Less than 1400 on. Too much competition on Sundays these days to attract new fans. We need 2000 every home match to keep the club on a sound financial footing. So far in 2012 there was only one game that acheived above that figure, and that was played on a Friday night with only 200 away fans attending. Time to banish Sunday kick offs to the bin.

Agreed, at a loss as to why it was so low today and Friday's can't be any worse. From a personal point of view it does mean one less attendee for evening games as it's too late for my 4 year old to attend, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out.

its the NRC , not everyones cup of tea, we lost last week which will have knocked a couple of hundred off too. The next games a THursday night on TV, I reckon we'll get about 1500 on.

A football cup final free to watch and our result last weekend was the reason for a below par gate today.

NRC not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure they'll be joining the queue for tickets if we get to the final!

Totally agree Sundays are a compleat waste of time people are working through out the week and they find other things to do Sat / Sun and with football / angling and other pastimes takin place over the weekend the best nights by far are Thurs / Fridays in my opinion no chance whatsoever of getting decent crowds playing on a Sun

Different reasons for different gates and the arguments of counter attractions on Sundays could equally be levelled at Friday night fixtures.

The harsh realities are we play in a unattractive league and the current cup competition is not of interest to the majority until the semi final stages, the games ruling body and clubs need to look at the NRC as we have a (rare) loyal sponsor at this level but we need to ensure the competiton isn't just a means of 'giving money' to clubs due to a small regular league season - supporters won't/ aren't buying into it (and never have done).

Friday evening KO when for the longer daylight parts of year are perfect. KO time should 8pm IMO though.

As for NRC - I just can't see why the 1st and 2nd places can't mean more when knock out stages draw is made. ie if you finish top of group you avoid other teams that finish top, and get home draw as well.

Be a decent shout if we do.
I think that nights counter attractions include Manchester United and Manchester City both live on TV.
I think so long as the team are playing well (If not winning) and we can get the odd gate over the 1,800 or 2,000 threshold to keep the books tidy then we will be doing alright, all lower league live sport is taking a bit of a bashing at the minute so if we can keep our heads above the water we will be doing ok.

Obviously dissapointing today to get less than 1400 , and like lots of things I dont think it is down to just one thing, and probably isn't solvable by changing just one thing

Today will most likely be our last ever home group game in the NRC, next season we will have 13 home league matches, so hopefully that wont be an issue again

Yes we were up against a football cup final, and perhaps in hindsight it might be prudent to avoid similar situations in the future if we can

Finally we have the ' when do we play ' conundrum? , this is perhaps the most difficult to answer, there is no easy answer, we cannot please everbody , all we can probably do is ' suck it and see '

Be interesting to see what happens next season.
The original scope of these games at the outset seemed to be derby games and if you look at the few decent attendances in the group stages thus far then the Cumrian teams seem to be the only ones scraping above a 1,000 fans as they have had a few local interest games.
I think sometimes we as Leigh fans forget just how bad things arewhen we (correctly) look at our gates - most clubs are struggling to get 800 for these games.
A format that ensured as many derby games as possible took place should have happened this season, I realise it would have involved the odd club being in the wrong group but maximising gate potential and keeping travel costs to clubs to a absolute minimum should have been the order in the group games IMO.

Well I went today with my 2 daughters, I like Sunday games. Fridays are no good for me so I and the family won't be going. The only thing that will bring in more suppporters is free flowing rugby, a winning team rather than one man stuff.

Too much competition on Sundays to be a success. When RL switched from Saturdays to Sundays there was no competition. Football was never played on Sundays, shops closed all day on Sundays, pubs closed at 3 0'clock and didn't open until 7 o'clock, no pubs served food, you had the choice of watching "The Love Boat" or going to watch the Rugby. Now we have all day opening of pubs, the majority serve food, all the big football games are played on Sunday at 1 o'clock and 4 o'clock, the Trafford centre, shops open until 5 o'clock, sport on 24hr tv from around the world, summer rugby clashing with family bbqs etc,etc,etc.

And we only have two teams this side of the pennines. What would I like to do on a Friday night let me see drive across the M62 urrrr nope. Maybe we should just forget away fans and have a home crowd only. That might allow us to have fewer stewards maybe a good cost cutting exercise.

Not worth bothering about away fans until they start bringing significant numbers - even an extra hundred home fans on a Friday night would wipe out the entire away support of most clubs. Having said that, we take similar numbers away from home on a Thursday night as we do on a Sunday so in reality it won't make much difference to the away support anyroad when bearing that in mind.