think us and fax only have to win one each to guarantee semi final spots.

Apparently not.

So it could all be sewn up for us in week one then? This is going to be a long month!

Sorry No interest in this coconut fight, we all turned up in numbers to see our team play week in and week out. In some games they stayed on the bus so i am staying at home, SF can sit by himself with the Tealady but i expect she has more taste than that.

...AND she can turn over a new leaf!.....unlike some.

And what are you basing that on?

Welcome to the world of Championship RL as it was with licencing , how you feel about your next 8/9 matches is how myself and many others felt for 6 seasons

Great Innit

indeed.....
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Not here to rub anything in, just to try and compare what might happen on attendees based on what happened to us (London) last year when we failed to make the qualifiers. In the normal season we had about 700 average (apart from when we played you and Leigh), in the final 4 home games in the shield, the average dropped down to about 350ish (so about half).

Part of that is due to the meaningless fixtures (ie you have already qualified for the playoff fixtures), and the lure of playing Swinton, Oldham at home it not the same as playing Leeds and Hudds.

We also saw some of our players really went off the boil in some of the games (the home loss to Hunslet was the most dire London game I saw, and I have seen a lot of dire London performances over the years). However that game was the bottom, and since then we seem to have improved and kicked on.

Just grit your teeth over the next 2 months, make sure you win the teapot cup for pride more than anything else. You'll be back in the qualifiers next year.

That won't happen with us. Our players have been e all year.

Indeed. We've never really been 'on' the boil in the first place...

I can't see anyway of not been part time in 2017 unless someone comes in with £500k donation.

Maybe part time would not be so bad. The players might want to earn their pay a bit more then instead of turning up for a little bit of training now and again and then off to Costa for the rest of the day.

They might want to play to earn a bit of a bonus if they were part time.

It probably shows just how serious the club are taking it with the headline on the official website for yesterday's result.

BULLS END SEASON WITH LOSS

Even the club know the season is over, regardless of these other trumped up friendlies.

TBF that's only because we had to let the tea lady go, and it was her kettle

I think the reason she's gone is that she was informed that as well as using her own kettle she had to fork out for the leccy as well.

Announcement expected today in relation to dates and times for our remaining games.

Being released on website and social media at 10:30am. I might look, I might not. I can't say I'm that bothered.

Last year Broncos were in the same boat, massively under performed and fell below expectations, 'qualified' for the Shield, needed a 2 pts from 7 games to secure a semi spot - waste of time, nothing motivating for fans or players alike, losing unexpectedly to minnows as the players weren't there, our small fan base decreased further.

Have faith, we turned it around, and hopefully you will.

The final is a bit of a giggle if you get there.....
A day out and it pots a few quid for your club if you win

Are the winners serenaded with 'We are the champions' and 'Simply the Best' blasting out of the PA system ?

On the same basis as the cup winners seem to get, "cup champions", I can't see anything wrong with "shield champions", or maybe just "chumps" for short?

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts".

Attendance of home games for me will happen. They're included in the season ticket, so I will take full advantage of that. I'll even do my usual matchday spending.

Away games, I can't justify the money on. Certainly not spending all that money on two trips to Cumbria.

If we were to get to the Semi Final and Final, it will all depend on ticket prices and venues. Quite frankly, these games are glorified friendlies and I can't justify paying more than trial game prices for them.

I, like I'm sure many fans, am looking at this season as being done and dusted and am already looking towards 2017 now. If my attendance is wanted at these unimportant matches, the price needs to reflect how pointless they are.

I'll be honest. I love Rugby League. I will be at the majority of the games. I will be thoroughly entertained, even if it is makes grim watching. Hopefully if the away turnouts are low there'll be less of this singing nonsense and I'll be able to watch RL in silence as is tradition at Odsal. Interspersed with occasional shouts of 'forward!' and 'rip his spleen out!'.