saint at wire wrote:
It still doesn't make much sense; if the south stand is nearly empty that means surely that we haven't sold our own "home" allocation in spite of having sold more season tickets than at KR? Does this then mean that the casual / irregular support has dropped off significantly?
I think you have pretty much answered your own question there.
From looking at the online ticketing system, I compared the pre booked Quins tickets (before that option was withdrawn from the system) to those of the Wire game, and the North stand was pretty much full anyhow for that game, without people buying single match tickets.
I reckon Saints have probably only sold an extra 1000-1500 match day tickets for this clash, whereas normally they would have 5k turning up on spec. It will be interesting on Friday to see if there are many who just turn up without a ticket with the aim of paying on the day. I personally doubt it.
What it shows is that our hardcore fan base is around 6k to 7k. Made up mainly of season ticket holders and others who for personal reasons have chosen not to get a season ticket.
The less committed have simply taken the decision that getting to Widnes is too much hassle.
The worry is that having got out of the habit, these fans may be hard to win back when Saints move into the new ground.
