after all the debate about the poor crowds for the play offs so far, i was wondering what people's thoughts on tonights crowd is?

what would you consider a good/bad crowd etc?



personally i think anything over 5,000 will be a good crowd when you take into account:

its a friday night game

its live on sky

away support will be almost non existant

its all pay, fair enough the club have reduced ticket prices and good on them for that.

considering we struggled to get 5,000 for a cup quarter final on a roasting sunday afternoon with a decent away following.



whatever the attendance tonight im damn sure we'll get some grief over it.

I can't see it being much above 5k either, TBH.



I shall be attending but getting the ST has, in a way, kind of left me unprepared for these games at the end. Bit of a grey way of explaining it like, but I hadn't considered the cost of these games until it's just round the corner.

It's the credit crunch I'm afraid.



Other teams can hardly moan.



6K at Sts with a big giants following was shocking

Is it all credit crunch or is it partially people not buying into the concept?



I think the recession has certainly exaggerated the figures but the play off earlier stages generally haven't been as well attended as league fixtures.



I remember our game at Hull the other year was down on the league game attendance wise.

It's also the time of year to renew season tickets so that doesn't help either!

Aye, it's turning into an expensive time of year is this!

To be honest i'll be well pleased if we get 5,000 if the other playoff attendances from last week are anything to go by. If we win another expensive weekend next week and if we win that more expense at old Trafford. It's been a very expensive last couple of months following the Giants, challenge cup semi and final together with holidays etc, and still haven't got my season ticket yet. My wallet will be glad when the season,s over, i just hope it isn't over untill after the grand final. I can understand why supporters are more inclined to watch the playoffs on tv with a few beers rather than having to shell out what has been a very expensive few months, but i'm not complaining and hoping for more of the same next season.

Good luck for tonight, you better win cos ive got money on you to win the GF.

4.5k

4,467

That's the downside to following a seccessful team though

i think around 4500 but anything over 5k will be good