Yes i am a real fan and proud off it too, its like taking 1 step forward and 9 steps back with some off you lot on here, can you not see 6000 fans for a top team is Rubbish and the first thing you do is defend the fans for not turning up. I am also a dedicated town fan so i see things differently to most giants fans, football fans are very critical when fams do not turn up to games SO am i, just because you dont turn up for what ever reason does not mean you can defend the thousands who dont do. If you cant see that then our fan base will never grow and we will continually get comments from other teams supporters regarding our fan base. Im sorry but in my opinion if you wernt there you have not say on what i think. Go to the games then i will have the time for you. I know a fan on here lives in portugal and comes to as many as he can, which i think is great, but if you live in Huddersfield and dont have kids (which is a rubbish excuse) then your excuse sucks.

It is only in the last 5 to 6 years that the Giants have started to build a fan base. Previously it was very difficult as we were languishing at the foot of the table, and nobody wants to be associated with a mostly losing side.
To be fair we have done very well in a short space of time. Take St.Helens for instance, their home crowds are not much better than ours and they have been a very successful for many years.
And don`t Town have reduced gates on midweek games compared to Saturday/Sunday games.???

Theres no public transport between Toronto and Huddersfield, is my excuse ok sir? I haven't been to a game in 5 years, so I guess that doesn't make me a real fan, eh?

Not everyone has to attend games, it doesn't make them any less fans. Sometimes real life takes a front seat to rugby, and people have other priorities and prior engagements that theyw ould much rather do. Again, this doesn't make them any less of a Huddersfield fan than it does you or me.

I remember going to games where we would get 2500 on a sunday, so to now be getting over 6000 on a tuesday night is fantastic

Seriously?

Define a real fan for me 1st before i reply to that load of old bollox

Yes, 6000 for a top team is rubbish ......how about we wait to see what our crowds are after we've won a trophy before we start comparing our crowds to 'top teams' .....i dont know if you can remember what Bradford, Warrington, Leeds crowds etc were before they won trophies but i can tell you they werent anywhere near as good as what they are now !!
Success brings fans .....simple, we haven't had any success of note since the early 60's so the fans that are new to the club have been attracted by other means rather than success.
To go from 3-4000 average crowds to nearly 9,000 in 6 or 7 years on the back of winning nothing is excellent stuff - yes we have had 2 cup final appearances in that time which will have brought a few fans, imagine if we had won 1 or even both of them what our crowds will be.
all the current top supported clubs have one thing in common that we dont - SILVERWARE and until we get we wont see a sudden huge rise in our gates.
10,000 new people are not suddenly going to start coming to the games because they pick a paper up and see the league table.
And the people that are currently fans do not need to justify missing the odd game when they have been here for a few years now.!

BTW Eaton , are you off to Catalans this weekend?

once again lastnights crowd was ok!!!

the season ticket holders turned up (we have around 5000) so dont see how we could expect 8000 for this game

if it dropped below 5000 then we could moan but it didnt



eaton has some fair comments though

Dont get me wrong i do agree with him and it frustrates me as much as anyone how we cant attract bigger crowds...but at the end of the day moaning will not improve them, like i said silverware will improve the crowds.

I knew that would have a few comments back. You all know my opinion now, if you dont agree with me thats fine we all support the team. But that is where i stand

yes i am going setting off tomorrow are you?

yes, going out friday...were having a meet up at bar LeSource on friday for the Leeds game if you wanted to join us

Where staying in Spain Laret de mar? If not i would do, cheers for the offer though.

You're obviously a young man Eaton. A bit of life experience is likely to mellow your views a bit. A game of Rugby League is just that;[i a game[/i. Strange as it may seem to you right now, there are more important things in life.

This ^

ok, we will probably all congregate in the bar behind le castillet before the game then !

la Poste

Yes Le grande cafe a la poste is the one !!

Dont think i missed a game at 18 with no outlays



Come back in 20 years or so

Me either !!

I'm a season ticket holder who lives in west London and missed yesterday as I was back to work. Travelled 200 miles for Leeds away and to crusaders and because of the ridiculous wedding can make Perpignan on Friday, but have 200 miles to travel on Thursday night. That's maybe why the crowd was down. We don't all live in Hudds!

or me missing my first on saturday at catalans and at batley next week cos going on my hols is that ok , thought eaton may have gone to brighton to watch town as well.

main point to me is , yes it wasnt a great crowd 6k on a tuesday night , but compared to matches on tuesdays nights in the recent past it is very encouraging, as daz says it will take us winning a trophy for the crowds to progress massively further, town do suffer the same problem midweek as their crowds also drop to around the 9k mark

I think Eaton should come back once his balls have dropped.

Your attitude towards other fans sucks. You need to take a step back because if you are apart of this new giants committee your certainly not going to attract new members including myself.

well who needs troll when our own fans have a constant dig!
no point preaching on here we all go to the games, sell it to the ones who dont!

Yeah when I was 18 I never missed a game, and we were in the 3rd division then too, not the heady heights of superleague.

I'd have dreamed of summer weakends in the south of France, all I got were blizzards in Batley...

and cancellations in Carlisle !!