Hi all, the view is that it has been disappointing with regard the attendance for tomorrow.
I know Hull have sold over 8k and Huddersfield 3k.
Surely with Leeds Woman getting there a crowd of 30k should be realistic ???
Hi all, the view is that it has been disappointing with regard the attendance for tomorrow.
I know Hull have sold over 8k and Huddersfield 3k.
Surely with Leeds Woman getting there a crowd of 30k should be realistic ???
Just posted in another thread.
Over 20k now sold, RFL hoping for 23k.
Originally Posted by Despondent Dave
Let's hope there are no Blue seats on show !!!
Hello YG, it was on the clubs forum last night.
It was in a thread about coach travel and costs of it.
Everyone going to the boozers near the ground or the city centre tomorrow?
I've not seen any figures at all but we tried to book through the rfl and there weren't many decent seats so spoke to saints and they didn't have many either.
City centre. Several pubs and bars near the station,the taxi in.
City centre for me. Used to live in Leeds so I’ll be going to a few places around the train station then getting a taxi to the ground.
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[QUOTE=Blobbynator;844940]Just posted in another thread.
Over 20k now sold, RFL hoping for 23k.[/QUOTE
23k for 2 semis? Where did we go wrong?
It’s the same issue all the time. We sell the event too short, 3 games on one day and might reach 20k. It’s a joke.
Did you see the Twitter feed for the cup this week? Wrong time and wrong date on it. Hopelessly marketed.
North tap room 5 mins walk from station then Uber to the ground. Looking forward to it!
Think it's time to bin off this double header crap . Elland Rd capacity 37800 or thereabouts . Claims of 23k are fantasy hardly anyone there for either game and very few coming early for the 1st game or staying for the second . Get back to separate games at smaller stadiums , looks crap on tv all the swathes of empty seats
It would have sold out easily. I hate these double/triple headers. The semi finalists deserve the occasion to themselves - plus empty stadiums look awful on TV.
I believe the BBC insisted and said they would only televise one semi otherwise. In that case, they should have offered the other to channel 4 or Sky.
We played a semi against Wigan at Wire back in 2012 or thereabouts and it only got 12k. But 12k there looks pretty full of course.
If you think that we got 17,800 on Good Friday that means about 7-8,000 (non ST holding Saints fans plus the Wigan allocation) bought tickets for what is essentially a traditional yet meaningless game in the grand scheme of things, but only a fraction of those will have bought a ticket for what is one of the biggest games of the season. I don’t think even playing it at Wire would have persuaded even half of those causal fans to go, yet they went on GF. I’m not sure how we’ve got a stage where we obviously enthuse casual fans about a game ten weeks into a league season where sixth gets you into the play offs, but do not enthuse them about a must win cup semi final.
Season ticket culture is a major reason, and lots spend a wedge before the year then don’t wish to spend money on extra games, which financially is fair enough, but I grew up in an era where everyone was feeling the pinch yet we still managed to take 10,000 plus to semi finals at Old Trafford and such places. Life has never been particularly fantastic financially for alot of the games core audience has it. Nowadays it’s different, SL has done well selling its semi-pointless regular season to fans as the main thing, and the RFL (aided by Sky’s anti-Cup propaganda of old) has done a shameful job selling our oldest and most prestigious cup competition.
Sign of the times, I don’t see it ever be repaired unfortunately, I think the Cup is dying before our eyes and we can blame whoever we like but deep down the fans of the game have allowed it to happen. Anyone watching yesterday who may have been interested in the game would have one logical thought, namely why should they care when thousands of fans of the two most famous clubs in the game couldn’t care either.
I agree with most of what you say but the neutral should have been interested because, despite the numbers and the ignominy of defeat, it was a good game from the casual viewer’s point of view. Having said that I’m worried that Huddersfield will travel to Tottenham with low numbers and that will look bad.
P.S. Good game because of the excitement our second half comeback should have generated, not because of a silky display of skill.
Last edited by Suttoner; 8th May 2022 at 15:27. Reason: PS