Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:01 am  

spanishbob wrote:

I was at the Keighley Fev game and the crowd there was poor. I don't expect much better at our game today to be honest. Barrow are mot going to bring many and its a pay game.

To be fair to Barrow they brought a couple of hundred to the LSV for a group game earlier this season. Keighley crowd was an odd one given there were 900-1,000 home fans there for the game last week.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:20 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

To be fair to Barrow they brought a couple of hundred to the LSV for a group game earlier this season. Keighley crowd was an odd one given there were 900-1,000 home fans there for the game last week.

Official gate was around 1400, Barrow brought a good few more than i expected, well done

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:45 pm  

We're a football city, and England were playing their biggest game of football for two years. Add that to the fact the game isn't on the season ticket, it was p!ssing it down with rain, we were playing Hunslet who are frankly hopeless, no away fans, we were lucky to get as many as we did! We had no choice but to play the game on Friday evening, couldn't get the stadium Sunday and Mark Aston was coaching Ireland on Saturday.

Our crowds have been steady between 1200-1500 this season, which I know doesn't match your dizzy heights but for us it's ok, and the one game we marketed we got 1900 vs Swinton the first league game of the season.

I'm sure there'll be more there when we play you in the semi.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:49 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

We're a football city, and England were playing their biggest game of football for two years. Add that to the fact the game isn't on the season ticket, it was p!ssing it down with rain, we were playing Hunslet who are frankly hopeless, no away fans, we were lucky to get as many as we did! We had no choice but to play the game on Friday evening, couldn't get the stadium Sunday and Mark Aston was coaching Ireland on Saturday.

Our crowds have been steady between 1200-1500 this season, which I know doesn't match your dizzy heights but for us it's ok, and the one game we marketed we got 1900 vs Swinton the first league game of the season.

I'm sure there'll be more there when we play you in the semi.

I can fully understand the other distractions, so why play the game on friday?
Pure stupidity IMO.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:50 pm  

Bartholemew Smythe wrote:

I can fully understand the other distractions, so why play the game on friday?
Pure stupidity IMO.

E.S.O wrote:

We had no choice but to play the game on Friday evening, couldn't get the stadium Sunday and Mark Aston was coaching Ireland on Saturday.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:01 pm  

Apologies.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:03 pm  

No sweat.

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:11 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

No sweat.

So the reason you played on Friday was because Mark Aston was coaching Ireland on Saturday?

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:14 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

:MOTOR:
So the reason you played on Friday was because Mark Aston was coaching Ireland on Saturday?

Yes...

Re: Sheffield v Hunslet : Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:21 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

Yes...

So his priority is Ireland?
When will he let us know when he is available for the semi?