Thanks, forgot about the stats section of this site.

Interesting that when we made the playoffs in 2004, we only averaged 4,806 that season?! 2012 is a 70% increase on that!!

Over 8000 average is a fantastic achievement. 2-3 quality signings and getting some re-signed could mean we get 9000 average next year? The ground would be electric on game day

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For me the target next year would be to get the same in people terms but more income.
The added attendance figures have created a great atmosphere at the club but we need to make sure it is paying for itself as well.
Increase in ST charge will help a lot if we get the same numbers.

Unfortunately our success will work against us with this. I think the bottom 3 attendances were on Sky. The better we are the more likely they will pick games where the attendances may affect the total.

What ever the case is, averaging 8,000+ will give us a great PR nudge with the other teams in Super league and get us a bigger voice at the table.

Great result by the club and well done to all involved.

With Bradford being the third lowest attendance all year it makes a mockery of this "too big a club to fail" malarky. We have been ribbed for years over our number of fans but we knew where we stood when told this from the supposed "bigger clubs". Now one of these bigger clubs and the faces of the RFL/SLE preach how they are too big with a massive fan base is just a barely wafer thin argument. Take away the discounted season tickets at Bradford (10k) then what would their attendances be? Take away our season ticket sales <4k and we still have as many again coming through the gate. Especially such as Catalans who understandably don't bring many.

The argument of the Bradford game being televised doesn't even stack up when you consider that Leeds and Widnes were televised too.

Well done each and every one of you. Let's keep it going, onwards and upwards

Cracking achievement this year in attendance terms - if we can push on to 9k next year in advance of NM, the stage is well and truly set for the mythical 10k in the new stadium.

I'm pleased for Mr G - he's a pretty quiet, unassuming Chairman who doesn't court the media and just gets on with things; whatever he's doing though, it's clearly working - I hope all of his effort, enthusiasm and cash feels like a worthwhile investment.

Totally agree, Mr Glover and his team deserve thanks and praise in equal measure, the progress since the dark dark days at the begining of last season is truly staggering

Its not just the numbers/attendance as the atmosphere at the home matches now is electric whereas only at the beginning of the season it was alot quieter. I'm sure all the loud Wakefield chanting helps the Wakefield players massively and it has been commented on by them yesterday. Mathers positive reaction to the crowd was noticeable at the start of the first half. It felt that we had about 10,000 in the ground.

It was like a cup tie atmosphere last night and although some of the rugby was below par it was fantastic entertainment and well worth the money! Lauitiiti is world class and Leeds must be kicking themselves letting him go and getting Hauraki?



Kirmond, Mariano,Wood and Mathers need a mention as I thought they were also outstanding. We've got a good team lets hope we can keep hold of the core 19 players for next season and not have them cherry picked.

There is a drop in attendence when sky appear and games against Leeds and Bradford could have been a good bit higher if the tv cameras had of stayed away.

How are Cas top? I don't get it

Since the new roofs went up the old girl has been absolutely rocking! Together with some great end of season form it’s created a real buzz about the place. The match day experience has come on leaps and bounds. Even if we can maintain these numbers for next year we’ll do ok. An above inflation raise in the price should mean an increased income.

I know it’s not practical but I’d love to stay at BV now, I don’t think Newmarket will have half the atmosphere as the revamped BV! That’s the price of progress I suppose!

I know Cas are never top of anything!!! The Wakefield v Cas game on good friday was the highest attendence of the season at Belle Vue...

With popTart if we can get the same number as this year with the increase in price of a season ticket and still good value for money.Will have another one with us next season who has come the last 2 games and wants a season ticket next year alas his ticket will only cost £25 but as the saying goes start em young.Was talking with one of our former wingers at the game and only saying if I won that big one I would be looking into us staying at BV and the old power station site our car park - wish me luck lads.

They cannot be right, surely? Cas have the biggest average, ahead of Wigan and Leeds and Warrington.

to be fair I had to double check the list as well

Its a list of our attendances showing which team we played at each attendance.
So our biggest attendance was against Cas.

I didn't work out everybody else's average.

That is truly excellent. Good job

Impressive achievements on & off the park. How has a club that was in such a dire predicament turned things round so quickly? Shame you can't market the formula because half the clubs in SL have failed to achieve anything remotely on this scale.

this work has not gone un-noticed by fans of other clubs.

you only have to take a look at the salford forum (or even the bradford one in parts) to see fans saying how well we have done and how they hope their club to copy/follow.

well done to everyone regarding the attendances.

Well done to the club Mr G has deserved it he took a huge gamble on us and its paying off. Next year I think we will reach the magic 10 thou. We can do it everyone who took friends to the game may fancy a season ticket.

To keep Slugger happy I have worked out everybody else's average. I've used the stats from this site which have a couple of errors in them. I think I've plugged them so reasonably happy with the numbers. Ours is definitely right.

Wigan.......?............... 15,586
Leeds........................ 14,948
St. Helens.................. 14,087
Hull FC.......?.............. 11,909
Bradford.................... 11,541
Warrington................. 11,452
Catalans......?............. 9,394
[size=150Wakefield....... 8,172[/size
Hull KR...................... 7,786
Huddersfield..?............ 7,591
Castleford.................. 6,633
Salford..........?........... 5,763
Widnes..........?........... 5,757
London..........?........... 2,832

The ones with ? still have one last game to play but I've assumed for the sake of the stats that they will get their average in that game. Wigan will probably get 20k but it still only moves the average 300 so none of the figures will change too much. Widnes might just pip Salford as they'll get a decent attendance v Warrington.

I too thought the first post was the averages for each SL team, not the attendances at Belle View against those teams.

Cant belive we had 7254 for the Catalan game compared with in the past,just goes to show what a warm sunny day and some good marketing and upturn in fortune can do.
Then the London game we get 5876 on a bit of a misserable day it does appear we have turned a corner.We just need to consolidate that next year and we could be going places we aint been for a long time.

Assuming we win against Salford it will mean we are 8th on playing ability and 8th on attendance. Apart from revenue/profit which we don't know yet, that puts us squarely in the mix when everyone starts the threads about 10 league teams on the VT!