Re: next years Championship : Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:00 pm  

Hudd-Shay wrote:

If that scenario occurred the total away support for all those four fixtures wouldn't reach 200. An absolute joke the way our game is going. How do the RFL expect clubs to survive with income streams reduced by such lack of away support? How are supporters going to be able to follow their club away from home? It just proves once again that the game below SL is inconsequential to the powers that be and we all know what happens when you build a house on sand.

The joke is you are reliant on away support. If you cant cope with the pressures / financial challenges of the Championship, drop down a level to something more suitable, after all the Championship is the second tier of rugby league, involving clubs aspiring to Super League.

Re: next years Championship : Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:41 pm  

We're not reliant on away support, although it's good to get a few more pennies into the bank when the likes of Bradford or HKR come to town. The main problem for the likes of Fax next year is having (possibly/probably) 3 games in another country (Toulouse, Catalans and Toronto), plus a trip down to London. Tough on players who have other jobs, tough on supporters who like to go to every game, and probably tough from a financial perspective unless the RFL are covering all the expenses for those away games.

...other than that, games against teams with next to zero away support can be a bit of a damp squib. Unless the home team really puts on a performance, the lack of an away team support to generate some atmosphere can result in games feeling very flat. We've played fantastic against some teams, put 40 points past them, but walked out of the ground feeling deflated - for sport to be enjoyable you need a good opponent, and either a massive home crowd or less numbers but with some friendly and noisy rivalry between them.

Re: next years Championship : Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:07 pm  

I find crowds distracting.

Re: next years Championship : Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:03 pm  

PC Plum wrote:

The joke is you are reliant on away support. If you cant cope with the pressures / financial challenges of the Championship, drop down a level to something more suitable, after all the Championship is the second tier of rugby league, involving clubs aspiring to Super League.

Out of touch.

Re: next years Championship : Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:04 pm  

PC Plum wrote:

The joke is you are reliant on away support. If you cant cope with the pressures / financial challenges of the Championship, drop down a level to something more suitable, after all the Championship is the second tier of rugby league, involving clubs aspiring to Super League.

The real joke is the greedy Super League clubs that can't cope with the pressure / financial challenges of Super League and are the first to moan about crowds being down and if they can't cope they should drop down to something more suitable instead of proposing to rob the rest to pay for their shortfall.
They don't want the Championship clubs to aspire to anything other than serve their selfish agenda such as another round of closed shop RFL favorites as will be proven when the changes are announced for 2019.

Re: next years Championship : Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:28 am  

Your assessment is 100% correct faxcar

Re: next years Championship : Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:34 am  

Well said Faxcar. Hit the nail on the head.

Re: next years Championship : Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:46 am  

Apart from it not being any sort of joke sadly.

Re: next years Championship : Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:09 am  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Out of touch.

Agreed.

Also it is fundamentally clear that the RFL consider teams like Fax being also-rans. Of the local sides even, I get the feeling that nobody has anything really positive to say about us - maybe apart from the Warrington game on TV . They would want Fev up over us clearly and if they could have London too they would be bubbling over!

Our defence has been outstanding this year - particularly at Wire and on TV too! If we could find/nurture a couple of game-breakers / line breakers, we could push for the MPG all by ourselves next year, again ALL odds!

Re: next years Championship : Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:46 pm  

Encouraged wrote:

Agreed.

Also it is fundamentally clear that the RFL consider teams like Fax being also-rans. Of the local sides even, I get the feeling that nobody has anything really positive to say about us - maybe apart from the Warrington game on TV . They would want Fev up over us clearly and if they could have London too they would be bubbling over!

Our defence has been outstanding this year - particularly at Wire and on TV too! If we could find/nurture a couple of game-breakers / line breakers, we could push for the MPG all by ourselves next year, again ALL odds!

I agree with that but.... why would the RFL favour Featherstone over Fax? What have we done wrong?