when we played at wigan earlier in the 8's i think the crowd was given as over 11,000 but there were clearly nowhere near 11,000 in the ground.

I would be surprised if any club doesn't include non-attending season ticket holders these days.

Everyone does that, from sports clubs to pop concerts and festivals.
If people buy tickets but don't turn up they don't get a refund do they?

They even do at a Wembley Stadium. Members (middle tier) are counted even though hardly any attend unless its England wendyball.

Looks like your Wakefield figures include the incorrect attendance of 9k+ given out for the St Helens game (pretty difficult given the capacity is 7850!). The actual attendance was 4104 making the season average 3626 i think.

Point of order.

William Eve has decided not to bother with posting his figures because other forums decided to publish them (mistakes and all) in their magazine. I posted these attendances because someone asked for them.....but now you've asked:

SL regular season attendances were down.....and the extra 10 games we've had to date have delivered around 75,000 attendees, so the seasons average has fallen even further when compared to 2014. Getting the same fans to attend more games is not a viable or sustainable business strategy....it is papering over the cracks.

I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but what we've had this year is the same fans attending more games, a drop in TV viewing figures and now what looks like a return to the heavy investment in purchased talent to gain promotion at the neglect and expense of club business and player development?

I'll get around to checking them all eventually, but St Helens had fewer fans at their 15 home games in 2015 than they did in 2014 and in the championship, Bradford Bulls were responsible for 33% of that ENTIRE divisions attendances....if they go up this weekend then the Championship averages will be decimated!

There are only 7 Super 8s matches to begin with!

Massive game, can't see past a Wakey win, but for SL and financial reasons I hope Bradford come back up.

NRL crowds this year

2015 crowd table

1. Brisbane 33,595 (+241)
2. Canterbury 19,684 (+4,259)
3. South Sydney 16,613 (-3,275)
4. North Qland 16,230 (+1,617)
5. Newcastle 15,891 (-1,725)
6. Sydney Roosters 15,661 (+1,559)
7. New Zealand 14,704 (-2,427)
8. Parramatta 14,699 (-4,089)
9. St George 13,651 (-2,405)
10. Melbourne 13,453 (-1,741)
11. Cronulla 11,925 (-706)
12. Wests 11,709 (-1,395)
13. Penrith 11,544 (+49)
14. Gold Coast 11,237 (-1,957)
15. Manly 10,955 (-1,65icon_cool.gif
16. Canberra 9,629 (+21)

4 clubs improved crowds, 10 clubs crowds reduced, 2 stayed about same.

Sourcehttp://afltables.com/rl/crowds/2015.htmlrl

Ive been logging the attendances all year of all 3 top divisions and in my mind the one that is the most important is the total average, which, including super 8s, was pretty much bang on 10,000 I think it was 9,997 if I worked it out right. This is significantly higher than last year which was about 1,000 less than that.

When you think as well that we had 24,000 at wigan/saints, 20,000 at hull derby, 40,000 at magic weekend and all the great Leigh and Bradford turnouts in championship, plus that 4,000 at Keighley than I think there should be optimism in the RL family this year.

This is all assuming the figures i got were correct of course =)

How many sell outs did Big Nige and his chum Blake predict as a KPI measure of success for 2015? How many was there??

Quote: The Changing Man " 2. So neither Wigan Saints or the Hull Derby sold out....and we didn't get the targeted 10 sell outs this year either. '" Wigan v Saints on Good Friday sold out - 24,054 www.wiganwarriors.com/match/report/229274

Quote: The Changing Man " 2. So neither Wigan Saints or the Hull Derby sold out....and we didn't get the targeted 10 sell outs this year either. '" Wigan v Saints on Good Friday sold out - 24,054 www.wiganwarriors.com/match/report/229274

Are you new to the RL family? Get back to predicting the death of RL just like the majority of RL fans for the last 100 years