Giants fans who weren't there and Huddersfield public in general hang your heads in shame sky weather etc no excuse we have a team that can win something for the first time for 50 years that figure is an insult to the financial backing ken Davy has put in over the last 15 years to drag our great club back from being a laughing stock to a serious force in the game ask yourselves if our town deserves it. Please get there on Friday if it isn't too hot cold wet etc we have a big chance of going back to the top of super league I'm sure the wigan public won't let their team down

Poor turnout i agree but it was never going to attract a decent number because of a lot of factors.
The huddersfield public have no interest in the giants we know that already.
Im sure they will all be queuing for semi final tickets tho

Was never ever gonna be anything half decent today due to 3 things - the opposition, the live tv screening and the price............

Frankly I'm embarrassed. We can be playing the best rugby on the planet but the only thing that other fans will go on about are our pathetic crowds. Mot looking forward to the jibes from rhinos fans tommorrow. Sorry but unless you are working or genuinly skint ie out of work no excuses.

People could do without a couple of pints and a takeaway to find the money. If you don't put the money into the club the club won't be winning silverware.

After seeing over 4000 town fans travel to MK dons for a 12.30 kick off yesterday lunchtime i think we can all see where the Huddersfield public's sporting interests lie.

Q. Do I want to spend £30 watching a low intensity game when I can watch it at home?
A. No

Hth.

I don't get it. I can understand a lower attendance than we have been getting in the league but come on. We talk about having the 5000-6000 core fans then the floaters who watch us and town or only come for the better opposition. Everytime we get make progress 2000 over a wakey, close to selling out our allocation for magic weekend, 1000 over at Catalans we come up with something dire like this! We can't force people to come and like I said I expected lower but 4000 of our own missing fans....poor. let's hope the Wigan game on Friday sparks the passion and we pull a big crowd! Up the fartown

I went but there were plenty of factors to affect yesterdays attendance. 2 RL games on TV(ours included), some footy on tv too so I hear, paying £15 to watch our boys run riot over a poor SL team which doesn't get the juices flowing. In 39 years i've only missed 3 home games and even I was in 2 minds whether to go to the game. We'll see most of our fans on Friday night in the big one but then again it's on SKY so there'll be a few who stop at home or have work commitments. We'll take more fans to Salford in the semi final that we had at home yesterday.

It was about what I would expect. Wigan Saints only attracted 12,000. I say only because last year the league fixture between the two teams at the DW attracted 24,000. It's all about scale.

We usually get 5,000+ against London for a league fixture, Challenge Cup games attract significantly less than league games. Why would anyone expect 5,000 for this match given those parameters?

Exactly

The issue is that people pay to see their rugby in Different ways these days, with most fans being season ticket holders so when we are called on to pay for a game then it's time to consider all the factors

Clubs would probably go along way to making CC fixtures part of the season ticket costs, if all clubs do it then no one loses out and gate money is still easily shared
But until then the cups, and the playoff games are going to be poorly supported

People have decisions to make about finances. A second home game not covered by a season ticket in the space of a fortnight is a lot to ask of people.
What that does mean is that there's one set of people you can blame for the low crowd yesterday: the Conservative party

Most of our fans have probably paid around £100 for their season ticket this season - thats 13 home games, works out about £8 a game - the problem with cup games is that that person is then expected to pay £15 to watch that one game - our 2 home cup games have been against much weaker opposition where,and quite rightly in the end, people expected walkover wins for us !!, if there's a family your talking £40 ish for each round of the cup.

You cant just say the Giants are playing at home therefore everyone should go to the game if you are a fan - it doesnt work like that. The people who were missing will be there on Friday because the game is already paid for and more attractive to the casual fan.

I used to think for some clubs CC attendances are an indication of support they might attract if they were in the championship or even performing poorly in SL and charging average season ticket prices. Now I'm not sure cos two and a half thousand looks on the high side for Hudds

Are you London in disguise!!!! Never will be a big club

500 more for Widnes-Saints and not a word spoken when that happened. Illuminating.