littlerich wrote:
You miss my point. I just don't believe the figure they announced. I have eyes, a brain and a memory. Using my not so special skills i put the three together for the Sheffield game and the Leigh game today and i just don't see how there were more at the Sheffield game.
You are probably right, what I understand is that clubs are allowed to count season ticket and other tickets issued up to a certain percentage (think its 80% but not certain) i.e you can count the actual gate and add all 'issued' tickets up to that 80% but only for league games and some of the Sky and NRC games where clubs are given free tickets by the sponsors.
If I am wrong then somebody correct me but this is going on throughout RL and could explain why when you attend a game you see less people than the 'official' attendance.
Come on look what the 'official' attendance was at Fev and yet the Fev fans say we only took a few hubdred, yet we made up around 25% of that crowd when you looked (at least).
Its what annoys me as SL fans go on and on about how big the crowd was at X yet there was never that many actually there.
In the pre-SL era I am damn sure what you saw what was you got unless there was actually more there and they reduced the gate to get more in the coffers and keep under the capacity like at Thrum Hall once against Wigan!
Either way I wish we would see the true attendance figures as I am sure we would all be in for a shock.
Why do the Challenge Cup games and NRC games always have much lower crowds???
Cos its ALL PAY. (apart from this year where we had the first game on our season tickets to increase the gates).
