Quote NickyKiss="NickyKiss"Yeah just heard that now which is pleasing.
I saw a clip of the Roosters vs Saints game at Langtree Park earlier and there must have been less then 15,000 there, so we’re not doing bad in the Grand scheme of the world club challenge. We used to travel over to Huddersfield for the Bradford WCC games in the past and I don’t recall them being full so the crowd already looks more then acceptable.
The weather isn’t playing ball though! It’s meant to be 14 degrees on Sunday. I was hoping we’d get below freezing.'"
Records say nearly 18k for saints against south's
21k 19k and 19k for Bradford.
Fair play to Leeds they took 3 games to elland road but from their first which was 33k their last was 27k so dropped 6k.
Their last 3 achieved 21/20/19k
So as I said on a previous thread 4/5 weeks ago when posters were getting on the negative side (once again without relating things to facts) that any Thing 19k plus would be very positive.
A lot of people are obsessed with the term "sell out".
If we had 15k it would be a sell out at Wolf's, butndisappointing at Wigan?
If we sell 24k but play in a 50k stadium people say it's disappointing.
Whilst I do think our average last year was a bit disappointing it still beat most of the attendances we had in 2000-2004 When we had Farrell/Robinson/lam/renouf/Newton/Dallas etc. etc.
I think getting back to 13k short term should be the aim - 14 -16k should be our mid to long term goal.
But the game itself needed to change to help with this, the first signs are there with the takoever and some of the rule changes etc. but it will take time.