Can't resist can you????

I wasn't asking for your permission. I just find it daft when people churn out the same old "I didn't notice the crowd, I was too busy concentrating on the game" line, when it is quite easy to notice the crowd at some point whilst concentrating on the game.

And there are plenty of breaks in play for me to be able to look around the stadium. Not to mention being able to look around before it actually started!

So be as patronising as you like, but your the one that wants to avoid talking about the crowd on a thread about... the crowd!

You really think 76,560 is poor?
Press boxes weren't full and god knows how many Club Wembley seast were empty.

Where did I say I didn't notice the crowd?
What I actually said was that I paid more attention to the game than the crowd. Please don't tell me you did the opposite.

I think it's a good crowd considering the sporadic "stop start" nature of the competition - spread over months and months of the RL calendar and for a competition that's supposed to be dying on it's ass. The BARB figures will also be interesting compared to previous years - there was quite a bit of TV advertising for this final last week.

This is nonsense. As much criticism as these get these are tickets that we wouldn't have sold otherwise. Without Club Wembley this crowd would have been nearer 70,000.

......................... and the match would have been played at the Milennium Stadium.

Whoooosh!
We're not talking about the seats that were taken. Some of the empty seats seen on television were in the Club Wembley section. Simple as.

You have seriously got to be kidding. I'm no fan of the Wire, but they must have had well over 30k fans there and the noise they made was phenomenal. I've been to a lot of CC finals going back to the 1970s and the Warrington support equalled or bettered anything that (say) Saints, Bradford or Leeds ever mustered.

The crowd was higher than any CC final away from Wembley, higher than quite a few of those in the 1990s (eg Saints/Bradford in 1996, Sheffield/Wigan in 1998, Wigan/Saints in 1991 plus others.)

62,000 for Saints Wigan at Murrayfield was much more embarrasing.

It didn't look amazing on TV because the gaps were in noticeable areas but it wasn't a bad crowd by any stretch of the imagination.

There are always going to be gaps in noticeable areas, because of club wembley. And if the people round me are anything to go by (including my kids I should say), at any given point during the match there's about 10 000 people nipped off to the loo or queuing downstairs for food & drink

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Going by those statements, Huddersfield seem to have been expecting support in the region of 17,000. Did this materialise? "“When we played in the 2006 Challenge Cup final against St Helens at Twickenham we took 13,000 fans.

“And there’s no reason at all why we won’t far exceed that figure this time around.”'"

I taped the match and have just finished the count - 16,767 Huddersfield fans.

By the way, can anyone tell me who won the match?

Only in rugby league could you have 7 pages (and counting) of hair-rending and gnashing of teeth bemoaning an attendance of 75K+

Thing is rugby union would have filled it so would have football so were does this leave the so called great era of super league?


Kill the roots kill the tree

Looks like a sport dieing on its feet

4 nations should be interesting

No they wouldn't. They couldn't even fill Old Trafford for an International with Argentina. Wembley is impossible to sell out for anything other than Football and NFL due to all this Club Wembley rubbish.

Then again, with a username like that, you're clearly deluded.