At Hull FC only members (season pass) holders are allowed in, given that fans had no idea what was going to transpire so didn't renew their season membership plus the insanity of 25% capacity rule, the whole hassle of gaining entry into the stadium, muzzle wearing and so on it's not surprising that supporter numbers are going to be a fraction of those from previous seasons.

Wigan had a slump in fans with their foray into the 2nd division with a home game low of just over 4,000 fans, in their return to 1st divison they had 11 home games with fewer than 5,555 fans, lowest was 3.5k for Whitehaven league game, their biggest league home game was 8k for the visit of Leigh. in the CC however they had a huge high of 17k for the Widnes 2nd rnd match, the fact it was only around 6k for the home league game both at CP and Naughton park shows how imporant the CC was back then.

Honestly I'm not surprised, and the reasons given [reviously are valid, fans have fallen out with the sport, gotten out the habit of going and with the way the sport has been going in how its played has been losing fans on that basis as well. Six again and the vague interpretation of that, no scrums all have an influence as a part of the turn off.

I really want to go to the FCv KR game in late August and take my son and mum when we travel up for her birthday, but it's likely that there won't be a game or worse the game is on but medical apartheid for entry.

Attending games on a regular basis is a habit .........covid has broken that habit and if your assuming folk will return to their pre covid routines in 2022, you're in for a bit of a shock.

9,200 on today against Leigh with about 400 Leigh fans. It’s still short of a normal crowd but it was a good step in the right direction.

The second world war war broke the habit years ago, but post war crowds were bigger than ever - Once it was all over and people felt safe they flocked to rugby and soccer because they had the freedom, the danger was over, and they wanted to get out of the house.

1948 season Wire.v.Wigan 34,000 crowd, 1947 Leeds,v,Bradford 40,000 these were just league games...........

Probably nothing worth watching on the 250 TV channels they had back then either and ryanair and easyjet flights weren't as cheap as they are now



2022, if you're back to a semblance of normality then, is going to be a HUGE year for many sporting clubs. Football isn't even immune.....Union and League being niche sports will have to work overtime to get their pre-covid fans back, let alone new ones. The average age of fans at London Broncos is north of 55yrs.....it's similar at a great many clubs.....we're at the last generation of 'my dad took me's"......the game needs to adjust its offering and strategy.

Yeah, most SL clubs would be rather happy with a crowd of over 9K against a team who had lost all of their 13 league games.