Well someone had to kick off the 2015 edition of one of RL's favourite topics!


9269 at Widnes tonight, a lot higher than 6,223 for the same fixture last season, promising start!

From what I heard on the Radio, their best attendance for 10 years....

But lets not get over excited. The first game of a new structure and all that. Maybe in 10 games time we can start to see improvements.

You're in for it now. One night in July when one team has recorded a serious drop in comparison to last year's fixture then William will be on here at 10pm on a Friday night asking why UllFC isn't posting with such vigour as you've done tonight.

Also begs the question why William didn't show up and post at 00:01am on 01/02/2015 to remind us that the Eng/NZ series still doesn't have venues announced. I can only presume his blow up doll exploded on him and he's in hospital with rubber burns.

Well it took 3 posts but now the invitation to respond is there.

Fantastic start, lets be positive!

I think William is still at the opticians after mistaking thousands of people for empty seats at Wembley.

I'm all for being positive as you all know, but there are limits.

The previous crowd was 6,000+, tonight was 9,000+ and Eddie mentioned they gave 3,000 free tickets away to people trying to break a world record for the most people doing a workout at the same time tonight. You do the maths.

I enjoyed the game considering the game should have been over after half an hour.

Don't see any team really dominating things.

Spot on.

Widnes Vikings' attendance for Rd1 in 2014 - 5,327
Widnes Vikings' attendance for Rd1 in 2015 - 9,286

Not like you to put down attendances, did you log in under the wrong username?

Over 9,000 when the corresponding game last year got 6,200. On one of the most bitterly cold nights so far this year. On a Thursday.

That's pretty damn good, free tickets or not.

A majority of Professional and semi professional clubs in my opinion could do more to get bigger crowds. Its called match day awareness.

I have no issue with free or discounted tickets as long as they aren't used all the time, hopefully the 3k freebie fans saw that Widnes are a decent team in a competitive league and turn up again.