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| Quote ="lionarmour87"Well this started off as being an opinion of wether Leeds are still regarded as a big major club and everyone is entitled to their own opinion , that's life!but you happened to switch it to an attack on Leeds people calling them thugs and Leeds have had their problems with fans like other clubs had at that time and Chelsea were called the National front club.Attendances in London is the reason why they in that city have never been as partisan as Northern people because they will attend the nearest big attraction . Leeds were getting there up to ten years ago the support was evolving and they were up their at around 39k, like I said before Leeds was never traditionally a football city but it was getting there and had a far bigger global fanbase than Cheatzi.Maurice Leyland wasn't a Leeds man ,but he was a Yorkshireman and once said to a southern journo "keep thi nose out its nowt ter do wi thee"'"
you think football fans in london are not partizan ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](//www.rlfans.com/images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif) west ham vs millwall, chelsea vs west ham, nal vs spurs, nah just friendly kickabouts.
Leeds utd fans have a bad rep which has not gone away, they attacked ipswich fans at elland road the year they were relegated to lge 1. now ipswich fans are the friendliest fans around but hey ho never mind lets get into em,
do you really think right now that leeds have a bigger worldwide fan base than Chelsea? ps i,m not even a chelsea fan but i,m guessing your wrong again ![WHISTLE eusa_whistle.gif](//www.rlfans.com/images/smilies//eusa_whistle.gif)
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| I must have hit the bottle early as I could have sworn this started as a thread about the 2015 Rhinos Squad ![CRAZY d040.gif](//www.rlfans.com/images/smilies//d040.gif)
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| Quote ="suffolk rhinos"no i don't, don't know what that has got to do with anything anyway? but feel free to quote away if it amuses you, facts are facts re the attendance you bet was higher, massive leeds have never in their history averaged over 40000 for a season. big clubs do, ps being a rhinos fan does not mean you have any love for the football club, i,m sure i,m not the only fan who does not support or even like LUFC'"
"Big" clubs are not quantified by attendances or even honours. If you ask any professional footballers, ex pros or pundits who were the "great" teams, only 3 are ever mentioned, Leeds Utd 60s 70s, Man Utd 60s, and Liverpool 70s and 80s. No other teams are ever mentioned by the people who count. So there you go, Leeds were one of the only 3 great teams in English football history. Not my opinion, the experts.
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| Great teams, not great clubs. Big difference.
Leeds United are not a massive club. They're a quite large club with potential for relatively high crowds but they aren't massive. Man United, Liverpool & Arsenal are massive clubs and Man City and Chelsea are becoming massive ones.
Even if they sold out every week in the Premiership they'd still only be mid-table in terms of attendances.
Just because they had a legendary team a few decades ago means sod all today. It's like saying Salford are a massive RL club because they used to be good in the 70's and won a few titles in the past.
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| Quote ="leeds owl""Big" clubs are not quantified by attendances or even honours. If you ask any professional footballers, ex pros or pundits who were the "great" teams, only 3 are ever mentioned, Leeds Utd 60s 70s, Man Utd 60s, and Liverpool 70s and 80s. No other teams are ever mentioned by the people who count. So there you go, Leeds were one of the only 3 great teams in English football history. Not my opinion, the experts.'"
really, so the man u teams of the last 20 years including , kean, giggs, beckham, scholes, ronaldo etc etc who won the treble 1999 were not great teams, neither were the unbeaten Arsenal team or the forest team who won two european cups under clough and beat the great liverpool team on the way, selective memories. leeds were a great team of players who under achieved and repeatedly lost the big games, you seem to airbrushing the last 30 years of football out of the equation,
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| Course, I'm sure you can back up that opinion with evidence from "experts".
To say that the dominant Man Utd team of the late 90s, or Arsenal's "Invincibles", or the Celtic side that actually went one better than Leeds and won a European Cup, or Forest who won two aren't "great" teams is absolute nonsense.
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| Is he still did digging his heels in about LUFC. He might be able to convince himself but Know one else is googling for it. Fact Leeds rhinos ate one of the biggest rugby (league or union) clubs in the world. Leeds United are not one of the biggest football clubs in Britain nevermind the world.
