Read my last post.

When the chips were REALLY down there was a hardcore support of 300, not the 3000 that were there last night.

Ah yes the Keighley 32 all draw of 1986 when 303 supporters turned up.So you are saying for a club that finished 4th in Super League in the modern era with massive advances in marketing, media coverage and facilities anything over a crowd over 300 is a bonus?.

No

Im saying that to complain for a section of our fans for not turning up is beneath my contempt.

Section (half).

Fine no worries then.

Edited for correctness (and to stop you getting a sulk on!!

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A steward - manager at the ground told me there was 4,124 fans at the Leeds end of the pitch, including the rest of the leeds fans down the sides this would suggest around 4,500 Leeds fans turned up.

in the 80s i was stood with austin(flying prop) supporting the team i love and i know for a fact both of us have introduced a lot of friends and family into becoming giants fans, but it still doesnt make fridays attendance any less pathetic every reason i have heard for not going are valid, but it doesnt stop me been any less fed up with yet another poor crowd when we have to actually pay on the gate.

Why, exactly, or even vaguely, should people go and spend hard earned money, sometimes quite a lot of money, to watch a team that has by all measures been utterly awful in the last 2-3 months?

Why should they give up their Friday nights to watch a team, that 7 days earlier got utterly, completely and comprehensively smashed out of the park?

If you cant understand why people might choose to stay at home and watch the game on Sky then I really dont know quite what you expect from people.

Ask the Wildcats fans the same question. They managed to get 6,428 through the gates for a game against Crusaders having had 40 points put on them for the 5 weeks previous.

Cos it was one game you might win, and you didn't think you'd have too many more games in Super League after that...

Impossible given that stand holds 4,054 and there was netting on the front plus a fair few seats dotted around! Granted you came in numbers but not to that extent!

Why, exactly, or even vaguely, should people go and spend hard earned money, sometimes quite a lot of money, to watch a team that has by all measures been utterly awful in the last 2-3 months?

Why should they give up their Friday nights to watch a team, that 7 days earlier got utterly, completely and comprehensively smashed out of the park?

If you cant understand why people might choose to stay at home and watch the game on Sky then I really dont know quite what you expect from people.

why not go watch wire and wigan then if you will only pay to see winning teams ?

i cant believe people are trying to make the excuse that a few bad months where we havent had the best results, played away at wigan, saints and warrington twice. with having alot of injuries to key players. means that fans cant show up to one big game which could have put us 80 mins away from OT.

if fans will only go to games when where winning why support the team at all why not go and support wigan or warrington then they wont see a few bad months and can be happy. fair enough we dont have the biggest support the crowd on friday was beyond a joke.

i have sympathy for the fans that had a genuine reason for not going but its very dissapointing.

and people saying having a go at our fans doesnt help anything well neither does not saying owt. we have been on tv alot of times this season but we have had bigger crowds.

I notice Wigan only got 6790 for the game against Catalan. I know they would have all been Wigan fans. But they did finish second in the league and won the Challenge cup.
Most of the crowds for the play-offs have been the very low, so there is no point in having a go at the Giants support as all other clubs involved have suffered the same apathy.

Numbers relates to quantity, I'm talking about quality

I suspect quite a number weren't even born

i was there too ...sweeping the terraces, ballboying, programme selling, turnstile operator.....in fact anything they didnt have anyone else there to do !

thats called being a bandwagon/fairweather supporter.
if people aren't interested or willing to watch ( i wont use the term support) that has poor spells on the field and in general then i suggest they stop calling themselves supporters.
we as a club have battled against these kind of people for years, im sure they would be rather support a team that wins regularly, im sure we will see a few "giants fans" defecting soon if thats the case.
im sorry but as you and i,and others on here are well aware due to being there in the bad times,you support your club through thick and thin,good and bad, true,loyal supporters dont stay at home and watch on tv because the team lost the week before.

Good post.

I call myself an idiot for turning up week in week out after the indifferent season we've had!

So you would be happy if we have 5000 who come to games as long as they were all "proper" supporters.


Personnally i would settle with 10,000 glory hunters and bandwaggonners and i am sure that Ken Day and Richard Thewlis would as well.

Stop being so precious about wearing campaign medals about how we were around in the dark days. The club needs money through the door now, whether that is casual supporters or diehards matters not one iota.

Spot on. All welcome bandwagon or not. you can't have it both ways.

Why don't the uber loyal supporters call themselves Ultras or Brigantes or something , make a few flags and consider themselves better fans than everyone else....oh no that's a different team.

Before anyone else has a go at Giants fans consider this scenario

You play your best Rugby ever for 3 or 4 decades.

At home you score 50 or 60 points in over half of your games in a season.

You play scintillating RL all season and score over 1000 points in a season.

You win your first league title for 40 odd years and you are having the trophy presented at home in front of the cameras after a game you look like comfortably winning.

You get an attendance of 10,000.

If that had happened to the Giants we would have got well over 10,000 to the game.

Im not sure ken and thewlis would be happy with Casual support - they want / need folk to give their money at the start of the season and every season so they can plan the team finances and know how much they can spend on recruitment, players arent given one year contracts the club need to know the money will be there to pay 3,4,5 yr contracts. Compare those fickle giants fans who stay away when we lose to those Wigan fans who turned up in numbers to support their team when threatened with relegation- yes we know they cheated but I reckon those fans had a big influence over the team staying in sl. If the tables were turned we'd be lucky to get 2000 turn up, and twisting the rules would not help us stay up.

You mean like this scenario- play your best rugby for decades, nil several teams, have one of the best defences in the league- get to your first challenge cup final at wembley for decades- and get slated for a pitiful crowd that was quite frankly embarrassing.