Hi all great result tonight but looking on the t.v. tonight i noticed that the North Stand was closed and the Cas fans where put in a section of the East Stand. Looked to be 200 hundred plus. Whoever is in charge of the DW does not want to pay staff and is confident there will be no trouble. Also the announced crowd was just over 10,000. Looking on the t.v. it looked 8.500 MAX The East stand only had 2,500 max South 3 ,500-3,800 and West around 1,500-2,000 The club will have to pay tax on tonights gate and will make a loss is my prediction is true

Non attending season ticket holders are counted, predominantly kids given its a Thursday night game.

Never change Frisky

What you getting at Sherlock ?

North stand gets closed often when travelling team has poor following.

Attendance did look shocking. Thursday games not helping I’m guessing.

According to a steward that i spoke to in the East Stand Castleford brought 104 supporters,the way that Castleford were saying that they had sold out of support travel i thought that they must be bringing about 1200

Very poor following, the buses from Wakefield mustn't have stopped.

In fairness to Cas, us charging the away fans we decide to move to the east stand £30 is poor form. Times are tough for plenty of people and we don’t want to price people out of games.

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t I suppose when it comes to the club trying to stem the losses but I think banging the ticket prices up is a lazy way of doing that.

I agree, £30 a ticket on a Thursday night when the game is live on SKY was hardly going to bring the masses.

Ouch didn't realise that they are being charged that much,makes no sense to me of course yih shouldn't rely on away support but at least try and tempt.them over.

I fear a poor crowd come Friday to be honest as well but we shall see.

It’s not good and the club needs a rethink for me. If a family with two kids wanted to come from Cas to that game on Thursday, this would’ve been the ticket costs-

2 Adult tickets-£60
2 U18’s tickets-£42 (Non ST child price)

They may need to eat out to make the game, so add another £30/40/50 maybe and then fuel prices are ridiculous. You could be talking the best part of £200 for a game that is on tv.

Yes the club isn’t a charity but surely all the clubs can work together and do their best to make it affordable. We’re a family game but in the current climate what hope would some families have of attending?!

Agreed. I've just got my Leeds A tickets for me and my eldest lad. He's 11 now and wants to go to the aways as well as home games. It's cost me £24 as an adult to stand up in that stand with no cover. We've booked coach travel as he's never done it before and wants to experience what I did as a kid for years going to away games.

So far the whole thing has cost me £62 and that's before any food or drink. At least I won't have fuel costs due to the coach but it's not cheap anymore.

A game at the old ‘best stadium in the country’ or so Leeds fans and the broadcasters tell me. As an away fan I certainly don’t class it as such.

Yeah, it’s not cheap mate but what do you do. You want to let them experience those away days and fuel that fire whilst they’re growing to love the game. I just hope all clubs and certainly my own has a think about how we can get more people to away games and that isn’t just charging the die hards more.