, I'm sure we'll see something of a boost in attendances this year (albeit not as clear cut as last year), but I suspect that this will be mainly down to a combination of novelty factor and the fact that they'll be a team that most clubs' fans will want to beat. I doubt we'll see this skew in numbers after the novelty wears off in future seasons (regardless of what league they're in).

Fair point, a bit like Wigan and Hull playing SL games in Aus. They can muster a decent following the first time around but would struggle to repeat that on an annual basis.

We just did to Hull KR, but what would you know.

You couldn't write it. They really are clueless.

Yeah because semi-pro clubs got to see pro players. You don't really understand context, do you?

So there we have it. Toronto are already a bigger club than Wakefield and Leigh lol

Regards

King James

Really? Where are you playing on June the 30th?

Lamport Stadium......... [sizeIF[/size it's ready.

So they do have a ground you've just decided in your mind that it won't be available.

Toronto will give Leigh such a pasting on June 30 at Lamport Stadium, that the 20 Leigh fans in attendance will be wishing that they had not flown over there.