Who will take the most fans to France this weekend ??

1. Halifax

2. Quins

3. Not Sure


Halifax will take over 500 more than the Quins

Quins of course. This is afterall their local derby, and the 'expansionists' dream fixture. This is what Superleague is all about!

So more than one in 4 Halifax fans are heading to France for this game, has the credit crunch not effected your town?

That number is surely pie in the sky, plenty of SL clubs all of which have higher gates than you would struggle to take that many.

Im only expecting Widnes to take a couple of Hundred.

course we will!

did you not hear?!

toulouse have sorted us all out with parking for our many helicopters and private jets.

and also arranged tickets for us so we didnt have to mess about with euros! they must have heard the trouble widnes fans had when entering the shay for the NRL cup semi using cash!





well take more than quins do tho

Its a no brainer....defo Fax.

We will hammer quins for fans.

500 a bit on top side...

I don't know, it's closer to Monaco than London so The Pimms Drinkers may be out in force!

You can hardly take 100 to Widnes never mind 500 to France, saying that though Quins usually take about 10

Good Job it's only 2 points in the Franchise/Licence biddy thingy then isn't it

Sorry....away fans is "nil" points in the Licencing procedure!

Seriously guys.....in 2003 you averaged 2,976 fans compared to the fulhamcrusaderbroncoquins average of 3,547. 570 more fans at each game and if you're going to say they were all away fans....then why did these superdooper RL heartland fans travel 200 odd miles each way to watch us and dodge the more local "traditional" fixture



Oh...by the way....if you are going to say "Halifax were rubbish and getting hammered and that's why we had rubbish crowds, then I point you in the direction of Catalans year 1 (6,862) finished bottom and Celtic year 1 so far (3,700) going to finish bottom.

Lastly my flatcapped whippet loving pigeon fanciers...........I would love to see the dummy spit from your 500 travelling fans













If SLY TV were to move your game in 2lose when 95% of people booked their trips when the fixtures come out. There are close to 70 Quins fans alone who will actually be on a Ryanair plane when the game kicks off.

Still, would love to see you and Widnes back in Superleague as the majority of your fans are top people.

if we take 20 fans well take more than them they arent even a proper club anyway

Come on now even the most biased fan can admit that Quinns crowds are an embarassment. I mean with all that catchment area to their selves you would think they may get a few more in the gates. At least the Cats have had the crowds to justify a place in SL.

Let's get real, we won't take that many, but I'd suggest that we'll take at least as many (or more) as other Championship clubs (our away support is probably second only to Widnes?)

We took around 250

Dont know how that stacks up with others up to now

Would expect Widnes to be top dogs with us , you and Fev next all around a similar amount

Then again , who gives a stuff , the surrender monkeys should not be in our competition , as Alex's dad posted on our site maybe we could have a ' themed ' day when we play them

We take rostbif and they bring white flags

We'll have to use VT logic to settle this.

Are there likely to be more people from fax or london in the whole of france in the whole month the ties are being played in?

London. And any stayaways are the fault of chippy northern fans holding them back and not the complete nonexistence of Harlequins support.

Didn't say we weren't a disgrace on the crowd front. Never have defended the clubs inability to attract bums on seats either, but what I did do, was respond to the friendly visit by the original poster who decided to start the same conversation on our board.
On the topic of crowds....please feel free to re-read the first line of my post above.........if you still don't understand the licence process, essentially, you get 1 point for 40% capacity and 1 point for a 10k average....the rest are awarded for youth development, competitiveness, decent ground etc..etc........therefore, we got in on merit.
I do appreciate your concern about our crowds, but please rest assured, we are OK with the SKY wedge and have cut our cloth accordingly (this time

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I have no qualms about the Bronquins travelling support, to be honest, how many of us could or even would travel 200 miles to a game every other week? A credit to their club the away travellers are, never had any grief off them and are just as much 'traditional' rugby fans as our neighbours along the M62 corridor who we have had trouble with in the past.

It's the poor home attendances which are the real dissappointment. The move from Griffin Park back to the Stoop was met with the fans as negative as they said most of the fans lived in close proximity to the ground and were settled, whereas the club said the fans would flock to the new idendity at a 'permanant' ground. This really hasn't happened.

On the pitch though they do play great rugby with an ever growing number of Englishman and Londoners coming into the first team.

I'm not going to Toulouse this weekend, does that make me as bad as the Bronquins fans who aren't going to the South of France?

Yes!

I was tempted

Damn and blast, ah well, I'll go and support a traditional RL side like Celtic.

What...they have no history. Now, fulhamcrusaderbroncoquins.....we have a heritage

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Back handed compliment my friend, make your mind up.
As for crowds well don't believe all that you read, teams have been inflating gates for the very reason you have written, to tick boxes for SL.
I wish that the RFL would stop this rubbish and ask for TRUE crowd figures, as in those who actually attend the game, but they won't cos they want to publish good crowds.
Like Celtic Crusaders really have got 3700 average gates???
I spoke to a Wigan fan and he said they took around 2K which was over half the crowd yet the gate was said to be something like 5700.
Yer right.

We were talking to a Toulouse administrator who said their crowds were between 2500 & 3500 this season. I've not seen a crowd figure announced yet for Saturday night but there sure as hell wasn't that many. I'd say we had about 400 fans there and accounted for about a third of the crowd.

crowd 2697

Whilst there have been some strange crowds announced, at the Stoop this year, we seem to be "under declaring"

I can understand the temptation to overdeclare crowds but that comes with the added tax bill, so are the benefits really that good to risk your fanancial stability? Why we are underdeclaring is a mystery to me, unless, as you say, we have previously overdeclared and are now being more truthfull....which is shamefull if true (and stupid, as we were always going to get a licence anyway).Good effort to take 400+ to 2lose BTW....(not a backhanded compliment BTW)