Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:03 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

No they aren't! We sold 15,537! How is that 'well above' 15,000? And more fool you for listening to Internet speculation. Nobody ever claimed 16,000 had been sold. .

Are you operating to zero tolerance Saints Fan, we were only 463 short of 16000 tickets, some supporters with tickets didn,t turn up, so we might have actually sold more tickets than the actual digital count through the turnstiles, as 15,537 was the attendance and not the no. Of tickets sold.

Was expecting around 16.5 k myself, but if we can average 15k for the season that would be fantastic.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:53 am  

BackrowSaint wrote:

I think this bit may be before Saints were allocated the East Stand. The West Stand was in fact sold out a couple of weeks ago and at the time was the only standing available to Saints supporters, this is probably why your friend couldn't get a ticket. Saints fans were than allocated the East stand at a later date as it was apparent Salford would only bring around 200 fans.

Most likely the case, but when you are 75 and don't have internet connection how do you know about late allocations? if I had known I would have rang and told him.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:56 am  

the flying biscuit wrote:

my bit of advice for starting topics on RLFANS.
1.) dont talk about attendances.... Wigan are second only to NASCAR in Attendance numbers. (I was going to say bumbs on seats but thats a different story)
2.) dont talk about flags. Only the Chinese Army and an Olympic games opening ceremony have more flags than the frigantes.
3.) dont talk about fullbacks unless you want to start explaining why Billy Slater is better than Sam Tomkins.
4.) dont talk about owning your own stadium. It's been Made Quite clear by the cherry boys that renting is always better than owning.
4.) and dont talk about history it doesnt exist for any club other than Shaun Wanes boys from the Wigan Way.

stick by them and you'll be able to talk without half wit intrusion no problem.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:46 pm  

saints1233 wrote:

Wigan played their first match at the DW against Cas in 99 which was the first game at the new stadium and also the last game of the regular season, and with Cas bringing a healthy away following, Wigan managed a rather dismal 13,900 (and lost), not forgetting of course that Wigan are the bestest fans in the world who are famous continental, especially in countries such as Peru, Angola, Malta and the Faroe Islands.. Adding to this their first home game of the following season pulled in just 11,200 against Leeds. And yes they sold out their last game at Central park against St Helens, had we played Wigan we would of done the same. Get a grip you mong......

I believe only 2 or 3 of the stands were open for this game. As it wasn't quite finished, As we wanted the Saints game to be our final at CP.

Good attendance by your lot, would have been nice to have been a sell out, though.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:20 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Most likely the case, but when you are 75 and don't have internet connection how do you know about late allocations? if I had known I would have rang and told him.

Very true, it's just an unfortunate situation I suppose.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:47 pm  

well done on tv too

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:15 pm  

Pieman wrote:

well done on tv too

I read about that. 80% up on Widnes v Wakefield on opening night and up on the Grand Final as well?

Wowsers.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:45 pm  

Supreme Saint wrote:

St Helens v Salford City Reds: 15,547
Wigan Warriors v Leeds Rhinos: 15,370
Warrington Wolves v London Broncos: 10,834
Huddersfield Giants v Widnes Vikings: 8,869
Wakefield Wildcats v Hull KR: 8,612
Castleford Tigers v Bradford Bulls: 8,054

TBH, I had expected our first game at LP to be a sell out, however to put it in persective, 2 years ago at KR and certainly last year at Widnes, we would have been one of, if not the lowest attendance of those above, so to jump from that to the top isn't to be sneezed at. I hope we can average between 14-15K this year, but expect our average to settle down to something more like 12k in a couple of years time, which will still be a significant increase on KR averages.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:54 am  

We'll struggle to hit 15k average now with the reduced capacity. But 14k is still doable, Catalan will be telling as the drop off will be as severe as it can be when they come to town.

Re: Highest attendance in round 2 : Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:58 am  

Other clubs with new grounds have increased attendance figures in the second and third seasons.