Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:48 pm  

galliant wrote:

Shouldn't you be watching Union on BT sports?

Must be the longest cancellation period in BT Sports subscription history

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:57 pm  

William Eve wrote:

I do have the stats Galliant but I won't be sharing them on here, despite all the fun to be had witnessing all the Moonies freaking out and frothing at the mouth over the pitiful attendance figures and then attempting to either pour scorn on them as an inaccurate portrayal or just simply attempt to shoot the messenger

Evidence last season also indicated that a certain Moonie publication was using my attendance figures and passing them off as their own in their published articles. The numbers they published and the timing and method of their publication was just way too much of a coincidence. They can do their own donkey work this season.

Suffice to say, the attendance figures thus far this season are hugely disappointing. Bear in mind that attendance figures during the first few weeks are always over-inflated due to excitement associated early doors with the new season. Attendances then stagnate and dip markedly during the summer months. The mere fact they are already down compared to last season is not good news.

It is always easy to tell how attendance figures are shaping up even without seeing any figures. If the figures are good, the Moonies will scream loudly about them, like they always do in Round 1. Then they go really quiet and STFU completely about attendances during the months of June, July and August when the figures are really crap.

On a related topic, I've noted there's been no mention of Sky viewing figures.

I wonder why?

A quick perusal of the viewing figures over at the BARB website explains why.

In comparison to last years Sky viewing figures (which incidentally were very poor and well down on previous seasons), this season they are even worse.

Currently 33% down on last season up to the beginning of March thus far.

None of that will rate a mention on the RFL website or in any of the Moonie RL websites or publications.

But every minute matters now.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:02 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Just a brief visit.

Saw an attendance thread and a request for info and couldn't resist

I keep my own counsel on attendance figures these days because the Moonie majority can't cope with negative news.

SL is an atrocious product on life support and it's getting worse.

Shame really because RL used to be a decent product once upon a time.

I'm not seeing any posts by Gutterfax. I can only assume the Moaning Moonie Majority have whined that much that he's been banned.

This forum used to be more accepting of a diversity of opinion but sadly no longer.

Happy new year to you too DA.

The product seems to be getting better and more exciting since the stupid yrs of licensing has been dumped

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:04 pm  

Fair enough William, i can't blame you for not doing the figures if thats the case. 33% down on viewing figures in 12 months is shocking though.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:05 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

But every minute matters now.

Irreparable damage has already been done to the game during the previous two decades, and particularly during the franchising experiment.

Too little, too late now.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:09 am  

William Eve wrote:

44,257 in attendance this week (Round 4) compared to 51,220 in attendance for the same fixtures last season. That represents a -13.59% drop on last season.

Nice one, but it's pointless doing like for like as you well know.

Round 4 average attendance in 2014 = 7320.86
Round 4 average attendance in 2015 (based on your 44257 figure) = 7376.17

You're welcome.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:16 am  

William Eve wrote:

Irreparable damage has already been done to the game during the previous two decades, and particularly during the franchising experiment.

Too little, too late now.

We all know your opinion counts for nothing.

William Eve wrote:

The official attendance for the BIG HIT double header semi finals event during the RLWC was 67,575 but that figure includes Club Wembley which accounts for 16,532 seats. Anyone who attended knows that very few of those Club Wembley seats were occupied, therefore the real attendance was closer to 53,000.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:24 am  

galliant wrote:

A near 14% drop is pretty severe, do you have the stats for the previous rounds William?

Round 3 average attendance in 2014 = 7961.57
Round 3 average attendance in 2015 = 8156.33

Round 2 up from 10424 to 10570
Round 1 up from 8404 to 9668

No idea on this weekend's but they're not hard to find, as you well know.

Overall averages are up for the first 4 rounds by about 500 or 7'ish %

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:12 am  

Not that I care either way, but I do casually wonder if this thread will still be around come october?

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:35 am  

GansonTheClown wrote:

We all know your opinion counts for nothing.

No idea if this was covered when he made that point but I'm sure that Club Wembley tickets didn't include the RLWC semi finals on their season tickets for Wembley events, they were sold separately.