Ticket prices are exceptionally low when compared to other sports. Middlesbrough fans were charged £48 for their game at Utd for example. T20 cricket tickets are usually around £40 for decent seats (not even Internationals) and England RU tickets are extortionate in comparison.

As some have said, we drop the prices by £10 say and it isn't like 10,000 fans come flooding back. It's literally the same people every week until Saints and wire come to town. Apart from one season, the Cas following is usually poor so I doubt we priced that many out.

Love to see the meltdowns if we charged the prices other sports/events charge.

It is £37 to sit in the centre of the South Stand at Leeds, £32 to sit in the 'wings' and £36 to sit behind the posts.

EDIT: We are also cheaper than Saints (£30.50) and Warrington (£31 pre-pay £33 matchday)

Dropping prices certainly won’t see a flood of people coming back but banging them up won’t either.

Maybe the way forward is putting certain games in categories. You mention cricket and t20 games. We play Yorkshire at Old Trafford and yes the tickets are £35 upwards but then there are games categorised lower than that which start at £20 and at least one game is £5 for any seat (I’m not saying we do that by the way).

Should a Thursday night game against Cas be the same price as a Friday night against Saints for example? Other sports would suggest not.

Categories are certainly an option yes, but if it's the same people coming you just lose money. You'll never truly know the difference for like for like games at different prices though (the club might)

I agree that we do under sell the sport sometimes and there is an element that the cheaper you keep making it, the cheaper the sport looks but I’m sure it’s something they’ve considered. I guess all options will be on the table with the new marketing exec in place. The Thursday games coming thick and fast at the start of this season hasn’t helped things and it’s those I’d probably target with a lower category. A Saints game is a Saints game and unless it comes at a time when there’s not a great deal on the line/a huge gap between the clubs , people in the main won’t have a problem paying prime money for a prime fixture.

Ultimately we all want the same thing, for crowds to start going up again. There’s no magic formula sadly and I suppose the main factor will be what happens on the field.

On the theme of attendances, only 2,627 at Wire today. We thought we had it bad.

Sad to see most of the crowds really but that’s a real bad one. It’s when you see teams like Whitehaven and Barrow getting crowds well in excess of their standard weekly crowd that you realise what the game is potentially missing out on by keeping superleague teams out of the comp until this stage. I used to love visits to grounds of teams not in superleague (I remember games at Batley, Barrow, Dewsbury, Keighley and the like a cracking trip to Limoux in 2004) but the chances of getting one of those now is 50/50 and for this one round only (unless there’s a shock or 2 lower league sides draw each other).

Barrow 3,135
Catalans 3,624
Hull kr 3,088
Leeds 5,112
Sheffield 1,039
Warrington 2,627
Whitehaven att not given
Wigan 6,005

4,900 ish at Whitehaven I read somewhere

And there is a very good reason for this.

As it was an FA Cup game, the gate receipts are split 50/50 after deductions, and as all Man Utd season ticket holders are forced to buy a ticket as part of the T&C of holding a ST, then every visiting club takes an allocation of up to 10,000 then pockets 50% of the 65,000 home fans who also have to pay top whack.

75,000 at £45 a head for adults generates over £3.3m. Even with concession prices and deductions, the visiting club walk away from a cup tie at Old Trafford with a cool £1m. That is why no visiting side ever agrees to a reduction in ticket prices.

I read on a Stains forum it was 6006.

Attendance given as 4,869