did someone choose to believe the BBC website attendance instead of someone who saw a pretty much full stadium and heard the announcement of the attendance as Ten thousand five hundred....?


my tip..............

read the sportinglife web site if looking for accurate reports on Rugby League

I was stuck in the queue also and I was there 10 mins before KO. Stewards absolutely useless, I suggested they let people in with tickets through the latecomers gate but that was obviously too "out of the box" for them.

I would like to thank that kind female Castleford fan who gave my daughter a free ticket.

Sportinglife has it as 7,577.

It would have saved a lot of queuing though. Maybe they should operate a system where one set of fans enter from one side and the others enter from the other.

Either way, it's over but to hear one of your fans complaining that it's been like that for the past 3/4 games is worrying.

Taken your advice oh wise one .... Sporting Life states an attendance of 7577!

Surely the BBC and Sporting Life can't be wrong .... or is it a case that your media bod provided the wrong info to the media? Anyway give you the benefit of the doubt ... there were 10,500 .... no lets pretend it was a capacity crowd .... surely it can't be so hard to count so few fans

Now are you sure the score was correct?

If all the people who seem sure there were only 7,500 there had turned-up the queues would have been an hour long not 20 minutes. See bottom of second paragraph: www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html Do people seriously think our attendance would have dropped by 3,000 over-night when we are 2nd in the table and in the semi of the challenge cup?

If all the people who seem sure there were only 7,500 there had turned-up the queues would have been an hour long not 20 minutes. See bottom of second paragraph: www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html Do people seriously think our attendance would have dropped by 3,000 over-night when we are 2nd in the table and in the semi of the challenge cup?

Mass queues, I've seen bigger queues at the NEXT sale.

and the one after that too

7,577


sky sports
7,577
BBC
7,57
cant all be wrong surely?

i don't know why alot of the different sites have the attendance as around 7K, it was deffo 10,500 from what i heard by the announcer,im sure a cas fan would verify this too?

ive noticed this alot with the wire attendances on various websites

Yup they all are.

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[urlhttp://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/10/07/11/RUGBYL_Warrington_Quotes.html[/url

yeah they can considering there were only few random seats available, the only real space in the ground was in the away end.

It's also reported on the Super leagues web site.
[urlhttp://www.superleague.co.uk/results.php[/url

My guess is they were all lazy in the press area thought it was 7,557 and all copied each other instead of actually looking around a mostly full ground.

Press Association have reported it wrong as it was a) announced as 10xxx and b) almost full.

Not sure why we feel the need to have to defend it to be honest.

They probably all use the same news agency, which could account for it.

Its was rather funny seeing the pies trying to mock something that wasn't even true and then carry on mocking it after being told it wasn't true and then go rather quiet.

I though I questioned it rather than mocked it, didn't I?

I have to admit i was annoyed at having to queue for 35 minutes, but there was no way there was 7500 there, 10500 is more like it

Yeh but superleague are saying there was only 846 at Hull KR.

Agreed. I was the same - in the queue before 2.45, got in at 3.15. The match had already kicked off when they finally decided to open another turnstile. It was pathetic really.

People slate our old, dilapidated stadium, but at least there are plenty of turnstiles and you can get in pretty quickly.

I was talking about the clueless lot on your board.

To be honest for anyone to have to stand and que for 30 minutes to get in is ridiculous. The club really need to take a look at why people where still queing to get in at 3.15 and make sure it doesnt happen again. Did they offer to let them in at a reduced rate because they had missed through no fault of there own part of the entertainment that they had travelled and paid to watch?

The farcical scenes outside the West Stand yesterday are an embarrassment to Warrington as a club. I see the usual arrogant sods on here have dismissed it as a load of idiots turning up too late from the pub or people not having tickets. That sums them up – “it didn’t affect me so I don’t care, I’ll just make facetious remarks and try and belittle those who have a genuine point”.

I go in the West Stand for every home game and there has never been this problem before at any other match. The turnstiles at the south end of the ground were closed, which isn’t unusual, but to have only one turnstile open (and then eventually two) at the north end was utterly ridiculous.

It was the lack of communication that infuriated most people. Not one steward anywhere to be seen, no one had a clue what was happening and why 6/8 turnstiles remained closed when there were 300+ people still queuing to get in at 3:10. Then at last, a steward appeared and told everyone that they were finally opening the turnstiles at the south end of the ground, which led to the predictable stampede. He directed everyone there but neglected to say that it would be ticket only, so when those paying cash arrived, they were told to go away, which enraged them since they’d given up their place in the queue on account of bogus advice given by a steward.

The very worst thing about yesterday was the female steward who was appeared on duty at the south end. Some angry Cas fans questioned her about the cash/ticket situation and pointed out that they’d come a long way to watch their team and still couldn’t get in. Her response was to laugh and say “Look - I don’t even like rugby”. This understandably enraged them further, so her next helpful comment was “I get paid £9 an hour to stand here, so you can say whatever you like”. At this point, I got into the ground with my ticket, but my friend had to advise a steward inside the ground that he’d better get out there before she caused a riot.

It’s this sort of thing that reflects very badly on Warrington as a club. The Cas fans were as angry as you’d expect, but despite some raised voices and obvious consternation, they weren’t swearing or getting physical and they were very well-behaved under the circumstances, so fair play to them. This isn’t the first time that I’ve had to put my head in my hands and think “what must other clubs make of us” and I’ll be writing a constructive, but pointed e-mail to the club about the matter.

Not that it will do any good.

Excellent post. I too stand in the West for all home games. Credit to the Castleford fans were very tolerant in the face of a total organisational brain fart. I shudder to think what the outcome would have been if it were Warrington fans queuing outside the Jungle 15 minutes after kick off.