The point is that we aren’t playing in SL, and in order for us to have any chance of doing so, we have to convince the RFL that we are worthy of it. In terms of an attendance, in our last home game we achieved less than a 2000 home gate.
With figures like that are the RFL, really going to take us seriously! From their point of view, Crusaders and Fax, average the same sort of home crowd. Which is more beneficial to the modern game...a development club?....or a club still congratulating itself on getting to the Challenge cup Final in 1987!
Fax4Life, you say that Crusaders are giving away free tickets, then fair play to them!! It’s the attendance figures that the RFL are looking for, as oppose to the revenue. I’m sure that the Skircoat Stand could be filled had the correct marketing gone towards it, would it be too difficult to give every primary school in Calderdale a handful of free tickets in an attempt to bulk the attendance up, I think not.
With Fax being in a 10 mile range of the Bulls and Hudds, who both average 5000+, it is naive of Fax fans to think that they will be given a look in by the RFL. In terms of attendance figures then the M62 corridor is at saturation point, Wrexham, London, S. France will always be more appealing to the RFL, if the people of Halifax don’t do their bit and come and support their local team then that is the way it’ll always be.
