As fans why do we love watching our teams?
I look forward to watching my team play every weekend as it fulfills something missing in my day to day life.
I would love to have the courage to be able to play at the top level (let alone the ability lol). I would love to learn how to be dedicated, disciplined and committed to a cause. When I watch my team play I want to see these characteristics. I want to see passion in my team and a ruthlessness to give there best effort in order to win. If we lose but give our absolute best I am a happy supporter. Regardless of completions or the entertainment value of the tries scored, show me the love. Love of the club.

If Wigan are dull, then dull will do for me.



We were absolutely fantastic yesterday, scoring breathtaking tries against the second best defence in SL.

Here's a thought, stop following the game then if it clearly doesn't interest you! When football started to become to farce it is whilst also my realisation that it is dull, I stopped watching or being interested.

What do you want the game to look like, all 'traditional' 1 on 1 leg tackles, I'm sure you know how that would look, interesting yeah?! I know many football fans who find rugby league more entertaining than their own chosen sport. The game is so admired from afar the bigger problem is some of the moaning from within.

Also nothing wrong with the tackle on solomona by the way.

Wish it was a majority sport even in West Yorkshire, that might boost playing numbers and the pool of talent from which to shape a challenge agains the Aussies! Sadly I think your analysis of the last 3-4 seasons is pretty accurate.

Not sure that GH's pre-season pronouncements were solely aimed as softening us (Leeds fans) up for a crap season. I think as a senior administrator he may indeed genuinely believe as I do that the product on the field is headed in a sterile and commercially unsustainable direction. (yes I know yesterdays game was exciting and pretty good overall) - my point is that there are fewer and fewer games even remotely approaching the standard we saw yesterday and that even yesterday's match was pretty flawed in many areas!

Of course I could just stop watching (and spending pretty hefty sums on season tickets for my family of 4, big games for 4, lots of merchandise etc) but I am what's called a fan and I live in hope that Leeds will be at the vanguard of a UK lead RL renaissance...It may still happen!

The best British teams, 'entertaining' or not have had structure - Hull 81-83, Wigan 80s-90s etc still played with some structure. The fact is that quality RL requires it.

Just on interesting comments, Gus Gould was talking about players' reactions to coaches. He suggested that players decide quite quickly if they think a coach is any good or not (well within a year), and that if they don't rate a coach and said coach starts getting stick, they are quite happy to let them take the flak. He reckons that's partly why they rebound with a new coach, as their excuse for laying badly - i.e. the coach - has gone. He was talking about the Bulldogs this season under Kevin Moore and comparing their effort to the effort under Jim Dymock.

The only difference between the Dogs under Moore and us at the moment is the Challenge Cup. The players want to win the CC badly - I'm not surprised at the increased effort last week and this.