Another reason why clubs are moving towards prioritising corporate sales is because it's controllable income. The club has a longer window for selling games. Plus they are not at the mercy of weather conditions, game conditions and other external factors that can cause fluctuations in walk-up takings and travelling support.

Always liked the Friday night option best, in the height of summer it's a cooler option, there are other things to be doing on a Sunday afternoon but very little on a Friday night and gives the weekened a nice start when there's a game to look forward too on a Friday.

Although it does get too late for very young children on a Friday; the advantage from a family point of view is that it does leaves Sunday free for some quality time - you can go out for the day or whatever, which isn't an option on a Friday night. Also if I'm not taking the kids I can go to a game when they are in bed and still have the weekend free to spend time with them. So for me, Friday night is more family friendly.

Are you sure the club don't pay you to try and put a super-positive spin on absolutely everything?!

Ok, now get a mean average score of attendances at previous home games versus Catalans. Replace the massively over-inflated figure for the final game with the mean average score. Then calcualte a new average attendance for the 2011 season and compare with the official average. THEN take into account that many opposing teams supporters will have attended an away day at the Willows just because it was their respective team's last visit. THEN take into a account the unprescedented distribution of free tickets last year.



Then enter the actual figure into SPPS, press some buttons and conduct a 14 way ANOVA to see if our attendances are statistically significant across Super League... Erm, you could probably drop the last bit. ; )

Or we can just state what really happened....rather than put a negative spin on everything...we gained 300ish....now if we get our house in order both on and off the field who knows what will happen.

Bobby even I understand that it's not as simple as that!



An over inflated last gate, Some away teams bringing bigger numbers due to their elevated position in the league standings.



I stand to be corrected, but I'd put my house on the avg gate for last year being less than usual had it not been for the last game.

By my quick calculations, minus the last game of the season we averaged 4,305 (rounded up).

Unsettling, isn't it?

So is this turning into a game of what may have happened rather than what did?



Our average crowd is up on the year before FACT after a truly horrible season were we lost 3 coaches and very little promotion

Yes. Or it was a tounge-in-cheek comment to a mate, take your pick.







2010 average hasn't been mentioned yet, has it? We've gone from 2009 to 2011 from what I can see.

2010 wasn't on when i checked.