Super League 2008 Crowd Watch

[Evil Homer]

Thread for keeping tabs on attendances throughout the year.

 

[Evil Homer]

11,026 at Warrington tonight.

 

[deluded pom?]

18,000+ at Leeds last week.

 

[The Tank]

8,041 at Harlequins. Shame they collapsed in front of such a good crowd. Hopefully most will return.

 

[Evil Homer]

18,000+ at Leeds last week.

18,467.

7,046 at Cas.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Bloody hell, thats a top crowd for quins, did 5,000 wiganers turn up? :?

 

[Evil Homer]

About 2,500 I think. Quins did some serious marketing for the game apparently.

 

[ali]

About 4000 Wiganers for mine. There was a big schools tournament on beforehand, so that helped boost the crowd a bit. Having said all that, the Lexus stand was the fullest of Harlequins fans I've seen, and that was my 4th visit. The kids were mostly behind the posts, and Wigan fans in the east stand.

Overall I'd say 4000 pies, 3000 Quins regulars, and 1000 newbies.

Didn't notice any serious marketing. I think the crowd came down to 4 things. The name of Wigan RL and the growth of their travelling support, the fact it was the first game of the season, the £10 ticket promotion and the schools tournament.

I go out of my way to look for RL news down here, and certainly didn't see more than a couple of small articles this week in the London press. I don't think there was any big scale marketing going on.

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

Their real test comes deeper into the season against the likes of Wakefield or Catalan. Still, I'm very pleased that a crowd at a Quins game started with an 8, and had four figures.

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

Cas crowd a touch disappointing? The fact that they were playing Catalan notwithstanding.

 

[The Tank]

8,713 @ Hull K.R.
15,629 @ Huddersfield

Great crowds for the first round!

 

[Evil Homer]

9,851 at Wakefield. Average of over 10,000 for the round, bodes well considering Hull FC, Leeds, St Helens, Wigan, Catalans and Bradford were all away.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Great crowds considering none of the big clubs played at home, SL is picking up, who would of thought 2 years ago a round of SL with no big clubs playing at home could average 10,000?

Well done to all the clubs and fans, if they can all get decent stadiums in place, there is no reason the SL clubs shouldn't start averaging what the NRL does now.

Good to see Salford get 4,000 as well in NL1, at least they haven't thrown the towel in.

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

15,629 @ Huddersfield

:shock:

Brilliant.

 

[gaterooze]

Wow, some huge upsets for the first round too! Exciting season ahead.

 

[JasonE]

The Wakefield crowd has been adjusted and was over 10,000 according to this

http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/over-10000-fans-turn-out-to-watch-wildcats-i603479.html

 

[Evil Homer]

The Wakefield crowd has been adjusted and was over 10,000 according to this

http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/over-10000-fans-turn-out-to-watch-wildcats-i603479.html

You have to wonder why they didn't announce that on gameday and why they haven't released an official figure if true.

I make it an average of 11,253 so far. We could be looking at 6 10,000+ crowds from 6 this weekend.

 

[Evil Homer]

9,863 at Wakefield
13,396 at Saints
16,667 at Wigan

Bit disappointed with the Wakefield crowd, they were talking it up as a sell out. Mind, with that performance it's probably better they didn't.

 

[yakstorm]

Still encouraging to see Wakefield averaging over 9K after two games... Sure it will possibly drop, but we'll enjoy it till then

 

[deluded pom?]

It'll be interesting to see how the Saints's attendances hold up once they start playing the teams who don't bring much away support on a Friday night with the televised games kicking off half an hour earlier than they have been recently.