1. Cancer

2. Educated guess

3. No

Not the world, just the bandwagon jumping bunch of wally's who now infest this forum - not old timers like yourself

This is the problem with somebody of his vast knowledge, he feels the need to answer every post on every thread, and inevitably you get the odd few hundred give or take what disagree with him and let him know so, thats when the problem starts when someone has the audacity to disagree with his thoughts and he reverts to type by insulting them, good luck btw trying to stop him hijacking other peoples opinions

Years of limping along with a thrown together squad, the habitual selling off of quality players and a lackadaisical attitude to the match-day experience have all contributed to people choosing to stay away. The task for Mr G and his team is to deliver a package that engages with the wider public and gets them on board with the Wakefield brand - a combination of winning games, an entertaining experience and a nice environment should do the trick.

A SL franchise is probably key in the medium term and a new stadium in the longer term, but there's plenty that could be done in the meantime to create some buzz around the club and the brand. Some good things have happened so far, but there is a risk of standing still - change is a process, not an event.

It's a forum, if you don't like the cut and thrust of it you can always leave.

OK back on topic, Me and the nutjob have had our fun, time for some seriousness!!

How do we feel our attendances in 2011 are doing?

Our gates this season after 6 games average out at 6919/game, the only season in SL that has topped that was 08 and that was 6961/game after the full 13 rounds, so that doesnt look too bad but there is a lot of water and bridges until the season.

(These figures are from the RLFans statistics page, and have been hastily put together, please someone check them)
00 4621/game
01 3668/game
02 3889/game
03 4017/game
04 4806/game, you'll notice it took 4 further seasons to reach our initial highest season for attendances.
05 5100/game
06 5447/game
07 6781/game
08 6961/game, 8 years of serious growth to achieve our highest season.
09 6037/game
10 5983/game, in two years we have effectively gone back 4 years, this is the damaging time for us a club and i would guess the time (the end of 08) that the previous owners, in hindsight should have gone.
11 6919/game, after 6 rounds

So for those out there that think our fans have not returned, it would appear they pretty much have.
Where do we go from here, as i said before, there is a long time to go until the end of the season, but wouldn't it be great in AGs first season in charge, with a rag tag bunch of over achievers playing their guts out for each other, the supporters and the club and in a season where we are the favourite's to lose our licence, wouldn't it be a marvelous achievement by everyone at this great club to show everybody, and have our best supported season ever in SL, and wouldn't it make the RFL luck just a tiny bit stupid?

If that isn't enough to get the good folk of Wakefield to support their team, i don't know what is!

I think the attendances have held up very well this year all things considered. However I think it's more to do with the astonishing loyalty of existing fans and good on field performances rather than any influx of new fans - though obviously there will be exceptions.

That my point, the fans have pretty much returned IMO so far, inspite of everything thats gone on, perhaps if maintained and with eight years of similar improvement, we may go onto achieve a similar level of increased attendence including new supporters, as we achieved upto 2008.
After all the club has now started to give them a reason to return/support, which has not been there for the last 3 years or so.

I agree, but i think one thing that will pull in the fans is success on the pitch and i believe if we do stay in SL and Glover keeps his promise to spend up to the full cap then we really do have a chance of having some success.

Exactly! look what been achieved in such a short period of time with this team compared to the apparent world beaters and big names we've had in the past.
Put a couple of stars in this team and who knows, because that is what we need, guts only gets you so far, but i'll gladly cheer it on until things improve, and bloody enjoy it too!!!

You should put these alongside the Warrington average numbers and also look at when the moved to the new stadium. The reason I say that is I think Wakefield are in a very similar position to what Warrington were before moving and I think that Wakefield have the potential to 'do a Warrington' in a new stadium. Now of course, they have also had some recent success, along with the cash investment in the squad, but if AG is serious about spending the full cap if you stay in SL, it would be interesting to note! You should also put the Cas numbers up and see how they look, bet it could be very insightful reading to the 'kick-Wakey out' brigade!

TBH I_A, you could compare our figures and growth against many clubs in SL and they are comparable or better, the comparison against Warrington is a very good one, and one i have used for quite some time, usually following a "what if"
moment!!!