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| Quote ="rollin thunder"Is he still did digging his heels in about LUFC. He might be able to chimself but Know one else is googling for it. Fact Leeds rhinos ate one of the biggest rugby (league or union) clubs in the world. Leeds United are not one of the biggest football clubs in Britain nevermind the world.'"
When ever I've been in Europe and said I come from Leeds the Reply has always been Leeds United? 2004 I was was watching the baseball playoffs in a bar in Philadelphia it was NewYork Yankees v Boston Redsox it was the season Bost beat the curse of the Bambino .I was listening to the locals never let on where I come from ,anyway most think my Leeds accent is Irish.One bloke turned to meand and said there is real hatred between these two clubs you see Yankees are Manchester and Red Sox are LEEDS
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| can we please talk about rugby.... all this football talk is raising my pheromone levels....
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| Quote ="southern_rhino"can we please talk about rugby.... all this football talk is raising my pheromone levels....'"
Yes it did veer off a bit although they have a RL thread on WACCOE and all the LUFC out of town supporters go on there to slag Leeds Rhinos down and say they're not as big a Wigan and Saints etc
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| Quote ="suffolk rhinos"leeds averaged 34000+ chelsea 40000+ not even close'"
The idea that Leeds averaged 48k is dream land - Elland Rd has never been able to accomodate that number in the Revie era
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| Quote ="Sal Paradise"The idea that Leeds averaged 48k is dream land - Elland Rd has never been able to accomodate that number in the Revie era'"
I said at the start of season 1970 71 the first three home games there were over 47k .never been able to accommodate 48000 in the Revie era . 6 round FA cup replay march 1967just short of 58000 record attendance and there were several over over 50k Celtic ,Rangers both 50k been a few over 50k
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| Quote ="leeds owl""Big" clubs are not quantified by attendances or even honours. If you ask any professional footballers, ex pros or pundits who were the "great" teams, only 3 are ever mentioned, Leeds Utd 60s 70s, Man Utd 60s, and Liverpool 70s and 80s. No other teams are ever mentioned by the people who count. So there you go, Leeds were one of the only 3 great teams in English football history. Not my opinion, the experts.'"
Erm, just a theory but did all these "experts" shuffle off this mortal coil in the early 90s?
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| Quote ="Sal Paradise"The idea that Leeds averaged 48k is dream land - Elland Rd has never been able to accomodate that number in the Revie era'"
57,000 v sunderland says differently
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| did odsal hold a 100,000
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| If the record books are correct then yes it did
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| Quote ="doc-rhino"did odsal hold a 100,000'"
Official attendance 102000 and apparently thousands locked out
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| Quote ="doc-rhino"did odsal hold a 100,000'"
Official attendance 102000 and apparently thousands locked out
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| And thousands broke the doors open and got in.
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| My grandad took a brick with him just so he could put in the soil on the hill to stand on ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](//www.rlfans.com/images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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Went with my Uncle Tom, who was 6ft 4in - he saw most of the match.
Sadly I was somewhat shorter aged 16, so my abiding memory was of a constant bacward march
as the cinders slid forward, fortunately supported by my uncle.
Warrington won that day, but I wish I had seen more of it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_lG2XLSaY
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Went with my Uncle Tom, who was 6ft 4in - he saw most of the match.
Sadly I was somewhat shorter aged 16, so my abiding memory was of a constant bacward march
as the cinders slid forward, fortunately supported by my uncle.
Warrington won that day, but I wish I had seen more of it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_lG2XLSaY
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| Dont think they broke the "doors"
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| Quote ="DoubleAone"Dont think they broke the "doors"
most just walked in over the field at the back
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Not dissimilar to various ticketing schemes implemented by our neighbours ![Wink icon_wink.gif](//www.rlfans.com/images/smilies//icon_wink.gif)
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| Quote ="Bullseye"And thousands broke the doors open and got in.'"
The last time I was in the Coral with you you broke the door down to get out.
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| I blame bloody Sykes...
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