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Totally agree.

roll on OAKWELL cheap tickets a plenty.....

doesn't really matter how many cas fans were there, they lost! what were their attendances the following year? genuine question because i haven't got a clue! as for the kids prices..a season ticket is 20 quid for home and away, i think that is more than reasonable

I'd say there were probably 4-4.5k cas fans which when you consider their average gate of say 6.5-7k is a hell of a turn out percentage wise. with a forward thinking board, new ground and good marketing I believe both clubs could well have the potential to average 10k. Not just home support increasing but with better facilities away support would increase too.

because it wasn't all ticket

tamargrace,
for the home league games in national league 1 it was an average of 5,250 in 2007, slightly down from 5540 in 2005

for the record I just got that from castigers.net... and stripped out away games & cup games

They want to keep the season ticket at £20 pound home and away and any kids that do not want to travel away if under 16 gets in for a pound for home games...

Still no match for the 500k both Hull clubs bring...

I definitely remember an announcement stating it was all ticket. Anyhow there was nothing to stop any Cas fans from buying tickets from the Wakefield club shop rather than from their own clubs allocation.

I'd say 3000-3500 Cas fans, would not like to say how many paid and how many got over the wall though

double post.

5469 in 2005 and 5108 in 2007 for Cas. Incidentally, 2007 was the only time you've got a bigger average than us in all Super League years since 2000.

What cannot be denied, however, is the steady incline you've had in support in those ten/eleven years so someone must have been doing something right?

If the figures from RLstats are correct you've gone from 4550/3669 in 2000/2001 to 6k.

Fully, when I said cup games, I didn't just mean the challenge cup... I took out the northern rail cup games as well and just counted the home league games

As to the game at Belle Vue, I seem to remember the advice was to buy tickets as they were going to sell out, but it wasn't an all ticket game, I'm fairly sure I paid on the day (wish I hadn't bothered though, but that was result dependant!)

Yeah, I know. And that's what (mine) the average is over the 9 league games.

Exactly as a Cas fan that is exactly how I feel as well. Even though we lost I remember the excitement going into that game it really was the most important game in our history.

I felt the same before our two NL1 Grand Finals although every fan was nervous beyond believe it is what sport should be about.

Now the franchise system has been put in place no game will ever mean that much again. The talk now is of funding been place and planning aplications I would love for it to just be about Rugby again.