Enjoyed the Hive, good atmosphere in the main stand for only 1300 people.

As for the match it was far better than I expected when walking in, particularly when Drinkwater pulled out.

Krasniqi & Cook were superb and the two Leeds lads impressed me too. Wire's 2 tries at the start of the 2nd half were far too easy, that Ormsby must have beat 7 men to score.

I don't understand why we didn't put more high kicks to their blonde winger, he had one and dropped it then had nothing to do all game other than score three walk ins - I hate wingers who are bad but score alot due to their team.

Solomona looked okay on debut, far bigger than I expected

Absolutely no surprise that the team could only compete for 35 mins. Once a few interchanges were required, we had no big men to rotate. A dreadful bench, managed even more dreadfully. We ended as an absolute rabble.

Good points: Moore and Cunningham are very clever players; MCB is a talent; Solomona looked the part.

Bad points: Some exhausted forwards, esp. McMeeken who is completely out of gas; Farrar's distribution - hopefully it'll pick up!; the lack of threat from the likes of Minns, Atkins, JOC.

Several hundred more away fans there today than vs Salford and a bigger noise from the home fans. Very surprised at just 1377.

So is fitness the issue, rather than quality? Last years team were pathetically unfit, even for Aussie pensioners, so has anything changed?

Fitness could maybe be improved but we worked very hard for 50 mins. Line speed was good and due to the smaller bodies the "arm wrestle" must take more out of us than them

Yeah.......we have a nice new home and 1,000 less fans with a team that is off the bottom because of a points deduction.....oh, hang in. The last bit is familiar

I felt quality rather than fitness was the issue today. With Cook and Krasniqi in the middle unit, it was competitive. But without them, the Wire PTB got much, much quicker. McMeeken playing too many minutes on the left edge might be considered a fitness issue but I think it more of a case that his game time is being managed very badly. Again, take the two backs off the bench and replace them with Greenwood and Vea (in my hypothetical world) and our forwards might have looked stronger in the second half.

I agree, odd to have a centre in Macani and a utility back in Solomona on the bench. Anyone know anything about Drinkwater's injury? Bad?

It is nice actually.

Get some of the missing fans back and it will be rocking.

How are we going to get any if the missing fans back?

Gutters, you seem to be getting more & more curmudgeonised as the years pass. All you need is to sit in a stand and watch your team play just once year to really understand the peril.

You've got their addresses write to them & tell how great the Hive is.

Have to agree. Physically, they were a massive pack. I don't know why we didn't use our agility and pass the ball around to stretch them side to side or even go in low when we were 10 yards from their try line in the 2nd half like Danny Care done for England today

Is this now the worst for Wire in london?

Sorry, but after being told to "change the record" and to be "grateful that we even exist", what we are witnessing (either in person or via the radio/internet) is the total and utter destruction of what was, in 2008, a club with a chance of making professional RL work on the capital.

[list=[/listGlumfox is today's gathering another record low for Gus?

Previous low was knocked out of the park today.

It is...1,337 beating the previous 2,098 that attended the 2nd London v Wire game in the Capital in YK2.

3,453 is now the average for the visit of the Wire to London in SL.
3,638 was the average before Gus
2,620 is Gus's average.......he has managed to drop the average attendance by [size=20062%[/size

I think Wigan (2nd visit in 2007 recorded at 3,200) and Huddersfield (2nd visit in 2001 recorded at 1,800) are the only 2 current SL clubs that Gus doesn't hold records for........I suspect he could have the full set by the end of this year!

Cue posts about how ing wonderful the Hive will be if we can get 3k in

Hmm would not surprise me if we see sub 1k this year for a home game. A lot of wire fans at the game today.

62%. To date, that's how many fans Gus has trimmed from our 2010 average.

At AK's 20 quid a pop and based on 2010 attendances.....23k in lost ticketing revenue v Salford and 37,500 in lost ticketing revenue from Wire.15% of the 2014 home season gone and he's over 60k in a hole..........good job he's removed any semblance of responsibility from his Job description.

1,136 v Catalans last year is in real danger of being halved ....Thursday April 17th.....sub 1,000.

Cue more "but it's a tidy ground and if AK invests" type posts

Maybe Gus should have looked for an even smaller ground.

I met up with a group of Wire fans I've been friendly with since Carcassonne in 2002 post match. They felt London called it right in targeting Ormsby over Riley which surprised me but these guys watch the juniors etc at Wire and know their young lads games well.

2,583.....I remember the days when fans on here and at the club on match day would be ashamed of that number for a SL home game, but it seems it is now an acceptable number for TWO GAMES





Lose to Wakey next week and I suspect we will see more than just the Catalans game at sub 1k....AK will not invest a bean and regardless of what people say, it is 100% down to Gus and Hughes that this club will implode in the off season post relegation.

cue applause for the effort today (even though it was for 30 minutes)...

Agree but don't forget this is part go the building process. FFS.

Well, I thought we played well for a period, in fact the best this season AND in the 2nd half,

WIRE couldn't even manage a try every 5 minutes!!!!!!!!

As to being ashamed of the attendance??????? Actually theres sod-all I can do about that really, so no I'm not. Lmfao!

Positives from the game!
bishay! Looks good, new fella soloman looks pretty handy.
enthusiasm in first half good but experience is lacking.
bad things, crowd obviously
slow ptb resulted in very littke ground being made.
2 worst bits was 1 lack of effort to chase ball and make tackle after a charge down.
Getting caught on 6th tackle on our own 20
pretty low penalty count though
Oh yeah gutters coffee was good