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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



Quote: pandamonium ".... other non-Leigh supporter.'"

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Quote: GansonTheClown "Looks like a pretty good crowd to me. Being outplayed though at the moment.'"

Its a great crowd, no doubt several posters will still find negatives with it.

Errors and discipline has cost The Wolfpack.

London have been the best team so far but I’m still confident Toronto will come good.

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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "Its a great crowd, no doubt several posters will still find negatives with it.'"


It's 6k at best.....great crowd but nowhere near the 9,600 argyle will tell them to announce icon_eek.gif bet 4-5K max and that's including the players and staff

maybe 9k tickets been given out but due to rain didn't turn up like Toronto

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9,000 ??,well i couldn't see no empty seats, plenty of slabs of concrete with no one sat on them though do they count ? icon_lol.gif

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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



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Isn’t the MPG a split gate? If so we may have some feedback from Broncos on number of paying customers.

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Quote: JackDiggle "Isn’t the MPG a split gate? If so we may have some feedback from Broncos on number of paying customers.'"


Don't buy the line that all the tickets were giveaways, much as some would have you believe.

And although some of the tickets were giveaways, the attendance was still four times what Broncos would have managed if the MPG had been played in London.

No harm done.

And congratulations to the Broncos. Visited Lamport three times this season, didn't whinge once. A class club with classy players. They won on the day.

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Quote: pandamonium "Don't buy the line that all the tickets were giveaways, much as some would have you believe.

And although some of the tickets were giveaways, the attendance was still four times what Broncos would have managed if the MPG had been played in London.

No harm done.

And congratulations to the Broncos. Visited Lamport three times this season, didn't whinge once. A class club with classy players. They won on the day.'"


Given other threads about the RFL operational rules and the MPG etc., how was it that TWP could give tickets away for this one, given that the RFL should have been setting the attendance prices for the game. I'm sure there's a good and valid reason, but I'm intrigued what it is?

Btw, given the announced attendance and the ground capacity, there would have been around 4% of seats not occupied (ie. hard to see an empty seat). It was a very good crowd, but certainly not at 96% capacity.

Also, given the enormity of the game, and so many fans in the ground, why would the PA announcer feel the need to start off any "Wolfpack" chants? Most grounds would be pandemonium (sic) with that many folk in attendance with such an important game underway.

See you next year.

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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



Quote: pandamonium "Don't buy the line that all the tickets were giveaways, much as some would have you believe.
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250 tickets offered to my mate at PJ's...he reckons he has 150+ left.....literally couldn't give them away. I have no issue with freebies BTW.......what ever fills the ground, but not a chance in hell there were 9k there yesterday

Quote: pandamonium "Btw, given the announced attendance and the ground capacity, there would have been around 4% of seats not occupied.'"

I said Argyle would make them declare 9K+......the far stand was less than 50% full....6k at most in there.....and now he's got 13 teams to pay for next year icon_lol.gif icon_lol.gif icon_lol.gif

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The attendance was over 9000, you can keep repeating your 6000 figure all you want, it doesn’t make it true.

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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "The attendance was over 9000'"

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Toronto v Batley in Copenhagen?

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Quote: HXSparky "Given other threads about the RFL operational rules and the MPG etc., how was it that TWP could give tickets away for this one, given that the RFL should have been setting the attendance prices for the game. I'm sure there's a good and valid reason, but I'm intrigued what it is?'"


No idea, you'd have to ask the club. All season ticket holders got two free to the MPG as a thank-you gesture which we thought was a great move. How they squared it with RFL isn't my concern. Of my friends that attended, about half paid. Also, several bought season tickets for next year, so the free tickets are bringing in new, paying fans.

Quote: HXSparky "Btw, given the announced attendance and the ground capacity, there would have been around 4% of seats not occupied (ie. hard to see an empty seat). It was a very good crowd, but certainly not at 96% capacity.'"


The 9600 ground capacity is set by fire and safety regulations. It isn't the number of actual bums you could possibly squish onto the bleachers. There aren't actual seats. Pointing out the unoccupied ends of the stadium keeps a lot of people amused but isn't the whole story. It was definitely the biggest crowd yet, after a wet morning and on a holiday that's traditionally set aside for a big family dinner.

Quote: HXSparky "Also, given the enormity of the game, and so many fans in the ground, why would the PA announcer feel the need to start off any "Wolfpack" chants? Most grounds would be pandemonium (sic) with that many folk in attendance with such an important game underway.'"


Because we were losing?

Quote: HXSparky "See you next year.'"


Most definitely.

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JESUS WEPT :WALL: HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover. There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT::d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg



Quote: pandamonium " Of my friends that attended, about half paid. Also, several bought season tickets for next year,'"

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