No one argues that, certainly not me. At no point has anyone claimed RL to be more popular than football if they did they take the piss and deserve to be ignored ..
If you put the RL Magic Weekend in to context it has failed to fill Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester & Newcastle. I'm not being derogatory to eggchasing just stating fact, so trying it in Hull for COC2017 is actually a good idea in a smaller stadium.
As they had a record 39,331 on the Saturday and 28,945 on the Sunday, they're unlikely to move it somewhere with a 24,5000 capacity.
I'm sure our eggchaser councillors could come up with a bid, supplement fan park in West Park with big screens, but insufficient hotel capacity for COC anyway.
Well you wrote this. It just seems strange that you liked this post, as it is hardly balanced, or is it? Hence my question. Newcastle averaged 49,754 in 2015/16, they have nudged just above 50K in prvious seasons, 2007/08 the last time they exceeded 51K, so I can't see what there is to 'like' about a post that uses routine NUFC attendance as some sort of stick to beat RH or RL with, do you? Magic weekends are not routine and vary in venue, so that, perhaps, makes them worthy of some exceptional coverage; or is that wrong? Or was it the mention of the HDM photo you liked? Just curious as you appear to be quite an authority on the media, etc.
I don't know how accurate those figures are, but they're totals for the whole day. I didn't watch it all, but looking at the images, I very much doubt that there was ever any point that there were more than 20,000 people in the stadium at the same time.
The whole point is that that horrible little bastard Gwylum is stirring it up coz he thrives on people being at each others throats.
I've got absolutely no idea how many there were at any given point, but it looks like at least for some of the games it was really quite full... please log in to view this image
It doesn't look that full even on that picture. There are a lot of empty spaces if you zoom in, plus it's already a reduced capacity with the upper tier closed.
It's somewhat academic, they sold 38,000 tickets for the Saturday, they obviously couldn't do that in a 24,500 capacity stadium.
Not quite that obvious, there are ways it could be done as they've a wealth of experience to show how many are liable to be in the ground at any given time. It's academic, because they'll never admit that, that's the size that could accommodate them.
The two posts are not even remotely linked or contradictory. One was about the BBC allocating equal air time to clubs with a smaller following than ours, which is as it should be cos the BBC is not supposed to be about audience figures. The other post was about a reporter creaming his kegs when claiming there were 50,000 rugby fans watching the Humber derby - which they werent - whereas there was no such ecstatic reaction when 50,000 people did watch City at the same ground.
Its not news lying that 50,000 will watch the Hull derby either. I wasnt suggesting that 50,000 people watching City should be news. The point is neither story was news but one of them (supposedly, I didnt hear) was announced as if it was news
