Leigh’s average attendance in 2016 - 4260 (Obviously going to increase to to SL status), highest 10,556
Salford average attendance in 2016 - 3193 (Down from 4106 in 2015), highest 5089
Hull KR average attendance in 2016 - 7684, highest 11,050

Now, I'm not exactly a maths professor, but these figures show it's more than just a 'hypothetical guess', as you put it.

Agree,they should have got the shield,I bet hull at 20s to win the regular season and got paid out,but we are talking about the RFL so anything possible.

I understand what your saying,but your only target next season would be to win the league which as it stands dont win you promotion which it should.

So will it be higher or lower than 7684 avg for Leigh? Like i say,we won't know until the end of next season. To suggest otherwise is an hypothetical guess.

I'm not disagreeing with you on that. I would have no problem with top goes up and bottom goes down. I can also see the merits of the current system, in that it tries to make sure that a club promoted are ready for SL, which I think Leigh now are, but maybe wouldn't have been if they had gone up last season. We will never know whether they would have been ready this season or not though, thats just me speculating. My post was more frustration at Cockayne making it sound that players were hard done by if they get relegated. He does have valid points, but I don't see why sportsmen/women should be immune to the 'real world'. That was more the point I was trying to get across.

Salford Expected 17

O'BRIEN
JOHNSON/EVALDS
JONES
J GRIFFIN
SAU
LUI
DOBSON
BURGESS
TOMKINS
G GRIFFIN
HAURAKI
MURDOCH-MASILA
FLANAGAN

KENNY/EVALDS/JOHNSON
KRASNIQ
KOPCZAK
VIDOT

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Decent side that how on earth did London beat you

Well i shall be in Benidorm watching the MPG. With that team i think you might edge it,but it's a close one this.

Watson's playing mind games. Carney is fit and will play.

I hope Sa'u isn't on the wing. He's not a winger in a gazillion years, his positional play is appalling!!

I'd go with:

1. O'Brien
2. Evalds
3. J.Griffin
4. Sa'u
5. Johnson
6. Lui
7. Dobson
8. Kopczak
9. Tomkins
10. G.Griffin
11. Masila
12. Jones
13. Flanagan
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14. Kenny
15. Burgess
16. Hauraki
17. Krasniqi

Strange that on paper salford have better players and if you had the pick of both teams you'd definitely take more of theirs than rovers but there is definitely something missing over theirs. I still think that you'll win quite comfortably on saturday and can see their heads going down if you score early on

That doesn't really tell the whole story though does it?

Salford's average attendance before the 6 point deduction was higher then the figure you stated. Who's to say that if we didn't get the deduction that our crowds wouldn't of maintained if not increased as we'd be in the top 8.

Leigh's highest attendance was a game where it was free admission! This will obviously boost their average as that crowd was probably nearly 3 times bigger then normal. What was their average before this game?