Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue May 06, 2014 9:50 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

I seem to have had less trouble getting over my 27% incorrect guestimate regarding RLWC attendances than you.

You forgot to add "only"

Nothing to get over but I doubt anyone will forget your daily ranting, raving and general slagging off of the tournament site wide on here in the months leading up to it. You soon STFU when the first sell out was announced though and the back tracking after then was hilarious. Hardly the off the cuff "guestimate" you now try and claim it was.

Not seen too many "guestimates" from you regarding RL attendances since then for some reason but you do seem to take an extraordinary amount of pleasure when lower than expected crowds are announced.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue May 06, 2014 11:23 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Bit of a flawed comparison isn't it when we played some teams twice at home back then. Including Bradford when they were good and got over 20,000 for both games. Along with a freakish 17,000+ on the last game vs London due to picking up the LLS I imagine.

Flawed comparison it may be but it's not possible provide a more like-for-like comparison so we'll just have to make do. I accept entirely the logic of higher attendances when the top SL clubs were playing the top SL clubs more often prior to commencement of the 14 team franchising nonsense in 2009. That's why Hetherington in particular was beating the 3x8 drum so enthusiastically. He wants more home games against top SL opposition instead of whipping boy SL rabble because it means higher home attendances and more matchday revenue.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 2:29 am  

loiner81 wrote:

You forgot to add "only"

Nothing to get over but I doubt anyone will forget your daily ranting, raving and general slagging off of the tournament site wide on here in the months leading up to it. You soon STFU when the first sell out was announced though and the back tracking after then was hilarious. Hardly the off the cuff "guestimate" you now try and claim it was.

Not seen too many "guestimates" from you regarding RL attendances since then for some reason but you do seem to take an extraordinary amount of pleasure when lower than expected crowds are announced.

Look harder then. I've said this years SL crowds will be up on last year and 2015 will be higher again.
As for RLWC.......get over it. £5 tickets aside, it was a great effort by the organiser who has now left for pastures new whilst knock down Nigel took all the credit for the attendances at RLWC......and while we're at it, are you looking forward to seeing England RL in the flesh soon? Only asking because I will see team before you and I'm 12k miles away......LEGACY

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 7:33 am  

I'll bow to the Leeds fans on this, but is headingley's capacity not around 21k??

In which case, how could they ever have it as a season average?

That would require over 90% each and every week

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 11:30 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Look harder then. I've said this years SL crowds will be up on last year and 2015 will be higher again.
As for RLWC.......get over it. £5 tickets aside, it was a great effort by the organiser who has now left for pastures new whilst knock down Nigel took all the credit for the attendances at RLWC......and while we're at it, are you looking forward to seeing England RL in the flesh soon? Only asking because I will see team before you and I'm 12k miles away......LEGACY

A few hundred £5 tickets in Dublin and a midweek game in Leigh with the USA or some other non entity playing... Other sports do the same thing the world over. Nice try though and not desperate at all.

Hope you enjoy the games. They can't all be in the UK smashing attendance records left right and centre and after last year's festival over here it's the Anzacs turn to promote the international game. Kind of makes sense really, doesn't it?

Legacy? As you've said, 2 years of crowd increases (outperforming both Football and RU), record TV deal, new sponsors, Magic Weekend looking to break records by a long way, more RL on tv, both digital & terrestrial, than ever before. Pretty good i'd say and if the WC had been a disaster things would have been very different.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 2:39 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Look harder then. I've said this years SL crowds will be up on last year and 2015 will be higher again.
As for RLWC.......get over it. £5 tickets aside, it was a great effort by the organiser who has now left for pastures new whilst knock down Nigel took all the credit for the attendances at RLWC......and while we're at it, are you looking forward to seeing England RL in the flesh soon? Only asking because I will see team before you and I'm 12k miles away......LEGACY

Ah!! There's always something to be grateful for. Thanks for reminding us.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 5:23 pm  

I'm tempted to start a World cup thread and shift all this chaff.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 7:37 pm  

Ticket sales for the magic weekend look good, bottom 2 tiers are just about sold out for the saturday. Doesnt look as good for sunday though with not even the bottom tier sold out as yet

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Wed May 07, 2014 10:53 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Flawed comparison it may be but it's not possible to provide a more like-for-like comparison so we'll just have to make do.

Or you could not use such a flawed example at all seen as it doesn't show us anything solid to base results on.

But I suppose you've gotta keep impressing Gutterfax otherwise his crush might wear off

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Thu May 08, 2014 2:21 pm  

3 blocks of the top tier now open for saturday of the magic weekend for the first time, world cup effect and better marketing working