The Wigan game was a few days after Saints away - after which we more or less knew we would be LIKELY to end up second in the table regardless of the result that day - and Wembley was on the horizon so people were saving dough. It was also televised.

Given all those factors I thought 13,800 was a decent attendance - a sell out would have been less than that last year.

Competitiveness always makes an impact too. I knew I couldn't go V Huddersfield last week no matter what because I was out of the country, but Widnes away this week brings about a dilemma. At the start of the season (or indeed immediately after their promotion was confirmed) if you had asked me what fixture I was most looking forward to this year I would have said "Widnes away". However, now it has come around it is a meaningless fixture, and we've got two home play off games to come plus hopefully the Grand Final, and possibly an away match too depending on week one and two results. I won't be missing any of those games (appropriate days off work were booked months ago so I'm safe no matter when we play) but that makes a dead rubber at Widnes in the meantime an expense I can do without. I might still go, but I might not either. We'll see.

Surely it's understandable why anyone would choose to swerve games - home or away - for cost reasons when they have little or nothing riding on them though? Saville Row wouldn't obviously, because he's a true fan, but I'd wager the crowd on Sunday - and the travelling support in particular - isn't as big as it would have been if we played this fixture earlier in the season.

Does anybody know if we get some sort of financial compensation for televised home games ?

We have been televised an awful lot this year.

If you do go, will you wear this? it's boss lar

That T-shirt + medal = Saville Row's match day attire.

How much impact do the televised games have on attendance? If someone had solid figures you might be able to put a case for some compensation. I've gone through my list again though, and we don't have the most home games, I accidentally included our Magic game. Here's the list to bore everyone withTelevised Games (inc. Magic games as Away for all)
Warrington = 13 (5 home)
St Helens = 12 (6 home)
Leeds = 12 (5 home)
Wigan = 11 (6 home)
Bradford = 9 (5 home)
Hull FC = 9 (3 home)
Hull KR = 8 (3 home)
Wakefield = 7 (4 home)
Widnes = 7 (3 home)
Catalans = 7 (2 home)
Huddersfield = 6 (4 home)
Castleford = 6 (1 home)
Salford = 5 (2 home)
London = 4 (2 home)

I'm wondering if I have a Cas game the wrong way around, as shouldn't there be at least 2 home games for each team?

Ha ha that's what it will be. Thousands of Warrington fans stayed away because they didn't want to miss out on their wife's / mum's culinary offerings...

"Gonna give the match a miss tonight muckoh, those oven chips are never as nice out of t'microwave"

When you tea at 4.45, surely you mean late lunch or early dinner, unless of course you actually had earl grey and sandwiches one and three quarter hours late !

You my friend, have officially, become Southern

Clubs can actually choose to report either the actual number of spectators who have come through the turnstiles OR report the attendance based on the number of tickets sold. They can also change which method they choose game to game. As an example, we've had a number of games where the attendance was published as 13,024 (Pre extension full house) where there have been empty seats. Maybe we've reported more of the former this season?

Yes , being an old bu**er , i like my cucumber sandwiches at a set time ! I don't eat at Maccies or KFC !
4 45 kick off is neither afternoon or evening .

Widnes Vikings

W 46 - 12

Home
5/4/2012 and

W 68 - 4

Etihad Stadium That's definitely 2 games on SKY...

Yeah well done.