And a lot of the away fans chose to turn back and stay at home instead?

At times I thought that we were playing Bradford at home given the level of support in the North stand.

Or is it indicative of the economic climate and the last remaining mines are being closed down over t'hill?

Indeed, Leeds is known of its mining, there is plenty of mines in Leeds and has been for a long long time.

Definitely not legal, financial, and services industries. Its the mining where most people in Leeds work.

Stick them in the West Stand next season, make them pay £22.

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Am so sorry to hear that. We'll send over a food parcel and some ricketts cream.

Shocking.

Terrible support. Rhinos in decline.

satellite army

I thought it was more of a platoon than an army

Not the best away support, but Leeds isn't really known for mining (Wigan has on occasion been referred to as 'Coalopolis'). Not sure where the mining reference has come from.

3 minutes for a bite - you're losing your touch.

Only cars with colours I saw tonight were Hull ones.

Dont forget the sheep farms. Large numbers of us are involved in sheep farming too.

Leeds is more well known for Marks & Spencers. Or at least one of them, who could not speak a word of English.

Looks like they've some serious issues over on the Southstander match report:
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On twenty-five Sam Tomkins prevented a Leeds try by tackling close from not square. Leeds got the penalty but incredibly Halibut failed to show the Wigan cheat a yellow card for a professional foul.

Leaving Sam Tomkins on the field after his professional foul in the first half was refereeing cowardice.

On thirty-two a cross field kick from Finch which seemed to be knocked-on by Richards before being collected by Hoffman who walked over the line to score.
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Really think Bilko should change his reporting style to emulate this.

In regards to that tackle, yes Sam gave away a penalty but it could have equally gone the other way for moving off the mark. How on earth was Sam expected to get back to the play the ball when the player had moved so far forward while quickly playing the ball?

Did pretty well though , considering he couldn't speak a word of english !

It was a professional foul and he should have had 10 minutes in the bin to ponder his actions, but with the Halibut you never know which way he is going to call it.

I noted stompkins was up to his usual when he milked the penalty by rolling back over on Buderus

and his girly kick to touch at the very end of the match when his manager was screaming for the 2 points.

Perhaps he knew that retribution was only 10 yards away. Ah well, yesterday's news....roll on the next time!

The book of irony, sarcasm and caustic humour.

that wasn't written by Stevo was it

The awful level of travelling support is just part of a wider problem in the game. Aside from a very small number of clubs who do have a good away following (to be fair, Warrington and Saints are amongst them) the level of away support in RL is poor and if anything seems to be declining.

Back to Leeds specifically though, their travelling support is an embarrassment to a club whose fans laughably claim it is the biggest in the game. I was at Sheffield Eagles v Leigh a few weeks ago and Leigh brought more fans to that game than Leeds did last night. It was an astonishingly poor turnout.

Awful support from Leeds. A plastic little club with woeful support. That was Crusaders-esque support last night from them men.

They are about to fall into that category of clubs who we don't bother to open the North Stand for (Catalans, Quins & Crusaders)

Match report posted last night, doubt that Southstander.com made the trip.

The m62 west-bound was one long traffic jam from Leeds to past Manchester yesterday around 5 o'clock. If you choose to play on a Friday evening do not expect large away followings to come from the other side of the Pennines, especially when the game is on tv.

Yet more Wigan fans, and Wire fans would have made the opposite journey at the same time and with the game on TV. We have all been stuck in traffic on the M62 on a Friday and still turned out in decent numbers, so I don't really see your point.

The nightmare M62 excuse is exactly that. I've been travelling over to Yorkshire at least once or twice a month watching Wigan for 15+ years now and I think we've missed the kick off once(which was at Leeds and more to do with the traffic around the ground).

It's not like we leave too early either. If were at Leeds on a Friday night we tend to go after work around 5.45-6pm.

No excuses for that following last night although fair play to the ones that bothered. They're not the issue in all this the same as the Giants fans that travelled last week weren't.