While Thursdays might be a bad night for fans, with the right amount of notice they're a godsend for a club's commercial marketing department compared to Sundays.
I bet clubs with a focus on getting corporate customers through the door sell more packages for Thursday nights than they do for games on a Saturday or Sunday.
Don't know about this seasons Leeds game, but I know last year Hull had a Thursday night game and did not sell a single corporate box. I'd argue they have a fantastic commercial set up.
Over 20k sold for the hull derby Wigan sold out? Close to a sell out at Cas.
Yeah great news, probs be about 21,500 or so for hull in the end, last I heard Wigan had sold 23,000 but that was a few days back so I would assume a sell out now. Does anyone know what sales are like at Widnes??
Castleford 7068 up 8,128 Catalans 7667 up to 9,130 Hudds 6335 down to 5,865 Hull FC 11159 up to 11,999 HKR 7848 up to 8,260 Leeds 15068 up to 16,080 Salford 4738 down to 4,008 Saints 12120 up to 12,515* Wakefield 4351 up to 5,094 Warrington 9870 up to 10,129 Widnes 5635 up to 6,861 Wigan 14102 up to 15,608* *Couple of attendances missing off sporting life but all in all, a good look at the half-way stage of the season with only Salford and Hudds showing a dip in attendances.
Are they compared to teams averages over the whole of the 2014 season? If so that does look pretty encouraging, especially as you would expect attendances to improve further as weather gets better and we hit the business end of the season.
As I've said before on Salford their announced attendances never seem to bare an resemblance to the actual number there so not sure how much you can read into it. Anyone who went to their game against wigan will know exactly what I mean!
Castleford 7068 up 8,128 Catalans 7667 up to 9,130 Hudds 6335 down to 5,865 Hull FC 11159 up to 11,999 HKR 7848 up to 8,260 Leeds 15068 up to 16,080 Salford 4738 down to 4,008 Saints 12120 up to 12,515* Wakefield 4351 up to 5,094 Warrington 9870 up to 10,129 Widnes 5635 up to 6,861 Wigan 14102 up to 15,608* *Couple of attendances missing off sporting life but all in all, a good look at the half-way stage of the season with only Salford and Hudds showing a dip in attendances.
Not sure how you are calculating your figures. Based on the same fixtures last season Hull are up from 11,755 to exactly 12,000. The derby attendance was up by over 2,000 and the Catalans attendance by around 1,800. Leeds and Widnes attendances both down by around 1,000. The Widnes game was our lowest regular season crowd since 2006.
Castleford 7068 up 8,128 Catalans 7667 up to 9,130 Hudds 6335 down to 5,865 Hull FC 11159 up to 11,999 HKR 7848 up to 8,260 Leeds 15068 up to 16,080 Salford 4738 down to 4,008 Saints 12120 up to 12,515* Wakefield 4351 up to 5,094 Warrington 9870 up to 10,129 Widnes 5635 up to 6,861 Wigan 14102 up to 15,608* *Couple of attendances missing off sporting life but all in all, a good look at the half-way stage of the season with only Salford and Hudds showing a dip in attendances.
Wigan are averaging about 13,800 at the minute. Apart from the Saints game our crowds have been woeful this season, and have steadily been on the decline since 2012. Without the sellout crowd for Saints we'd be averaging about 12,100.