Maybe to older posters, but I've been wathcing Leeds for 25 years now, and in all that time, they've been little more than a joke. I've never felt anything other than indifference towards them.

Leeds can barely support one RL team at the top level - two would be impossible. Hunslet should be a feeder club for the Rhinos.

Yes - out of nostagia - but most unlikely

That's the biggest danger. I'm not an older poster particularly but Rugby League needs to drink deeper at its founts of history and tradition and abandoning a visceral hatred for all things Hun is one tradition we should not relinquish. I give you four reasons:

1. The worst thing that can happen to a local rivalry is pity on one side or another. We must be vigilant.
2. The Huns maintain their side of the bargain magnificently, detesting us more than Hull and Cas do combined.
3. South Leeds? You just wouldn't would you.
4. 1938.

IN my dreams yes,but it is not going to happen,Hunslet was pulled down in the late 60s-70s most of those "weve swept the sea's before boys"Hunslet folk went to live in all the 4 corner's of the city,so the tradition was not passed on to last two generation's plus hunslet went into an abbyss that many other old historical clubs suffered some revived,some struggle on like Hunslet Hawks.I have worked in recent year's with blokes in their 40s who are lifelong Leeds rhinos fans.
I loved the old rivalry and "hatred"between us and them,but its over,its gone,but for people of my year's not forgotten

I have always gone to both teamsmfixtures, partly because my friends used to play for hunslet. Not sure that we will ever see this though

Sham joke of a club. They will never be in SuperLeague.

Unless you specialise in re-writing history, the underlined bit is clearly untrue.

Were not the one's who folded mid season like you did so bit ironic to be calling us a sham of a club especially after we put 50 points on you about 6 week ago and no we will never be in super league but neither will York

Not going to happen while Marchy is at Hunslet but he won't be here long term behind the scenes at Hunslet there is a few people who have come from Leeds so in future i think this will happen.

Given the overwhelming majority of residents from south of the river jumped aboard the rhinos bandwagon during the last decade and a half, you have my respect.

It's no coincidence that the chavfestation of Headingley occurred during the same period.

Not ironic at all, York Wasps were a joke of a club, much like Hunslet Hawks are now... And I never said York would be in SuperLeague.

I worked with a bloke up to last year he was 48 born and bred in south leeds attended parkside school,drinks in Tommy Wass's,leeds season ticket holder,told me he was life long leeds rl supporter.Now if that is true it also tells you that the generation after the demise/death,wich ever way you want to put it,is that the old traditional Hunslet legacy was not handed down.

Genius post.

Sadly, bettered by................

.......................this.

Brilliant!

Call me pedantic, but wouldn't this multimillionaire be better just building another 3 stands to their existing ground? When was the last time you went to SLS? It's pretty impressive these days mate, albeit only one stand, but still.

While I'm aware in a sort of academic way of the history of Hunslet, and hence generally keen to see them survive and live on, unfortunately in my recollection from the 20-something years I've watched RL, they've been that nomadic side from South Leeds who play in empty football grounds or empty athletics tracks.

If I'm being really honest they mean very little to me either way. I don't want to see any RL club fold, but that's about as far as I get. Outside the Lazenby Cup visits to the South Leeds Stadium, I don't think I've ever actually met a Hunslet fan. I never ventured to South Leeds all that much.

No but I'd welcome them if they ever became one.

When they were replaced in the traditional Leeds city pre-season encounter by Bramley the writing was well and truely on the wall and that was 38 years ago.

A few of us can still remember those times like it was yesterday (even though we may struggle to know what day it is presently ..... Wednesday, right - bin day)

Idiot. Monday is clearly bin day.

But which bin? We have to sort our rubbish into thirty different bins which are collected over 60 different days.

I just chuck all my rubbish over the neighbours fence.

Now you see, this is where Hunslet has and edge. Simpler system:

Non-recyclable waste - grey wheelie bin

Paper, glass and cardboard - green wheelie bin

Old, rusty domestic appliances, dead cats and Ford Cortinas with no wheels - front garden.

Quote ="El Diablo"Idiot. Monday is clearly bin day. '" Whenever it is we'll soon be back to weekly collections. Today's 'U' turn: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... ollections

Quote ="El Diablo"Idiot. Monday is clearly bin day. '" Whenever it is we'll soon be back to weekly collections. Today's 'U' turn: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... ollections

I vaguely remember going to Parkside with my old man,what a lovely,atmospheric stadium that was. The greyhound stadium was a good venue too.
Thursday is bin day, alternate ones for the brown bin,dont have a green bin,someone nicked it and I never bothered asking for a replacement

Leeds used to be home to five big rugby league teams in Leeds RL, Hunslet, Holbeck, Bramley & Leeds Parish church. I’d personally like to see at least three teams from Leeds in the super league if they fitted the criteria. The only problem is that Leeds Rhinos have got such a big monopoly on the rugby league circuits and we’ll never see another club be able to compete unless big investment was involved. It’d have to be done on the scale of South Sydney rabbitohs who were fallen giants before big investment came the clubs way.

I too used to like going to Parkside and if you tghink you have seen keen rivaly bodering on hatred you have not seen anything like Hunslet/Leeds and it even brushed off on the players."The old Lazenby cup games used toattract crowds of 20k and were played with such ferocity that players got injured before the season began,thats whywe had to stop the fixture for a long spell"to quote Harry Jepson.Those day's have gone and will never return,a whole hunslet generation have migrated all over the City and the next ones have either been lost to the game or bacame Leeds fans or leedsutd.I love the memory of the old Hunslet club,but its gone, sadly Leeds rhinos has now got the City to itself as a super league club