Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:03 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

5,410 That really is shocking.....Bradford were odds on for a win and yet their fans couldn't be bothered to turn up? Hardly makes them an attractive investment proposition if fans won't tuen up to see a bolted on victory

Enough to finance the best Championship squad next year

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:15 pm  

A bolted on victory against no-marks in one of the worst weeks in the club's history. I went in to work this morning and considered staying there instead of going myself.

Maybe potential investors will take heart from the fact that Bradford's lowest ever SL-era attendance is higher than last year's league leaders attendance when St.Helens visited, one of the eras most trophied clubs. It's an aspirational figure for all bar one of the other clubs in the county against opposition that can be expected to turn up with any fans at all.

For Bradford it's a shocking disgrace and proof of something, probably that they ought to go down.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:27 pm  

gutterfax wrote: 5,410 That really is shocking.....Bradford were odds on for a win and yet their fans couldn't be bothered to turn up? Hardly makes them an attractive investment proposition if fans won't tuen up to see a bolted on victory I suggested on Page 2 of this thread that Bradford's opening attendance of 8,214 against Castleford in Round 1 could well be their 2nd highest home attendance of the season (Leeds obviously being the highest) which drew this "what a contrived, if-my-aunty-had-balls load of piffle" type response from Ferocious Aardvark (No surprises there). My suggestion was based on two premises... 1) The Round 1 attendance of 8,214 against Castleford was Bradford's lowest ever opening home attendance of any SL season and the first time Bradford have failed to record a five-figure opening home attendance of the season during the entire SL era. 2) Bradford Bulls opening home game of every SL season from 2009 has ended up being their 2nd highest home attendance of the season, the exception to the rule being the occasion when they opened their season at home to Catalan Dragons in Round 1 in 2012 and 10,610 turned up. 2009: 1st Bradford V Leeds 14,554 in Round 8, 2nd Bradford V Hull KR 12,141 in Round 1 2010: 1st Bradford V Leeds 13,269 in Round 15, 2nd Bradford V St Helens 10,165 in Round 2 2011: 1st Bradford V Leeds 19,275 in Round 11, 2nd Bradford V Wigan 15,348 in Round 1 2012: 1st Bradford V Leeds 20,851 in Round 10, 2nd Bradford V Wigan 12,909 in Round 3 2013: 1st Bradford V Leeds 12,016 in Round 14, 2nd Bradford V Wakefield 10,263 in Round 1 2014: 1st Bradford V Leeds ?????? in Round 9, 2nd Bradford V Castleford 8,214 in Round 1????

gutterfax wrote: 5,410 That really is shocking.....Bradford were odds on for a win and yet their fans couldn't be bothered to turn up? Hardly makes them an attractive investment proposition if fans won't tuen up to see a bolted on victory I suggested on Page 2 of this thread that Bradford's opening attendance of 8,214 against Castleford in Round 1 could well be their 2nd highest home attendance of the season (Leeds obviously being the highest) which drew this "what a contrived, if-my-aunty-had-balls load of piffle" type response from Ferocious Aardvark (No surprises there). My suggestion was based on two premises... 1) The Round 1 attendance of 8,214 against Castleford was Bradford's lowest ever opening home attendance of any SL season and the first time Bradford have failed to record a five-figure opening home attendance of the season during the entire SL era. 2) Bradford Bulls opening home game of every SL season from 2009 has ended up being their 2nd highest home attendance of the season, the exception to the rule being the occasion when they opened their season at home to Catalan Dragons in Round 1 in 2012 and 10,610 turned up. 2009: 1st Bradford V Leeds 14,554 in Round 8, 2nd Bradford V Hull KR 12,141 in Round 1 2010: 1st Bradford V Leeds 13,269 in Round 15, 2nd Bradford V St Helens 10,165 in Round 2 2011: 1st Bradford V Leeds 19,275 in Round 11, 2nd Bradford V Wigan 15,348 in Round 1 2012: 1st Bradford V Leeds 20,851 in Round 10, 2nd Bradford V Wigan 12,909 in Round 3 2013: 1st Bradford V Leeds 12,016 in Round 14, 2nd Bradford V Wakefield 10,263 in Round 1 2014: 1st Bradford V Leeds ?????? in Round 9, 2nd Bradford V Castleford 8,214 in Round 1????

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:39 pm  

vbfg wrote:

A bolted on victory against no-marks in one of the worst weeks in the club's history. I went in to work this morning and considered staying there instead of going myself.

Maybe potential investors will take heart from the fact that Bradford's lowest ever SL-era attendance is higher than last year's league leaders attendance when St.Helens visited, one of the eras most trophied clubs. It's an aspirational figure for all bar one of the other clubs in the county against opposition that can be expected to turn up with any fans at all.

For Bradford it's a shocking disgrace and proof of something, probably that they ought to go down.

You forgot to mention Bradford's attendance against London today was 83 higher than Widnes managed in Round 1.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:47 pm  

Nah, I didn't. No disrespect intended to Widnes but I don't give a flying one about their crowds, especially on a comparative basis with my own club's. Different kind of town almost entirely.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:51 pm  

relegation battle driving increased interest and attendances at clubs not competing for the play-offs. Problem was previously they werent playing for anything. British sporting psyche isnt it.

As evidenced at Bradford, Wakefield and London.

Its a good job Bradford are getting rid of their players too, obviously thats the route to strength. The Administrator must be raking it in today having saved Scruton and Sammuts wages as well cutting the attendance by roughly a quarter.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:33 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Total SL attendance Round 3 = 52,641
Same fixtures in 2013 = 53,062 (down 0.97%)
Same fixtures in 2012 = 61,995 (down 15.09%)
Same fixtures in 2011*= 66,046 (down 20.30%)
Same fixtures in 2010*= 57,956 (down 9.17%)
Same fixtures in 2009*= 54,173 (down 2.83%)

*Replace Widnes with the poorly supported Crusaders flight of franchised fancy.

Hey William, you really like statistics don’t ‘ya .

You must be missing the job this season, go on admit it, just a little bit?

The Bradford crowd isn’t helping with the coffers, I’d have thought a decent percentage are S.T holders?

I presume their playing away next week, so, there’s not a lot of cash coming in for the foreseeable.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:33 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

relegation battle driving increased interest and attendances at clubs not competing for the play-offs. Problem was previously they werent playing for anything. British sporting psyche isnt it.

As evidenced at Bradford, Wakefield and London.

Its a good job Bradford are getting rid of their players too, obviously thats the route to strength. The Administrator must be raking it in today having saved Scruton and Sammuts wages as well cutting the attendance by roughly a quarter.

Its called sport, there are winners and losers, or we could all just watch the wrestling

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:59 am  

Starbug wrote:

Its called sport, there are winners and losers, or we could all just watch the wrestling

It is sport and there are winners and losers. No need for P+R in that though.

And as is being shown, it doesnt drive interest or attendances> it in fact does the opposite. The bottom 3 clubs, the ones currently affected by it are showing a clear and large drop in attendances.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:08 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

It is sport and there are winners and losers. No need for P+R in that though.

And as is being shown, it doesnt drive interest or attendances> it in fact does the opposite. The bottom 3 clubs, the ones currently affected by it are showing a clear and large drop in attendances.

Their ' loss ' others will ' win ' , as I said, watch the wrestling if you dont like it