Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Aug 11, 2013 4:59 pm  

Club... Games... 2013... 2012... %gain/loss
Leeds... 11... 167112... 165695... +0.86%
Wakefield... 11... 89246... 88575... +0.76%
Widnes... 12... 72478... 72375... +0.14%
Hull... 11... 129413... 132008... -1.97%
Hull KR... 12... 89681... 94499... -5.10%
Catalan... 11... 91161... 96625... -5.65%
Castleford... 11... 68529... 73294... -6.50%
Warrington... 12... 127840... 136831... -6.57%
Wigan... 11... 161685... 175449... -7.85%
St Helens... 12... 132768... 167404... -20.69%
Huddersfield... 12... 74033... 93644... -20.94%
London... 12... 26762... 34533... -22.50%
Bradford... 11... 95824... 131574... -27.17%
Salford... 12... 36847... 66343... -44.46%

SUBTOTAL... 161... 1363379... 1528849... -10.82%

Magic Weekend... 7... 62042... 63716... -2.63%

TOTAL... 168... 1425421... 1592565... -10.50%

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:03 pm  

Current Average Attendances V Same Fixtures Last Year
Club... SL:2013... (SL:2012)
Leeds... 15192... (15063)
Wigan... 14699... (15950)
Hull... 11765... (12001)
St Helens... 11064... (13950)
Warrington... 10653... (11403)
Bradford... 8711... (11961)
Catalan... 8287... (8784)
Wakefield... 8113... (8052)
Hull KR... 7473... (7875)
Castleford... 6230... (6663)
Huddersfield... 6169... (7804)
Widnes... 6040... (6031)
Salford... 3071... (5529)
London... 2230... (2878)

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:08 pm  

During the current franchised, 14 club, top 8 play-off system SL era... the total attendances in SL to date remain the lowest we have ever witnessed. Neither the replacement of the poorly-supported Crusaders with the better-supported Widnes, nor the establishment of 2 new stadia, nor the re-establishment of heavily-discounted SL tickets via cheap Groupon/BOGOF/Buddy offers has prevented 2013 SL attendances from being the worst on record so far.

SL Rounds 1 to 24 total attendances comparison (2009 to 2013)
SL 2013 - 1,425,421 from 161 fixtures plus 7 MAGIC fixtures.
SL 2012 - 1,592,565 from same 161 fixtures plus 7 MAGIC fixtures.
SL 2011 - 1,492,174 from same 161 fixtures plus 7 MAGIC fixtures **
SL 2010 - 1,448,365 from same 161 fixtures plus 7 MAGIC fixtures **
SL 2009 - 1,456,853 from same 161 fixtures plus 7 MAGIC fixtures **

SL 2013 % decrease in attendances
V SL 2012 = -10.50%
V SL 2011 = -4.47%
V SL 2010 = -1.58%
V SL 2009 = -2.16%

SL attendances losses
V SL 2012 = -167,144
V SL 2011 = -66,753
V SL 2010 = -22,944
V SL 2009 = -31,432

** except replace Widnes with Crusaders

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:38 pm  

William Eve wrote:

During the current franchised, 14 club, top 8 play-off system SL era... the total attendances in SL to date remain the lowest we have ever witnessed. Neither the replacement of the poorly-supported Crusaders with the better-supported Widnes, nor the establishment of 2 new stadia, nor the re-establishment of heavily-discounted SL tickets via cheap Groupon/BOGOF/Buddy offers has prevented 2013 SL attendances from being the worst on record so far.

Do you have the corresponding ticket offers for previous years? Obviously we wouldn't be able to make a fair comparison without them.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:55 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Current Average Attendances V Same Fixtures Last Year
Club... SL:2013... (SL:2012)
Leeds... 15192... (15063)
Wigan... 14699... (15950)
Hull... 11765... (12001)
St Helens... 11064... (13950)
Warrington... 10653... (11403)
Bradford... 8711... (11961)
Catalan... 8287... (8784)
Wakefield... 8113... (8052)
Hull KR... 7473... (7875)
Castleford... 6230... (6663)
Huddersfield... 6169... (7804)
Widnes... 6040... (6031)
Salford... 3071... (5529)
London... 2230... (2878)

Red White and Blue army?

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:01 am  

List of the top 80+ professional clubs around the world and their attendances in the season ended or just about to end.....
2 League clubs in the top 10 and no SL club inside the top 20.

Not sure what the RFL are going to do about it, but they do need to look long and hard at the bottom 25% which contains 8 current SL team....with Salford and London being beaten down by the 2 mickey poor Scottish clubs and one of the Italian Club sides

Stormers 36,822
Lions/Kings 32,720
Brisbane 31,968
Reds 31,848
Bulls 28,954
Sharks 23,323
Leicester Tigers 21,244
Harlequins 21,046
Blues 20,953
Canterbury 20,939
Sydney Roosters 20,165
Cheetahs 20,078
Toulouse 19,519
Saracens 18,002
Bordeaux 17,701
Newcastle 17,564
Souths 17,532
Clermont Auvergne 17,250
Tards 16,960
New Zealand 16,765
Stade Francais 16,727
Leinster 16,525
Melbourne 16,314
Leeds Rhinos 15,912
Toulon 15,539
Crusaders 15,084
Wigan 14,699
Munster 14,699
Bayonne 14,506
Brumbies 14,287
Chiefs 14,280
Gloucester 14,004
North Queensland 13,957
Gold Coast Titans 13,869
Cronulla 13,708
Manly 13,434
Racing CF 13,145
Highlanders 13,096
Parramatta 12,855
Northampton Saints 12,812
St George Illawarra 12,575
Force 12,427
Grenoble 12,417
London Wasps 12,357
Montpellier 12,152
Rebels 11,947
Perpignan 11,872
Hull FC 11,765
Bath 11,516
Wests Tigers 11,413
St Helens 11,064
Penrith 10,862
Canes 10,850
Warrington 10,653
Ulster 10,544
Biarritz 10,327
Canberra 10,133
Ospreys 9,856
London Irish 9,471
Worcester Warriors 9,306
Bradford 8,711
Agen 8,669
Exeter Chiefs 8,367
Catalan 8,287
Wakefield 8,113
Cardiff Blues 8,055
Castres 7,780
Scarlets 7,746
HKA 7,473
Sale Sharks 7,266
Mont de Marsan 6,454
Castleford 6,230
Huddersfield 6,169
Widnes 6,040
London Welsh 5,302
Gwent Dragons 5,223
Connacht 5,149
Glasgow 4,180
Benetton Treviso 3,808
Edinburgh Reivers 3,779
Salford 3,071
Zebre 2,405
London 2,230
Queue a thousand angry HKA fans decrying the fact they are 68th out of 83......and that I haven counted their travelling millions

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:28 am  

Crusaders doing well and Featherstone must be pushing London close

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:38 am  

Featherstone's average for the Kingstone Press Championship 10 home matches so far is 2,405.

I've just spent 5 minutes collating that. So this is how William Eve lives

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:57 am  

Hull KA? Yes the team with 5 non-english players in the team at weekend. One more than FC.
Quite happy with 68th for a small club and doing minimal cheap deals compared to other clubs.

Edit: Actually only 4 so the same as other clubs

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:12 am  

because of injury

Leeds played with 13 academy products this weekend. 1 overseas player. Hudds, and Wigan have done similar things this year, and Saints wont have been far away.

When Hull KR invest in their academy which is the joint lowest rated in SL, start bringing through more quality young players, and stop bringing in so many overseas players. People will stop mocking them.