any games played today, anything postponed due to weather

doncaster drew 16 all with a youthful hull fc side (only 3 players who could be considered 1st team regulars turned out). good crowd though - about 1700, and an impressive queue outside the ticket office beforehand

Featherstone by common consent comprehensively outplayed Wakefield in a meaningless warm-up game/further piece of evidence that Fev are well up to making a mark in SL (delete as applicable depending on whether you're a Wildcats or Rovers fan).

First 20 seconds of that game available here...don't arrive late at the Bigfellas Stadium! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWc1gmtc ... e=youtu.be

First 20 seconds of that game available here...don't arrive late at the Bigfellas Stadium! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWc1gmtc ... e=youtu.be

Fairly poor attendance though.

over 2.5k for a friendly in freezing conditions in January?

against a well supported SL club based about 5 miles down the road?

I see you're a London fan. Given you managed less than half that number for a Challenge Cup game against Fev despite the visitors bringing several hundred fans, I'm not sure why you think a 2.5k home gate for a Championship team in a January friendly is so disappointing.

He may be a London fan but he is 100% correct. If Fev have ambitions to be in SL then their supporters need to show they have the appetite for supporting them in SL. Turning up to see their team play against SL opposition would be a good start.

We're the worst run club in SL, why would you want to compare yourselves to us? Fev people are constantly banging the drum about how they're ready for SL. I don't see it. That has nothing to do with the shower of a club that I support.

Fev deserve a shot at Super League, the only area that they really fail on is attendances, so what.

I'm a Halifax fan by the way.

And how can you sustain the club in SL with 2k home gates without a very wealthy benefactor? Hull KR struggle with 8k crowds.

Featherstone's gates have been edging steadily upwards over the last couple of years, especially in those games where there is clearly something to play for. It's precisely the fact that there has been no upwards path for the better Championship teams in recent seasons that has led to even the better teams in the division struggling for support; there are plenty of current SL teams (not just London) who would be struggling for crowds if they found themselves in the Championship with no short-term prospect of making it back to SL.

We compare ourselves to you because you are allowed to continue in SL and we (and other potential aspirants from the Championship) haven't been. And we compare ourselves to you because attendances are the rod used to beat us with, yet London are allowed to continue in a ground that can't actually hold a decent crowd, whereas Featherstone have made a concerted effort, including significant contributions from volunteer supporters, to improve our ground in line with supposed SL standards.

I agree, but I suspect they'll 'do a Leigh'.

Well if you compare yourselves to a club with no fans/sponsors that nearly goes bust every few years you aren't much good to SL. You need to prove you are able to add something to the comp, not just be better than the worst club in the league.

What would you deem a good crowd for that friendly Tre Cool?

Increasing crowds, and extremely solid and passionate away support. Own our own ground and land around it. Two new stands built largely by volunteers. Shiny new Centre Of Excellence with state-of-the-art training facilities. Award-winning Foundation doing tremendous work in the local community. Significant financial backers. Extremely consistent on-field performances (table-toppers four years running). I think we tick a few boxes there.

Leeds got about 9k against Wakefield.

So you think that's what the crowd should be for Featherstone and Wakefield?

If you want to add something to SL then your average attendance should at very least be 8000, probably more like 10k. A local derby friendly should bring half that, so 4-5k.

I think if you are demanding a place at the big-boys table, you should be compared against the big boys. Fev got what a quarter of what Leeds got. If that carried on to League attendances Fev would be in trouble.

Bit harsh on fev Leeds did play against a Wakefield first team and over 2500 fans is pretty good against a youth team I actually think 9000 is pretty poor effort for a derby friendly there will be about 14000 for the Hull derby friendly

There was only about 8k there last year so I doubt it.

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that was Wakefields 17, (not least because there were 7 Subs) and the Leeds side was Jones-Bishop, L Briscoe, Minns, Moon, Handley, Sutcliffe, Hardaker, Achurch, Aiton, Clarkson,Delaney, Foster, Minchella. Subs : R Ward, Milton, White, Walters, Grange.

Which is just about as 2nd string as they could get, 3 of them have already been sent out on loan for the season.

Fev wouldn't bring anything to Super League, infact they don't bring anything to game. May aswell give it up as a bad job.