Union is generally pretty good in that it has a wide range of ticket prices, both on the day and season tickets. It's very clever really. It caters for the casual fan who wants to go to one game but also has the pricey range for the corporates and such.

3 of the stands at Edgeley Park were pricey but then you could sit in The Railway End for £10 - the cheapest Premiership ticket. We still have the cheapest Premiership match and season tickets now. £15 in either terrace and my season ticket was £99 as I renewed early, it would have been £99 otherwise. They go right up to £550 if you want one in the West Stand.

Surprised at how cheap it is for a terrace seat now, given that we were quoted £17 a throw for the Railway End the other year. Although £550 is pretty steep for rugby of either code- next year's most expensive Wire season tickets are in the North Stand and cost £323, but then the cheapest adult one is £196 for a renewal in the South Stand.

I meant £199 if I had bought it later on.

Yeah, it was £17 I think a few years ago. It was £10 for the last 3 or so years. I spent all but 3 games in my time there in that stand. It was cold but then I couldn't justify that much more to have a roof.

£550 is a lot but it's £47 in the centre seats. If you x that by 17 games then £550 is still a big discount.

Our first 2 games have seen the posh stand very empty.

It seems that in Union these days you get very good value by getting a season ticket and that's about it. I have mates who support Bury and Altrincham FC. It's getting on for £300 for Bury and to sit at Moss Lane it's £265 a year I think. For 6th tier Football. If you compare those to the match day prices you don't save a lot at all. I'm not sure what the benefits of season tickets really are these days. My Auntie has one at Old Trafford and I don't think she even saves anything compared to match day prices. It's just that it guarantees her a seat while others are on the waiting list.

The most expensive club are Exeter, believe it or not. I went the other week and it's a decent ground but given they're in their 3rd season in the Premiership - £24 is the cheapest terrace ticket, £27 is the cheapest terrace ticket with a side on view, £34 is the cheapest seat and it's £41 in the grandstand.

They claim it's so they can manage financially compared to the big clubs but a lot of their fans apparently feel alienated. Rightly so in my view. They have recently announced plans for an expansion which will probably see cheaper tickets.

In fairness to Alty, their standing tickets are much cheaper. And most people do go to Alty to stand. They were £99 the season before last.

Mine at Eastleigh is also £99- £4.30 a game if I go to every home game!

5,000 fans for the ''local'' derby between Wasps and London Irish today, the Aviva's weekly crowds are woeful so far. (though I remember it being pretty bad at this stage last year too)
Decent turn out for Saracens at Wembley though. But doesn't mean anything if they can't start drawing a regular crowd to their 'usual' home stadium week in, week out. The fact that their new stadium is going to have a capacity of just 10,000 sums it up really. Biggest bandwagon fan base going.
Sale lost again, is the early season optimism evaporating yet? Thought they would be doing much better than this tbh!
EDIT - how Saracens can get 40,000 people to pay to watch them is beyond me - turgid is not even the word! 9-9 final score

They'll class it as a nail biting draw.

36,503....that's how many people watched the London Broncos over 13 SL "home" games this year......sarries getting 41k is indicative of how BADLY the London RL club is run.......

I do agree.. for a club with a small fan base Saracens have some great people marketing them.. Unlike Broncos. The potential is there.

The Potential has always been there...........it's just the long line of unqualified people that have been tasked with running a RL club since 2006 that's the problem.

Paul Brown: RL man but had to retire early due to illness.
Keith Hogg: Sponsorship guy from Scottish and Newcastle no experience of running a sports club
Paul Blanchard: Cricketing background....left cricket to join RL, left HKA after 6 months.....left us to return to cricket.
Gus MacKay: Cricketing background.......over 2 seasons has nearly destroyed the club IMO.....even our shirts are made by a cricket manufacturer....



We arrived at the stoop with a healthy 3,918 average that had just risen 13%.......the following year we got close to 5k.....THEREAFTER......it's dropped to 2,807...44%

Sale are in deep doo doo it seems

Indeed, only one point (a bonus point as well) and already shipped 163 points in 5 games.