I didnt realise you had banned me

So in the interest of ' debate ' explain how having a bigger financial prize for the Championship GF winners will increase attendances?

Not forgetting you wanting to discuss the ' matches ' only, and I havent seen many expressions of interest from SDL fans to suggest they will be attending any of the Championship play off matches

I never said it would, I said a bigger prize fund for the Grand Final would increase interest in the playoffs.

Why have you put ' debate ' and ' matches ' in quotation marks? It's really confusing. The only correct use would be if you were being ironicle, but you're clearly not.

It would increase interest among the players/owners, but I dont see how it would attract more fans, that is the question I was asking

I like quotation marks

You suggested you didnt want to discuss the ' politics '

on this thread, only the actual matches, I just pointed out there didnt seem much interest expressed by the SL fans your OP was aimed at

Basically jonny, they dont give a toss

I just struggle to read it sometimes when people put punctuation in sentences that isn't needed, it comes across with a message that shouldn't be there.

I know a Wakey fan was at the Fax game, but he's on the turn to becoming a Leyther.

I think SL fans do care, but it's so expensive to watch their own club, as well as a Championship club that they don't bother.

I'd like some of them to come on with an opinion though.

Still no explanation how a bigger financial prize would increase interest

It would make the competition more important to the clubs, therfore the fans.

Existing fans like you, perhaps

Potential new fans? Nah

In the current situation with no P&R if a club won promotion and had a big prize fund, they could and would use that money to build the fanbase for a SL application.

No they wouldnt, the bulk of it would go to the players/coaches as bonus, the rest would help to cover losses

I disagree, but can't see the point in a 'yes they would', 'no they wouldn't' arguement.

But the point of the thread is that the playoffs this year look uber competitive and exciting, no games can be predicted. I agree that it deserves more attendance and this is due to no P&R, but it's here for now and i'm going to enjoy it so i'm trying to tell people about how good it is.

Or I could just have a massive dummy spit and abandon my club.

So you want me to pay money to watch something I have lost interest in, something I am finding boring and uninspiring, in fact something that I find incredibly frustrating and annoying?

Look jonny, I am not going on the Leigh board because if I havent anything positive to contribute, then its better to keep my mouth shut

Heard the saying ' if you've nothing good to say about something , better to say nothing ' thats how I see it with regards Leigh

You still manage to mouth off about it see as you have 'lost interest in it' and 'find boring and uninspiring'.

That's proper use of quotation marks by the way.

And the moment you keep your mouth shut i'll show my &r5e ar the Turnpike, the only time i've heard you were quiet was when you got a dry slap.

So I've mentioned Leigh on here where?

Or am I not allowed to discuss the sport in general on other boards?

' A dry slap ' ? Please enlighten me more, I'm intrigued

You've mentioned Leigh on pretty much every post you've made on here.

And, in case you have forgot, Leigh play in the league you've lost inetest in, yet waffle on about it all the time.

And don't play dumb.

Or can you not help it?

Just checked jonny, no mention of Leigh, I did initially reply to littlerich , as he made a reference directly to me, I removed that when you suggested I was de railing the thread

And sorry, a ' dry slap ' ? No idea, enlighten me

So when you insult me, you accuse me of spitting out my dummy and abandoning my club, you dont expect me to give my side of my opinion?

I removed my posts out of respect, and to not de rail your thread, it was only when you felt the need to insult me, I mentioned Leigh again

You are losing the plot jonny

When did I insult you?

I said it's hard to read people's posts when they put quotation marks all over the place, and that you spat your dummy out, which you did.

So everybody that at some point used to watch Leigh and dont currently do so have ' spat out their dummies and abandoned their club '

You dont think of that as an insult?

Have you ever thought of working in marketing at Leigh ?

No, people in my family can't or don't go to games for varios reasons, but none of them have had a hissy fit, abandoned the club and become a laughing stock. That's not me insulting you that's you doing it to yourself. If I was insulting you i'd say 'Starbug is a ****' 'You are a ****' etc, which I havn't done.

I've actually put quite a few ideas to the club to John Roddy and Trevor Barton if you must know.

I can't dedicate too much of my time, but myself and another bloke, John Williams have started to get the Junior club back on it's feet, with a sponsor now, memberships up by over 300% on last season and now quite a lot of money in the bank.

So ' various reasons ' is ok, but bored and uninspired isnt? , that you conclude as a hissy fit and abandoning ?

Its good to see fans, especially passionte ones that care giving time and ideas to the club, why you feel the need to mention it right now I can only wonder at, I am not attacking the club here, so why do you feel the need to defend it ?

So jonny, you have de railed your own thread, I am happy to leave it there and let the Championship and SL fans discuss tge upcoming play offs, providing you dont keep insulting me

But they don't come on here preaching to everyone that's trying to enjoy the game.

Anyway, this has killed off most of my shift and really entertained me.

Who are classed as the Champion of the Championship, is it the league leaders or the play off winners?

In Championship 1 it is the league leaders this year who get crowned and get the big prize pot, but that's not usual...is it?

Oh looord this is hilarious.
Well done Jonny for advertising what a good product the championship is. It's a shame about the attendances but i'm not sure the move to Premier Sports was such a good one. I'm not privvy to the financial details but a lot of 'casual' speccies are now no longer watching championship games, depends on the financial burden/benefit.

I believe that the play-off winners are the champions.

Championship 1 is a weird one as the team who finished top got automatic promotion and didnt take part in the play-offs, hence only right they were crowned champions. I think this happened to Swinton last year. 2012 will be even weirder as there are 4 teams going up.