Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:22 pm  

Richard_delariv wrote: league express and the gillette yearbook. i'll chase it up because i've just researched all the play-off crowds since 1998 for something I'm writing and want to get it right. since 2008 they've been awful. Indeed, the attendances for the SL play-offs since 2008 have been embarrassingly low. Funnily enough, ever since the switch to a Top 8 play-off system which rewards mediocrity. Coincidence? I'd be very interested in the findings and observations of your finished written article when you've completed it. Please let me know when you've done so. Gimme a shout by PM if you've got any further queries. PS: Official Super League website also records the Wigan/Leeds attendance as 8,235.

Richard_delariv wrote: league express and the gillette yearbook. i'll chase it up because i've just researched all the play-off crowds since 1998 for something I'm writing and want to get it right. since 2008 they've been awful. Indeed, the attendances for the SL play-offs since 2008 have been embarrassingly low. Funnily enough, ever since the switch to a Top 8 play-off system which rewards mediocrity. Coincidence? I'd be very interested in the findings and observations of your finished written article when you've completed it. Please let me know when you've done so. Gimme a shout by PM if you've got any further queries. PS: Official Super League website also records the Wigan/Leeds attendance as 8,235.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:44 pm  

I'm pretty certain that the Wigan - Leeds crowd was 12,000+ - just look at the highlights of the game. No way is it only 8000

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:32 pm  

This season's crowds are alarming. Sub 5k at cas and sub 8k at bradford. Not sure why Mr. Eve has received such a negative response

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:58 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

This season's crowds are alarming. Sub 5k at cas and sub 8k at bradford. Not sure why Mr. Eve has received such a negative response

Sub 5k for Cas' lowest drawing fixture isn't that alarming. Not like it hasn't happened before. Bradford suffering the after effects of under pricing their season tickets the last few years.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:07 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

I'm pretty certain that the Wigan - Leeds crowd was 12,000+ - just look at the highlights of the game. No way is it only 8000

The 12k+ figure is correct, as reported on the official Wigan site. I'd remember if it had been as low as 8k.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:10 pm  

Orrell Lad wrote:

The 12k+ figure is correct, as reported on the official Wigan site. I'd remember if it had been as low as 8k.

I thought I heard them announce 12k+ at the game too...I could be wrong, but like you id have been shocked if it had been 8k, and it would have stuck in my head.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:11 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

Sub 5k for Cas' lowest drawing fixture isn't that alarming. Not like it hasn't happened before.

Correct, it has happened before. Today was only the 2nd lowest Cas home SL attendance in the last decade. The lowest was the 4,209 who turned up for the Catalan home game in 2010.

No need for any alarm then, eh?

Phew!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:15 pm  

Orrell Lad wrote:

The 12k+ figure is correct, as reported on the official Wigan site. I'd remember if it had been as low as 8k.

You do not know that for certain. 12K may well be correct, but 8k may also be correct... who knows? Bilko claims 8k on his website, so does the official superleague website and practically every other source for that matter.

Whichever is the correct attendance, it doesn't alter the fact that attendances at SL play-off games have been terrible since 2008 which just happens to coincide with the introduction of the Top 8 play-off system.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:15 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Correct, it has happened before. Today was only the 2nd lowest Cas home SL attendance in the last decade. The lowest was the 4,209 who turned up for the Catalan home game in 2010.

No need for any alarm then, eh?

Phew!

Can you see the common denominator with those 2 fixtures?

And what did the fixture in 2010 show about attendances for that year? Were we panicking then too?

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:26 pm  

FarsleySteve wrote:

Can you see the common denominator with those 2 fixtures?

I prefer to compare the attendances between the same fixtures involving the same teams rather than between different fixtures and different teams.

Cas V London in 2013 = 4,751 (though the stadium announcer said it was 4,521)
Cas V London in 2012 = 5,149
Cas V London in 2011 = 7,072
Cas V London in 2010 = 5,862
Cas V London in 2009 = 7,049
Cas V London in 2008 = 6,268