...thats played 3 lost 3. And for their first ever SL home game a crowd of "around 5000". Wow!

You lot are seriously obsessed, just let it go, im pretty sure you lot got the same crowd on your super league bow against Salford?

Yeah I heard the comments about the crowd on Sky, you'd have thought they'd had 50,000 the way they were going on about it.
5,000 for a FIRST SL HOME GAME is nowt to shout about and lets see how many they have at the end of the season!

You are also obsessed love.

For what it's worth, I think 5,000+ is a very respectable start indeed.

And yet you're the one who spends so much time trawling this site - mmm let me think!!

Now now dont get your knickers in a twist, you know im right in what i say.

See the Leyther Matt post, he isnt obsessed.

Don't drag me in to it, WantstobeaLeytherMon

My knickers are definitely without twist Vikingman - and it's good be obsessed about something - you never know I might become obsessed with you!!

Matt that's the quote of the day.

must have been a lot of 'free' tickets or Hull fans.
as for Vikingman's comments, he usually talks sense. Celtic do NOT deserve to be in Super League. You should know that better than anyone.

But they are so why keep going on about them?


They also currently get bigger crowds than you and us.


We do however have better grounds.

Finding someone to use the free tickets is going to be tough enough for them this year.

... and 'better looking' fans !!!

Well done to the welsh for 5000+ crowd bigger than ours.

Their opening results make me fear for them, though... if this is their best shot, early doors, then what happens in a couple of months when they have a few injuries and other teams hot their straps?

It could be that they click and it's ok. But at this point it reminds me too much of our season in SL. 5,000 is a decent crowd, but if they keep losing, how many will keep watching? I know a lot of SL club fans will make a trip to South Wales this time around, but again, once the novelty's worn off it will be below Catalans, London and Edinburgh in the pecking order...

...we'll see. I hope it works. But were I at RLHQ, at this point I'd be concerned.

Whilst it would be better had they started with a home win I was surprised at that attendance to be honest.

It,s all very well however for LeighLeigh to crow about it being a bigger attendance than our opening Superleague(as it then was) fixture but I would remind him that game would not have been played had it not been televised. I bet I wasn,t the only one who thought they had hypothermia that night.

There,s another thing which "expansionists" overlook and that is despite us getting tonked week in and week out we still took lots of supporters to away games.

I understand that CC were sent 100 tickets for their opening game at Salford and returned 96 of them.

Regular viewers of this site willl know I think franchising will fail but if CC don,t finish bottom in Non Relegation League then despite my views of their fast tracking. Then good luck to them.

Southend, Carisle, and Mansfield next?

well why not they have wasted money there as well before and only once in the first two's instance not umpteen times like in Wales.

Of course official ttendance figures could never be manipulated one way or another could they????

I mean it never happened at Hilton Park did it????

Well I for one hope they lose every game, crowds drop off to below 2000 and it all goes t!ts up and they go bust. They don't deserve to be in SL, they know it, we know it and Richard Lewis knows it. The sooner they fail the sooner we can call for his resignation.

He is, always on this site that lad

....Nottingham, Scarborough, Blackpool, Chorley, Trafford Borough, Paris...

...Gateshead abandoned by the RFL, saved by the local supporters.... Sheffield likewise.... Keighley cheated out of their deserved promotion... ...Hemel Hempstead never given the support they deserved despite funding their own development officer as long ago as 1989...

...the London team based in Fulham.. no, Chiswick... no, Crystal Palace... no, Barnet... no, Brentford... no, Charlton... no, Brentford... no, Twickenham...

...and that's only the last two decades...

Still, at least the national side is improving..... oh, hang on.... but wait, this is all Dickie Lewis' masterplan.... we've seen this before...???

...I remember now! What happened to the tennis under the great Dick himself!!!! So, we'll only get rid of that Dick when... GB lose to Ecuador!!!!


You read it here first.

frank, hope you have tongue in cheek regarding the highlighted. If we get cr@p attendances I will say so, and doesn't make me any less of a supporter than the ones that made excuses for our crowds during SL2005. I was at every game bar 2 (home and away), so I know how the crowds went also.




Yes it was damn cold at HP that night but I watched rmi season before last a night game (forget who against

) but it was just as cold then - and they never used this excuse for small crowd


What annoys me on this board is constant negativity towards certain clubs, RFL and Lewis etc when its all history now. The 2 best teams from last season went up anyway. Lets just let it go, and concentrate on our own club.

Come on Fred, you have posted similar b4. Name 1 failed Welsh club bankrolled by rfl in the summer era.