Him wrote:
Despite the person making the post there is of course a pertinent point about attendances. How clubs survive on crowds under 4/5k I don’t know.
The average crowd so far this season is almost bang on 9,000. Which doesn’t sound too bad and is probably an increase on the previous year’s end of season average but we’ve had probably 3 or 4 of the seasons bigger games already with Warrington & Wigan v Leeds, Saints v Wigan and the Hull derby.
Avg home crowd:
St Helens - 16,508
Hull KR - 12,100
Warrington - 11,807
Hull FC - 11,244
Wigan - 11,230
Catalans - 9,211
Castleford - 7,494
Wakefield - 5,815
Huddersfield - 5,387
Salford - 3,236
London - 2,149
Leeds - N/A
It’s disappointing crowds for Wigan, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Cas.
Obviously Salford and London are low but it’s kind of expected. You would have hoped Wakefield and Cas might have been able to push their crowds up a bit and Wigan’s was very poor.
Warrington and Hull’s are ok and Hull KR’s obviously is very good but will have to see how they go the rest of the season.
If the likes of Cas and Wakey are to progress and continuously challenge at the top they need to be getting 8k minimum every week.
Although the Wakefield crowd wasn't huge, it was the highest attendance for this fixture since 2013.
Typically this fixture generates around the 5k mark, so 5800+ is a modest improvement.
I love how you excuse Salford and London as being expected and as others have suggested, you may need to keep this one running a bit longer.
KR's attendance was superb but, they wont be hitting that number till next season and Cas, will probably improve on their attendance in every game, apart from any Thursday night fixtures.