This should cut the entrance fee down to Rhinos home games as well. In this recession I just don’t think its sustainable to have four players on the bench. The attendances have declined thanks to the RFL and Hetherington penny pinching as much as possible out of the fans.

Give something back to the fans by making it cheaper please. We want just two substitutes on the subs bench and £15 entrance fees!

Did you run out of medication this morning?

Damo nothing personal but FFS STFU you nugget!!!

Money to get medication yes!

But still that’s not the point do you think its too expensive to have a 17 man game?

just.......just STFU, for the love of god!

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I have heard some daft Damo ideas but this one has to be up there with the best!

Haha, I think 4 subs are needed in such a physical sport like this.

Personally I think eight would be the best number.

But in this financial climate we are kidding ourselves with even four players on the subs bench. If the crowd goes down then so should the number of substitutes on the bench.

Teams like Celtic/Quins and Salford better be careful, when they run out of subs to get rid of do they have to get rid of starting players??

If it was my choice Celtic, Harlequins and Salford would just play in the floodlight 9s competition every year. Then when we’ve got enough interest in them three clubs we can push them to play in the The Co-operative Championship 1 competition.

The money that’s going into these three clubs that not many care about would be better going towards dog charities. A lot of dogs are getting neglected in this recession.

We should be saving dogs not rugby league clubs!

Stop tampering with em then!!!

This bit is genius but you haven't gone far enough for me.

Leeds have the biggest attendances so they get to field 17 players each week, everyone else gets as many players as their percentage of the Leeds average allows.

Wigan get 12, St Helens maybe get 10, Bradford 9 and someone like Harlequins about 3.

Those games I'd pay good money to watch.

This suggestion is almost as good as having the play-offs in mid season.

Come on Teev old boy don't give him ideas!!!!


He'll be emailing Red Hall with em!!!

Unfortunately my brain doesn't work at those kind of limits, that was an actual Damo suggestion from earlier in the season (if not on this board it must have been on the virtual terrace - that I occassionally look at at quiet times in here.)

I love 'our' Damo, every club should have one.

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I'm good at starting ideas but not expanding!

What about a club like the Bulls then,how would the loss of their thousands of lets"jump on the band waggon"fans affect their match day squad Damo?
Would they have to play with only 7 players each week?icon_lol.gif

It could be worse Damo lad you could be a Leigh fan

You make it personal by your response which is uncalled for, unless of course you feel Damo is not entitled to a opinion?

Well why not?

Pubs get closed up and down the country because people don’t attend. Same should be applied to rugby league clubs. There’s one thing this all makes - financial sense!