yes. I meant sharing wit other clubs in the league.

What are you on about? The money Leeds vs Saints will lose because of the free tickets? If so, how does the corporate side come into it.

Why do you think an all paying crowd for a televised 4th round challenge cup tie will draw 15,000 punters?

I hope so. At last the BBC will be able to show an early round tie at a packed stadium with a good atmosphere and a noisy crowd. It will do the game's image no end of good.

Not seen this on here yet.

TV Games - Sunday 5th April BBC2

Catalans v Bradford - 2:30pm
Leeds v St Helens - 4:30pm

That's why I averaged the price out at £15.

The majority of tickets would sell at above that price.

I think both clubs will be expressing their dissatisfaction, particularly the one who loses.

From a Wigan p.o.v. we have 10,000 season ticket holders, Barrow has a capacity of between 6,500 and 7,700 (dependent on who you believe).

How will that work?

Why do you think a 4th round televised cup tie would draw a crowd of 15,000?

The Leeds v Wigan Cup crowds for the last two seasons were around 12,000.

I would expect that the "two best clubs in Superleague" could better that.

And as I said the £15 average ticket was way on the low side for Headingley.

It is a big loss in revenue, do you agree?

Probably but Leeds can afford it unlike Saints who I feel will feel the loss of the shared gate.

Can the Beeb actually afford to send people over to france to do the game, with this sort out equipment and then bring it back again..
and have double of this lot?

Any chance of having that in English and we might be able to respond?

We're on the march with Bluey's army
We're all going to Wembley
And we'll really shake em up
When we win the Challenge cup
Coz Leeds Rhinos are the greatest rugby team

Bye, bye MMC for another season...unless we find some decent attacking form

like you have for the last three years?

hahahahahahhahahahahahah

Why would Leeds bother marching to a building site three years ago?



I've no idea about Wigan but here are Leeds' CC attendances for the last two seasons.

30-Mar-07..... CC 4..... Headingley..... Leeds Rhinos V Workington Town..... 3,576

12-May-07..... CC 5..... Headingley..... Leeds Rhinos V Wigan Warriors..... 9,612

18-Apr-08..... CC 4..... Headingley..... Leeds Rhinos V Celtic Crusaders..... 5,087

11-May-08..... CC 5..... The Stoop..... Harlequins RL V Leeds Rhinos..... 2,300

31-May-08..... CC QF..... Headingley..... Leeds Rhinos V Wigan Warriors..... 10,129

26-Jul-08..... CC SF..... McAlpine Stadium..... Leeds Rhinos V St Helens..... 19,842

your playing in one now

As you've failed to answer the question I am pleased TVOC has done it for you.

Would you like to revise your fag packet calculations?

I appreciate Saints are a much better team than Wigan but they don't have the same support do they?

Why so glum (apart from your usual sunny disposition), Leeds are still scoring more and conceding less than St Helens are.

He's probably unnecessarily worried about the frailties of our right centre like the rest of you.

It wasn't the right centre at Warrington, it was the other right or left as I sometimes call it.

Without Keith Senior Leeds have an issue both sides.

So Gibson did a good job in the right centre?

So we have our right centre after all and when Senior's knuckles have been sufficiently rapped for selling medals he can play on the left and Watkins can be nurse-maided again.

So what was the problem?

I give it 3 mins before THIS thread is hijacked now by the right-side mafia.

too slow, it took 30 seconds

Leeds and Saints have actually had pretty similar opening games so comparsons are quite valid.

Warrington - Leeds were away and Saints at home. Leeds were never behind, and played with a patched up team after a very high intensity game at the weekend. saints had to overcome a significant defecit to win with a mostly full strength squad

Hull KR - Leeds were away, Saints at home. What I would call a professional performance from leeds. Didn't play well, but were the better team, and ground out a win. Saints led more than once, but couldn't close the game out

Crusaders -Saints away, leeds home. Leeds finished the game off inside 20 mins, then eased off the gas for the next 60. Saints struggled to make an impact, and would have been a lot less comfortable in the later stages than we were.

There's never a problem when you win.

Even when the dominant side lost. It happens sometimes but I wouldn't expect it to happen that often when you're defending a line 80 yards long.



And in the other game Leeds had Wakefield at home while St Helens had Huddersfield away. Two hard games against teams coming off excellent away wins who will be around the eight if they can maintain their early season promise.

If the game was this weekend Leeds by 12.

Is this based on anything, or you just having fun specualting?

Completely unsubstantiated speculation.

Although I did see him at HQ yesterday walking to his car and in my expert medical opinion there didn't look to be much wrong with him, apart from the Ford Focus he was driving.

Reminds me of a Barrie McDermott comment last season at Dewsbury.

'He's taken a bad knock to the shoulder.... that's why he's limping.'