Quote king of the shed="king of the shed"I was using them as examples, you can add Saints, Warrington, Widnes or whoever but crowds in the 70's were poor across the board, I think Chico or Walshy had some stats on that?
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Crowds were comparatively low across the board in the early 70s. In retrospect, Salford crowds were way above average. Sadly I don't know how to inflate the figure to a contemporary average.
If you take the 1973 Kangaroos tour as an example of the top-end attendance certain clubs could achieve, Salford compared well. In fact, more turned up for the game at The Willows than the first and third tests:
[code30/09/73 Salford 12 - 15 Australia 11,064
03/10/73 Wakefield Trinity 9 - 13 Australia 5,863
07/10/73 Dewsbury 3 - 17 Australia 5,685
10/10/73 Castleford 10 - 18 Australia 2,419
14/10/73 Widnes 10 - 25 Australia 5,185
19/10/73 Oldham 10 - 44 Australia 2,895
24/10/73 Cumberland 2 - 28 Australia 3,666
28/10/73 Bradford Northern 14 - 50 Australia 5,667
03/11/73 Great Britain 21 - 12 Australia 9,874 1st Test @ Wembley
07/11/73 Hull K.R. 9 - 25 Australia 5,150
10/11/73 Huddersfield 2 - 32 Australia 1,333
11/11/73 Leigh 4 - 31 Australia 2,607
13/11/73 St. Helens 11 - 7 Australia 10,013
18/11/73 Featherstone Rovers 13 - 18 Australia 5,659
24/11/73 Great Britain 6 - 14 Australia 16,674 2nd Test @ Headingley
01/12/73 Great Britain 5 - 15 Australia 10,019 3rd Test @ Wilderspool [/code
