agreed, our crowds are crap. We have a new ground yes, but are worst team for about 15 years. Fax are top of the table, playing great rugby, and your average will be 'boosted by 2 Widnes home games'.

Fax's last 3 home crowds: 2, 022 + 2,002 + 2,184
Leigh's last 3 home crowds 2,307, 2.177 + 1,727

point taken, but both should be getting bigger crowds, albeit for different reasons. Widnes's crowds puts us all to shame.

i know there is no guarentee we will get to the northern rail cup final or win it or the league grand final but i think with the squad we have got we will get to one of them over the next 2 years.

i dont know why we are complaning anyway even if we win both of them for the next 2 years we wont get in. we will broaden the game out to france a bit more to toulouse and gateshead widnes and leigh will be the others fighting for the place.

sad, but true.
2012) Widnes or Toulouse 2015) Widnes/Toulouse/Ipswich Jets
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I have it on good authority that the Glasgow Gluesniffers are certs for 2015.

Quote ="Leyth-lad"just seen this on bbc sport news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 027116.stm =redRugby League chiefs are being urged to =redchange their rules to allow Halifax into the Super League next season.'" RL chiefs.... change their rules? No precedent for that!!

Quote ="Leyth-lad"just seen this on bbc sport news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 027116.stm =redRugby League chiefs are being urged to =redchange their rules to allow Halifax into the Super League next season.'" RL chiefs.... change their rules? No precedent for that!!

Said it before......Gateshead will be the next franchise team as they will want to expand into the north-east.

If you look at the average crowds in the Premiership then compare them to the ones in the Championship,I think the Crowds above when compared with SL will be similar ratios.

Based on todays prices and the competition for everyones money I don't think crowds of 2000 plus are crap, not brilliant but definately not crap.

But its as good as you'll get for a competition that is not really taking off in the imagination of many as "worth winning in its own right".
I'm seriously struggling to give a monkeys about many of this seasons games so god knows how the casual fan will get attracted.

Bizarrely cannot wait to see if AFC Fylde football club will get promoted out of (circa) Division 9 this season and will be one of many on the ground for the (hopefully) promotion decider game v New Mills, I'd also guarentee I and many otherswouldn't be there if the club had no chance of progression.
I suspect thats the problem championship clubs will have to try and battle to survive.

Yes. Same policy as they have with their constituents.

Why Fax? Why not Widnes (who have been royally screwed all round??) And, of course, why not us?

Just for once, Andy Burnham's position won't help Leigh... as the Secretary of State, it would be improper for him to write a motion appealing against the ruling of a sport's NGB. But, given those circumstances, if we find the names of the MPs on the motion, we should write to them asking to add Leyth onto the list, and copy the letter to andy acknowledging his unfortunate conflict of interest in the matter.

its nothing to do with halifax rlfc www.therfl.co.uk/championship/ne ... p?id=13908

its nothing to do with halifax rlfc www.therfl.co.uk/championship/ne ... p?id=13908

Quote ="seanfax"its nothing to do with halifax rlfc www.therfl.co.uk/championship/ne ... p?id=13908'" ..which is a much more politic response to franchising than some other clubs' officials made

Quote ="seanfax"its nothing to do with halifax rlfc www.therfl.co.uk/championship/ne ... p?id=13908'" ..which is a much more politic response to franchising than some other clubs' officials made

Even though its what all of us were thinking at the time? you or the majority didn't know what went on behind the scenes on the lead up to that farce of a SL application fiasco, i'm only sorry the club can't/won't reveal the whole sorry tale and show up te RFL for what it really is?
theres a time for politics and a time for saying how it is, all this political correct bollox is just bull, even the widnes chairman said the same thing on boots n all as Rowley did, but was he crucufied by their teams fans? was he blood hell, if Rowley had crawled would we now be in SL? I think not so did it do any harm? only in the petty minds of some on here.

It's rugby not politics leave that to the politicians, me I prefer straight talking, not going all round the houses to call a spade a spade.

Half our problem is that we're in spitting distance of Leeds/ Bradford and Huddersfield which is where most of the support went when we got relegated.

Course its different where we are there,s only Saints and Warrington oh and perhaps Salford.

and Wigan, thats where a lot of the turncoats went

OOPS did I forget to include that lot?

..and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we're not in Superleague.

I rest my case, your honour.

I can't understand folk swapping their support for other clubs but can't say I have come across any. There are many who's next generation went elsewhere because the one before stopped, but thats different.

Giving up and losing interest is one thing but anyone who gives up on their club and then chooses another is nowt but a 5hithouse in my opinion, and I dont want them stood next to me anyway.



If Leigh packed up I'd have to get my kick from East or Miners becuase I'd sooner let the wife drag me round the Trafford Centre for the afternoon than support another club.

And apparently Scotland is 'crying out for a Super League team'. Now who saw that one coming...

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jesus one local mp who knows little about RL wants Fax in SL and you all think its the clubs fault. Nothing to do with us and a bit embarrasing tbh

Course it is you are a devious bunch living on the wrong side of England,s natural barrier.

Salford, makes Harrow on the Hill look like a shanty town

Do we?

Bit of a broad statement is that.