Dont fall into the trap of believing the small village myth, in reality Rovers pull from 3 towns not just 1 like you lot. Knottingley, Ponte and fev not to mention Ackworth and the surrounding villages. Thats why when there is a big game few can match us. It wont feel like a final it will feel like what it is a 2nd round game at leigh, after all a lot of us have seen us win the final at Wembley and more than once

You need to do your calculations again its definitely 1400.

We are ALL biased for our own team , ive spoken with many much worse than Gingdong , you want to spend a hour with Salfordlad

.Hes Leighs answer to Complan .

Of course, any reasonable person understands that Fev's catchment area is not limited to Fev itself.

However, given the proximity to Cas, Wakefield and even Leeds, I'd have to suggest that Fev are not the only team drawing support from the areas mentioned.

As a comparison, here is a list the population totals for the areas you mentioned:

Featherstone - 15,244
Pontefract - 28,250
Knottingley - 13,503
Ackworth - 6,493
Total : 63,490

Here are the figures that represent Leigh and the smaller towns and villages bordering the town and strongly associated with Leigh:

Leigh - 46,000
Tyldesley - 34,022
Atherton - 22,000
Lowton - 11,012 
Total: 102,022

Clearly, there are more places that could be included in either total.

What stands out to me is the % numbers of people in each catchment area that live in the place the team represents. These people are the most likely to have affinity with the club and become loyal, longterm fans. At Leigh, 45% of the catchment area is in the town. For Featherstone, it is 24% of a smaller total.

However, I don't think the town sizes and catchment areas are a particular problem for either club at the moment. It isn't necessary to attract 25,000+ to establish a team as a decent Super League team, given that most RL clubs are poorly run and are underachieving.

Very interesting FACTS there Michael .

Featherstone and Pontefract are virtually 1 and the same, if you live in Pont you support Rovers, the only people that support Cas are the non drinking social outcasts, you go to any of the Ponte amateur teams and they will have the token 1 or 2 Cas fans, they are probably more passionate about Rovers than Fev folk believe it or not in my experiences, you dont hear of hardly any Wakey fans at all this side of Fev. This is the reason Rovers have drawn a dozen crowds above there population a feat not many sporting clubs in the world can get near to matching. There are a lot of Cas fans in Knottingley as well as Fev but iv never known coaches go from Knottingley to Cas games but they do to most Rovers games. Rovers have a big area to pull from we are a big club that just happens to be in a small town

I won't dispute that Fev are attracting more fans than they probably should - but please define 'big club', because to my mind you've strayed in to nonsense.

P.S. In terms of population, Featherstone + pontefract < Leigh

Depends how you define a big club, you may think its nonsense but the words i used are the exact words the Rovers board use for destination super league propaganda purposes. I define a big club through history (we have that) facilities and future prospects. We own 18 acres of land near the ground, land that will be changing from green belt as hundreds of houses are to be built very near there, this gives us superb future prospects if managed right. We can certainly compete for crowds if in the top flight as have done before, we also have a very wealthy shareholder. Put it another way i would rather be in our position than some so called big clubs currently in super league

It doesn’t matter where they're from, just get them down to the game, hopefully they’ll enjoy it and turn up again the following weeks and years. And that applies to either/all clubs.



So we are currently getting under 2% of our catchment area, you wouldn't think 10% would be too great of an ask, but at 2% it shows how far we have to go.

So what is the answer ?

It does, which why I asked you to define it.



Come on, we can't just repeat the stuff our clubs tell us. Experience suggests that we'd all be looking massively foolish on a regular basis.



Fev as a club have existed for a while? I can think of many other clubs that have history. Hell, even the Fuldon Bronquins have history.



Your facilities are currently adequate but improving, and quite frankly 'future prospects' can be put in the same folder as Cas, Wakey & Bradford stadium proposals. Show me the reality. Wikipedia suggests you've had stadium proposals on the table, in one form or another, since 2008.



If it happens, if it is 'managed right'. If's...

When it happens, I'd be keen to accept your argument and Fev



Past performance is not an indicator of future performance, plus your last top flight season was 19 years. That's a long time.



We had one of those. Doesn't last...

If this is the probiz guy you're talking about (not sure) then you've got to ask if it's the land and development opportunities attracting him - there's money to be made from that development. I hope it all goes in to the Fev coffers, but I'm not 100% sure it will.



I think any ambitious club, run well, can achieve better than probably half of SL because they're run poorly. It's endemic in this sport.

Fev are doing things right, but right now the 'big club' tag is bluster.

I wish I knew

I think the answer is 42.

Only a Hitchhiker would know that

what was the question

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"


Six by Nine, Fourty Two

To get more then 2% of the towns population down watching the team that's unbeaten 9 games into the season there's just two teams ones us the others is Saints!!!!

That big meat raffle they have somewhere in pontefract that always seems to clash with thursday night play off games needs sorting, because it attracts half the usual matchday fev support.

I'd be really annoyed if half our fans dissappeared at the business end of the season.

If 42 is the answer, the question must be what is the answer to Life The Universe and Everything Else
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cheers, clear as mud

Its simple , as Ronnie Kray used to say "Look after the ones that love you ".

"Today must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

Spent a bit of time in Frank's company, and like most people he's a good lad to know. And contrary to what other people will tell you he’s a very generous sort, he even offered me some of his red wine once (though I think he just wanted someone to get rid of the bottle).

Surely not, if there was money back on the empty?

(He's on a fixed income, you know)

Have they sold more than 999 tickets yet?