Warrington Wolves • RFLs answer to dwindling Wembley Crowds...
Alffi_7 wrote:
I don't have an issue with adding a game to the Challenge Cup Final day.
It isn't the event it was, the RFL can market the hell out of it (I'm sure they can do better), the fact is as an event it now competes with the SL Grand Final, within striking distance for 90% of SL fans, and the Magic Weekend - an event that involves every SL club. 30 years ago there was no such competition.
30 years ago a Wembley final attracted an avg of mid to late 70k fans. Take away the anomaly of a Wire v Cats final and not much has changed. SInce the final came back to Wembley it has achieved similar crowds. A Widnes v Bradford 1895 final could well add 10k to the Wembley crowd. Why wouldn't we do that?
Wembley CC attendances are down if you look over the last 20 years there is no doubt about that.
I think it's the mindset of the RFL. The strategy seems to have changed from getting new people to watch and marketing the game with showcases in non RL areas. The strategy now seems to be "get more of the existing fans into one stadium at the same time by multi-game events"
Statistics: Posted by Wires71 — Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:56 am — Replies 8 — Views 656