Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:51 pm  

I was just using the http://www.superleague.co.uk to work out our average home attendence (which turned out to be 7,951, which is looking pretty good) and on the filter drop down menus there was a list of all the superleague teams as expected....also in the list were North Wales Crusaders. It seemed to be a random error in the websites code, but try it out, its really wierd coincidence that its team that everyoone believed the RFL were bank rolling and not someone like Fev or Halifax. 1.2b. Copyrighted materials * Linking to sites carrying content without the permission of the copyright owner, or mentioning how to access such material, is forbidden. * This also includes posting links to, or explaining how to access, unauthorised video or audio of copyrighted broadcasts and recordings. * When linking to official audio or video, only do so to the relevant page on the official web site. Do not link to other sites or directly to a media stream as this is usually against the terms and conditions of the service. * Photographs may only be posted where you own the copyright, or have been granted permission to post them. * Copying full articles or posting video is prohibited. * When including any such material you must post the source. Just link to the web page in future please. El Rey.

I was just using the http://www.superleague.co.uk to work out our average home attendence (which turned out to be 7,951, which is looking pretty good) and on the filter drop down menus there was a list of all the superleague teams as expected....also in the list were North Wales Crusaders. It seemed to be a random error in the websites code, but try it out, its really wierd coincidence that its team that everyoone believed the RFL were bank rolling and not someone like Fev or Halifax. 1.2b. Copyrighted materials * Linking to sites carrying content without the permission of the copyright owner, or mentioning how to access such material, is forbidden. * This also includes posting links to, or explaining how to access, unauthorised video or audio of copyrighted broadcasts and recordings. * When linking to official audio or video, only do so to the relevant page on the official web site. Do not link to other sites or directly to a media stream as this is usually against the terms and conditions of the service. * Photographs may only be posted where you own the copyright, or have been granted permission to post them. * Copying full articles or posting video is prohibited. * When including any such material you must post the source. Just link to the web page in future please. El Rey.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:10 pm  

Ignoring the conspiracy theory bit and focusing on the attendance, we are 49 short of an 8,000 average and we have 4 home games left against Wigan, Leeds, Saints and Widnes.

Last year we got 8763 for Leeds, 8163 for Wigan, 5985 for Saints and obviously nothing for Widnes. If we can get a similar figure for Widnes as we did for this years Salford game (6748) that would leave us needing to get just under an extra 3000 across those games to beat the 8,000 mark for the season. That is an average of about 10% increase on last years figures.

It is definitely achievable and would be an excellent platform to take the club forward and a huge credit to Andrew Glover and his team.

Come on guys, keep getting down there in numbers and we can do it.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:12 pm  

Surely It would be up by more than 10% If we hit a average of 8000?

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:29 pm  

It would be great to see average gates of 8000+!

Anyone willing to estimate the season ticket offer for next year? It will be interesting to see the prices! Too high and the uptake could be smaller, too low and they could be losing out on quite a bit of cash. I'd guess £125 early bird.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:32 pm  

Wildcat26 wrote:

Surely It would be up by more than 10% If we hit a average of 8000?

Yes it would.

What I was trying to say, although having read it I can see that it's not overly clear, is that if we can get a 10% increase on those 3 games against Leeds, Wigan, Saints then we should surpass the 8,000 mark.

Last time I looked we were up by about 30% on the respective games from last year.

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Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:39 pm  

If Leeds and Wigan gates are the same, Sts and Widnes would both need to be over 7600.
or average 8,132 for each game. Not impossible. Will depend on tv and whether Widnes have anything to play for.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:17 pm  

£125 early bird season ticket price for next year looking to attract the same number of sales plus a few more by running a small campaign, coinciding with a good signing or two and chairman press releases.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:19 pm  

We where chatting about the new prices the other day and obviously £100 is too cheap but to go straight back to £200 plus would undo all of the hardwork.

£125 seems about right to me, then £150 and then back up to £200 for NM

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:13 pm  

can i say as a cas fan your crowds this year have impressed me more than any. The amount it has increased this year a long with people been friendly barring the odd one like all clubs, but yeah on a whole well done Wakefield Trinity.

Re: Conspiracy alert!! : Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:24 pm  

I'm quite glad this turned into a serious conversation about attendances, the conspiracy bit was supposed to be a light hearted bit.

I think I'd like to see the ticket prices rise a little bit slower (well I'm sure most buyers would as well for obvious reasons) just as to not put anyone off. I think the latest Newmarket news will be a great boost to sales for next year as well.