Empty seats have become a sight far too common in the modern rugby game. The World Cup last year helped to increase rugby's exposure with large media attention but attendances for first division matches have become disappointingly low.

One of the key issues in the professional era of rugby union is the low attendances of the top leagues in the Northern Hemisphere. The largest stadium in the Aviva Premiership is the Madejski Stadium, a football stadium, with a capacity of 24,161.

Welford Road, surprisingly not a football stadium, is Leicester's home ground and holds 24,000 people. Another football stadium, Vicarage Road, holds just shy of 20,000 and Kingsholm, a rugby stadium, has the fourth largest capacity with 16,500.