5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 10:01 am  

Reading the trade press yesterday and looking at the attendances for the cup ties, our game is in deep trouble, the crowds were pathetic at almost all of the fixtures.
The prestige of the challenge cup is almost lost to all within the game apart from the four or five clubs capable of winning or getting to the final. How sad.

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 10:40 am  

marillion man wrote:

Reading the trade press yesterday and looking at the attendances for the cup ties, our game is in deep trouble, the crowds were pathetic at almost all of the fixtures.
The prestige of the challenge cup is almost lost to all within the game apart from the four or five clubs capable of winning or getting to the final. How sad.

A sad indictment of the the lack of promotion and relegation culminated with special privileges for clubs who IMO have no right to be sat at the top table me thinks Col! They have taken away true ambition for the majority of the game and fans are losing interest.

Plus there is a recession!

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 11:04 am  

Halton Stadium Attendances

Saints v Fev 2905 (This must be their lowest attendance for a long long time. Anyone know Saints lowest ever crowd?)
Widnes v Hull 3,387

I'm not expecting fantastic attendances when Hudds play their SL games at the Shay.

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 11:59 am  

All it shows is the amount of freebies that are given out for the league games and how most clubs are surviving by a shoe string.

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 12:19 pm  

I would say it is unfair to compare the Challenge cup matches involving both a SL and a Championship club , how many Fax fans would attend a CC match against say Leigh East , or Leigh verses Siddal ?

What is worrying [ to the clubs involved ] are the attendances involving all SL clubs , specifically Huddersfield , drawing 800 more than us against the Catalans and Salford getting 2,000 against Hull KR !

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 3:26 pm  

THE BRADFORD ATTENDANCE SHOWS HOW MANY 'TRUE FANS' THEY HAVE GOT!

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 3:34 pm  

Take away the Wigan support then not many

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 3:47 pm  

Come on lads the reason our game is booming is because of franchising.

It is a disgrace and the people who decided to introduce it are so shortsighted they should get involved with football.

There are now only 5 teams who could possibly win the Challenge Cup so most fans do not give a monkeys.

Could I alter things ? Course I could.

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 4:24 pm  

with it being on national tv too it doesnt exactly look good for viewers down south

Re: 5th round cup tie attendances. : Tue May 24, 2011 4:52 pm  

Knock On Nigel wrote:

with it being on national tv too it doesnt exactly look good for viewers down south

i think we have all established now that 'it' is not catching on down south anyway! so i wouldnt worry too much about that!