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The Blues 
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 Topic: Average AttendancePosted: 10 May 2024 at 22:53 |
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I heard that Blues this season have averaged (I think) 3,042 this league season. Adding almost 200 on last year. I guess we will be beaten by Coventry, who have had some impressive attendances but good to see the increases at both, which helps the finances and shows there are well supported teams below the Premiership!
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Kimbo
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Posted: 10 May 2024 at 23:17 |
Average Attendances: Coventry 3373 (down 67) Bedford 3061 (down 2) Doncaster 1884 (=) C. Pirates 1548 (=)) Cambridge 1411 (=) Caldy 1182 (up 11) Nottingham 1133 (down 1) Ampthill 1069 (=) Ealing 1024 (up 16) Hartpury 958 (down 36) L. Scottish 668 (=) (The up/down/= refers to the previous round btw)
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Andy_I
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Posted: 7 hours 56 minutes ago at 12:18 |
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A long time lurker who you used to occasionally post on TV audiences (back when the championship was on TV) Here are some useful figures for some context, now regular season is finished. Premiership total attendance 1,316,849 over 90 games. Championship total attendance 175,342 over 110 games. Compared to France: TOP14 (with 2 rounds to go) 2,204,597 over 168 games (will be around 2.4mil at end) PROD2 1,345,310 over 240 games. So you have around 3.75 million watching the top2 domestic leagues in france compared to 1.5million in England. Then you throw in the TV money, at 9.2M euros per team in top14 and 0.67M for proD2. The Premiership is £2.3M (after CVC's cut) and the Championship is nothing. It's easy to see why the French can support 30 fully pro teams and England has around 14. The powers that be, talk of making the Premiership the best league in the world but it's just hot air. They can't compete, as unlike France, they have a rival code and the deepest best supported pyramid in world football. So they are mostly reliant on RFU subsidy and sugar daddy owners, which is no long term solution. Maybe they could listen to the championship clubs and look at a whole game solution. Andy I
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Nat1
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Some interesting stats there that I hadn't thought about before.
What I would say is that actually, based on those figures, the Prem is equal to the Top14 in France in terms of attendance figures, relative to number of games (eg 90 Prem games to 180-odd Pro 14 games both garnering approx 2.5m. If anything, the Prem would see slightly more. Appreciate its all hypothetical but not the wide gulf you might expect. Obviously the size of the Prem is a contentious issue and a big part of the problem with unsustainable clubs having gone bust, and that's another whole topic of conversation. Where you see the big difference in figures you have provided is with the respective second tier leagues. If you applied the same number of games to both leagues as per the above with the Prem/Top14 (e.g. attendance/game ratio) the Champ would be left in the dust by some 1m deficit when compared to ProD2. I'd suggest that in the current climate, this is where the RFU believe they can gain some ground on their French counterparts and its clear to see that they have been severely lacking in finding the right way forward for a fully pro top two tiers. Hopefully things are finally being addressed with this.
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