Attendance : Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:39 pm  

I would like to advise the person who's job it is to work out the attendance to hand their notice in please. 13,510?? I've seen Knowsley Road look more sparse with an announced attendance of 15,000+

Same goes for the Cas and Warrington games - both had a very very healthy crowd but a relatively low 'announced attendance'.

Are we all just getting VERY fat and therefore leaving less room for maneuver or is there a bit of a scam going on?

Re: Attendance : Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:41 pm  

i thought this myself. there was more people at the cas and especially the wire game !!!

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:00 am  

The figure was greeted with outright laugher in the pop side. That tells its own story!! Must have been 15k easily.

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:02 am  

All the play offs look light on reported attendances,

The play off cash goes to the RFL to dish out after "costs".
Does it need spelling out?

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:13 am  

I could be wrong but I was led to believe that, for regular season games, Saints count season tickets in the attendance figures regardless of whether the ticket holders turn up.

As play-off games don't have season tickets to count, a similar attendance (bums on seats if you will) will see a lower 'true' attendance figure.

Plus I would imagine play-off games aren't counted in the average seasonal attendance calculations so there is less/no need to add a phantom 2,000 fans.

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:24 am  

Looked around the 15000 mark to me. The only spaces I could see where in the corners at the away end. Maybe we gave 13500 fans, to give some of the Wigoon fans something to moan about.
I partially blame Nigel Wood who attended the match, anybody see the size of him, he alone must have taken up 3 seats.

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:45 am  

It looked pretty full where I was behind the sticks in the away end, but you can never tell how full, as you can't see the front or round the back.

We definately took more than we did to Wire last week, my estimate approx. 2250 - 2500?

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:28 am  

Birkbygiant wrote:

It looked pretty full where I was behind the sticks in the away end, but you can never tell how full, as you can't see the front or round the back.

We definately took more than we did to Wire last week, my estimate approx. 2250 - 2500?

I think we said it looked like about 1500. Made a hell of a noise though!

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:52 am  

Saints have been doing it or years, once the shoes and socks are off on the crowd counters it can be think of a number, double it and remove a percentage of the gate receipts.

Re: Attendance : Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:24 am  

SaintJose wrote:

I think we said it looked like about 1500. Made a hell of a noise though!

Might explain why there was only 13500 in there last night, you must of been on the gates counting them in