Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:02 pm  

JonB95 wrote: SL Attendances Round 1 - 10.38% increase 8.52% increase if you were to accept the officially reported Hull FC attendance of 10,178 in Round 1 rather than the unofficial and highly suspicious attendance of 11,400 which you chose to go with instead. You need to be consistent in the way you select which attendances are to be used and which are to be ignored. Applying an alleged official Catalan home attendance of 8,500 in Round 3 whilst ignoring an official Hull FC home attendance in Round 1 of 10,178 might otherwise be indicative of a cherry-picking agenda on your part.

JonB95 wrote: SL Attendances Round 1 - 10.38% increase 8.52% increase if you were to accept the officially reported Hull FC attendance of 10,178 in Round 1 rather than the unofficial and highly suspicious attendance of 11,400 which you chose to go with instead. You need to be consistent in the way you select which attendances are to be used and which are to be ignored. Applying an alleged official Catalan home attendance of 8,500 in Round 3 whilst ignoring an official Hull FC home attendance in Round 1 of 10,178 might otherwise be indicative of a cherry-picking agenda on your part.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:09 pm  

To be fair I've no idea what you used as your data last year???

When Saints put out 2 crowds, you would have had to have picked one too.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:10 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

I think this one needs to be down sized to 6300. It seems to be the one the superleague website are going with now.

For the time being, my total figures do include that 6,300 figure (which is also suspicious) only because I've seen no report or link to 8,500 (or any other alleged attendance) for that particular fixture. Perhaps Catalans and Bradford could engage in a fight to the death with the survivor claiming ownership of 8,500?

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:23 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Perhaps Catalans and Bradford could engage in a fight to the death with the survivor claiming ownership of 8,500?

A televisual blockbuster

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:16 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Could you provide a link to that suspicious attendance of 8,500?

Bradford Bulls also appear to be linked to a suspicious attendance of 8,500 depending on which official page on their official website you choose to believe.

Hi,
The only indication I have seen from the Dragons regarding the crowd vs Leeds is on the end of the highlights video on their YouTube channel (are links still banned here) which stated 8,500. I usually take figures from the club before anything else, and this is all I have found from the Dragons behalf.

I'm willing to change if I can find an official figure?

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:56 pm  

5,291 at Widnes tonight, 250 or so down on the equivalent fixture last year which is acceptable given the Thursday night TV timeslot.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:49 am  

JonB95 wrote:

5,291 at Widnes tonight, 250 or so down on the equivalent fixture last year which is acceptable given the Thursday night TV timeslot.

Still poor though considering they were pulling in close to 4,000 playing a comparable local club ( Leigh ) in the Championship also on thursday nights a few years back, especially considering their impressive start

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Fri Mar 07, 2014 11:15 am  

Starbug wrote:

Still poor though considering they were pulling in close to 4,000 playing a comparable local club ( Leigh ) in the Championship also on thursday nights a few years back, especially considering their impressive start

Kinda agree,, their crowds seem to be stagnating rather than growing. The 8k they got for their first game back in SL vs Wakefield showed that the potential is there..

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:40 pm  

They did not have an outstanding season last year. So it could be a hang over from that, but given their table topping exploits you would hope the club could capitalize on that sooner rather than later.

Get em in whilst your winning!

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:33 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

They did not have an outstanding season last year. So it could be a hang over from that, but given their table topping exploits you would hope the club could capitalize on that sooner rather than later.

Get em in whilst your winning!

Neither did 80% of SL clubs, and there is the problem, constant stagnation of clubs stuck in the ' never going to win anything, nothing to play for ' middle to bottom of a competition does not encourage growth, then you have the fallen ' Giants ' whose loyal fans are now abandoning them like rats on a sinking ship,

Couple that with a glass ceiling for 2 nd tier and you slowly erode away fans interest