the empty seats appeared to be in 2 big chunks, which makes me think they were either not sold due to an error, or bought by a re-seller/ticket tout and not sold on, or a coach trip that didn't make it to the ground etc prime seats near the half-way line don't just lie empty for a game in demand like that.

all decent attendances. i went to the png v france game and was impressed with the turnout which featured enthusiastic supporters of both sides as well as all the neutrals, should be an even better crowd for the png v samoa game

We watched the PNG-France game in a pub in Warrington and had 4 French blokes sat behind us who left at half time to walk to the HJ!

13,965 quoted on the official site and Sporinglife.com....although SKY NZ commentary team mentioned the 14k figure too.

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[urlhttp://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-league/live/match-report/36385/new-zealand-v-samoa[/url

Average attendance so far 16,625,ahead of 2008's first 4 games average by about 10%.



I said 360k would be the total attendance and I stand by that, given attendance/availability is tracking at about 66%. The remaining England games through to and including Wembley could well all sell out in the next few days....monthly pay-day is coming for some and the standard of games so far has been brilliant.



I've watched the Kiwi v Samoa game 3 times already.......I'd be surprised if Samoa aren't playing Fiji at the HJ in the 4th Quarter Final in a few weeks time.....they should murder France and PNG based on that performance and the earlier game.

8,872 announced for tonight's game bringing the total number of fans who have attended games at this RLWC to 75,370.



There still seems some confusion as to the gate at Warrington, but the RLWC official site has that at 13,965, so that's the figure I have used.



2008 first 5 games delivered 72,176, a tad over 4% ahead of that.

Right try and keep averages out of this one too. This is more about total figures for games.



If people want to talk averages you have your very own thread to get all semantic in.

7,630 announced for tonight's game bringing the total number of fans who have attended games at this RLWC to 83,000.

2008 first 6 games delivered 83,545, so tracking pretty much the same as last time.

even so far, but we'll get more in the final and the semi this time, i'm pretty confident we'll smash 2008's total!



although i'm sure many on here will produce a dossier of stats and mitigating factors which show it has done far worse

Workington said they'd deliver, and they have done. That figure should be smashed on Sunday I reckon.

Generally, Sporting Life's attendance is published by all other sites as they use the Press Association for content I believe.



So once one site gets it wrong, the rest do - it's happened with SL games.



See Chris Terris Taylor's tweet from Warrington Guardian:



Chris Terris Taylor ‏@Cterristaylor 27 Oct

@ollielloyd There’s been some confusion, press were given figure of 13,965 but it was announced as 14,965. 2nd one prob right

I've said 360k will be the total and am confident it will be.

The same thing happened at Saints towards the end of the season. The announcer said one figure the screen showed another. It took a few days to sort out the correct attendance.



These things happen.