Crowd size isn't really so much of an issue in the NRL, though, with the fat fees they get from their TV deals. JT regularly played for the Cowboys in Townsville in front of 10k crowds. How many would turn up to watch him at the DW? A lot more than that!

Fair point but gotta remember every single game here is televised, I wonder what the SL attendances would be if that was the case.

However, as doom and gloom as it seems I have to say one thing SL has and always will have over NRL is game day atmospheres. If there's one thing I miss about home it's hearing 'We arrrrre the boyysss...' ring around the stadium on away days. SL has the fans, its up to the boys upstairs to pull the strings and get them to the games!

Watching the dire performances against Cas and broncos I was feeling the same. Stumping up before we have any idea of when the games will be played, i have moved back to working locally so not that much of an hindrance, but the Thursday games are a killer for the early start on Fridays. There is also a chance that home games get played somewhere else.

So what your saying is that you want to change the way its worked out to meet your own argument as your club cant match the wigan and saints game?

Not at all.
I simply pointing out that there is a huge visible reduction on home fans at the JJB and season ticket sales refract the image seen on TV. The median average accounts also for end of season attendances.that simply wasn't there.

As Saints, Wire have had better attendance averages in a season but I'm not measuring penis size here....I'm point is that Wire haven't in decades had a better average across all 3 types. Wigan souldnt brush it under the table and hide behind a one off Wigan Saints derby to say the average is 16k...when almost all season the gates are 60% of that.

both clubs have always used it, I suspect you have in the past with saints and wigan bringing plenty to your place, our season ticket sales are still probably only behind Leeds but arent getting the walk on fan or to be fair any away support except from you or saints

Wire fans not expecting a big crowd for the CC game

yeah no club will except today when it was their cup final

Can’t understand Warrington price structure for this game,the sheer fatigue of the two clubs playing each other won’t help,should have been a tenner a ticket and have done with it

I’m fairly sure the RFL set ticket prices for Challenge Cup games? Either way I agree. They need to regenerate interest in the competition and get people out of their armchair and out to the games. Lower ticket pricing would go some way to achieving it but they’d have to generate better sponsorships to bring in the finance.

A Wire vs Wigan Cup tie shouldn’t need £10 tickets in all honestly and if Wire can’t muster a crowd (and we don’t take a big following) with most people paying less then £20 the cup has issues bigger then I realised.

You would think that all the Wolfs (Sic) would be out for their Derby...

Times have changed WP, their cup final, not Derby, would have been written not so long ago.

I agree with you, but sadly it's not the case if you want to fill the HJS today.

I’d say the frequency of the fixture is as much to blame as anything. This is the 20th time they’ve played in 4 years.