Any increase is a positive. End of story.

changing ends at half time, walking on the pitch! My god can you imagine the outcry if we tried to do that now! Health and Safety would have a baby!..stay off the yellow lines people!

Is it that simple ?

Presumably there is some factor (winning, attractive rugby) that causes an increase to the ST numbers. That same factor would perhaps also apply to non-season ticket holders.

So a guy that attends 4-5 matches may like what he sees and go to 7-8 matches the next year (rather than buy a ST) . Or someone reads about the success of the club and decides to try a couple of games, or is persuaded by his son. Or somebody may start watching Sky RL and see Warrington doing well, and decide to go to a live match.

So I suspect the reasons are in fact quite complex when you start to look into it.

I have the attendances as the list below with an average of 11,452, unless I've gone wrong somewhere;

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Compared to 2002 our average was 6189, including some terrible lows of 4190, 4416 and 4667.

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Only because people like you view it as such finishing top of league is still the hardest of all trophies shield to win, Its only devalued by SKY and those brainwashed into thinking it doesnt matter. lets face it the GF is just the same as say the regal trophy.

Oh and you have to play them games to challenge for a play off spot to be in contention, Do the qualifying rounds to the cc not mean anything because its only the final that counts ??

Get a grip people

Anybody new to RLFans should be given a SC warning....

looking at those figures I am surprised at the low figures for the visits of Wigan, Bradford, Hull and especially Leeds.

I have been saying for a while now that we need to be doing a lot more in the marketing department. It seems to me that most fans are from 'Warrington proper', with very few from the new town areas. This is something we should be targeting, get people who have moved to new areas like Chapelford along and capture their imagination. Like with Bullmania we need to make the Halliwell Jones the place to be, rather than just sitting back and hope the good football on the field will sell itself.

I think some people are overplaying the 'gift' of the Widnes game, take the 2k extra away and our average would still be higher than last year. By less, obviously, but still an increase...
We've been at the HJ nearly ten years, and we've almost doubled our Wilderspool averages, but as others have said, there's always more that can be done. However, times are hard, travelling support is down, so any increase should be applauded...

Wakefield should be commended for getting their crowds up this season, they have done a brilliant job.

The best way to increase attendances is to keep winning and add at least one Super League title to our CV. I always said throughout my teens that I never felt Warrington was a " proper" rugby town in the way that Wigan and St Helens were, because despite Wire being the only professional sports club in the town, I always felt RL was second to football in popularity whereas in Wigan and St Helens it was the other way round.

The key difference was that their teams were more successful than ours so more people were interested and wanted to watch them. I reckon there will be a bigger than 6% increase in season ticket sales next year if people are buying them to watch the champions. Success breeds support.