Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:00 pm  

JonB95 wrote: Make sure you use the correct Catalans attendance of 14,858 rather than the incorrect 12,000 being spouted by the BBC. A number of loyal-to-the-game, positive-news-only journos got very excited by that attendance yesterday, which is in complete contrast to their otherwise complete lack of interest in SL attendances this season. Most sources are still claiming the attendance was 12,000 (fudge-fudge) including the RFL

JonB95 wrote: Make sure you use the correct Catalans attendance of 14,858 rather than the incorrect 12,000 being spouted by the BBC. A number of loyal-to-the-game, positive-news-only journos got very excited by that attendance yesterday, which is in complete contrast to their otherwise complete lack of interest in SL attendances this season. Most sources are still claiming the attendance was 12,000 (fudge-fudge) including the RFL

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:02 pm  

Wildthing wrote:

40% increase at Wakey, and a good win. We will take that. Thanks Billy!

Yes indeed, and well done to Wakey. A higher attendance for your home game against London today than Huddersfield managed at home to Leeds, and they had a cheap ticket offer on too.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:05 pm  

William Eve wrote: A number of loyal-to-the-game, positive-news-only journos got very excited by that attendance yesterday, which is in complete contrast to their otherwise complete lack of interest in SL attendances this season. Most sources are still claiming the attendance was 12,000 (fudge-fudge) including the RFL And why wouldn't the journalists be excited by a crowd of almost 15,000 in a city in France that hopes to secure a Super League club ? It's called err supporting the game. And does 14,858 not sound a more correct figure to you than 12,000 (which was in fact the rounded number of ticket sales announced by the Dragons before the game)

William Eve wrote: A number of loyal-to-the-game, positive-news-only journos got very excited by that attendance yesterday, which is in complete contrast to their otherwise complete lack of interest in SL attendances this season. Most sources are still claiming the attendance was 12,000 (fudge-fudge) including the RFL And why wouldn't the journalists be excited by a crowd of almost 15,000 in a city in France that hopes to secure a Super League club ? It's called err supporting the game. And does 14,858 not sound a more correct figure to you than 12,000 (which was in fact the rounded number of ticket sales announced by the Dragons before the game)

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:12 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

And why wouldn't the journalists be excited by a crowd of almost 15,000 in a city in France that hopes to secure a Super League club ? It's called err supporting the game.

Correct, they should be. Shouldn't they also be interested in reporting on attendances which are extremely worrying for the game?

JonB95 wrote:

And does 14,858 not sound a more correct figure to you than 12,000 (which was in fact the rounded number of ticket sales announced by the Dragons before the game)

A non-rounded attendance of 14,898 seems about as correct as a non-rounded attendance of 17,873 in my opinion.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:15 pm  

Do you have the stats for which games had ticket offers last season? Bit pointless bringing them up on a comparison thread if you don't.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:17 pm  

poor crowd at Huddersfield today, but I guess fans are just bored by seeing us trounce leeds now

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:24 pm  

meast wrote:

poor crowd at Huddersfield today, but I guess fans are just bored by seeing us trounce leeds now

You can make fun, and I can see why you would, but seriously...Hudds have team that are performing at he top of the game, playing a superbly attractive brand of rugby...why the Hell won't people in Hudds follow them??

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:24 pm  

Talent Spotter wrote:

Do you have the stats for which games had ticket offers last season? Bit pointless bringing them up on a comparison thread if you don't.

The RFL didn't mention any offers of cheap tickets last season when they were bigging-up comparative SL attendances in their press releases.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:26 pm  

meast wrote:

poor crowd at Huddersfield today, but I guess fans are just bored by seeing us trounce leeds now

Unfortunately for Huddersfield, their excellent form and SL ladder position is not reflected in their overall home attendances this season which are currently 21.65% down compared to last season for the same fixtures.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:28 pm  

William Eve wrote:

The RFL didn't mention any offers of cheap tickets last season when they were bigging-up comparative SL attendances in their press releases.

Well, you need to decide how you want to measure success...attendance or receipts, as in the olden days.