Re: Challenge Cup Final : Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:18 am
bewareshadows wrote:
Just looking back through the attendence history.
Throughout the late 80's and 90' a sun 80k attendance was standard.
Even the memorable saints bradford clashes at the start of superleague were 75-78k, for the last fixtures at the old stadium.
It only really crept over the 80k+ figure on the return to Wembley and I wonder how many of those years included the club Wembley seats.
If it hits over 70k it will be a good attendance.
Throughout the late 80's and 90' a sun 80k attendance was standard.
Even the memorable saints bradford clashes at the start of superleague were 75-78k, for the last fixtures at the old stadium.
It only really crept over the 80k+ figure on the return to Wembley and I wonder how many of those years included the club Wembley seats.
If it hits over 70k it will be a good attendance.
Club Wembley definitely masked the numbers by 10k or so.
But there has definitely been a decline in neutral support, i've attended in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2017 with Hull, the crowd went down 82k to 68k in that time, 10k is Club Wembley, but theres still another 4/5k who have gone missing. The size of the Hull and Saints/Wigan support felt about the same from memory.