Be Loud and Proud Fax ! : Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:46 am  

Respect to all the teams and their fans in our league and in that I include all teams and fans from top to bottom that contribute to our game. I have yet to see any team roll over in our league and have seen some fantastic efforts and performances highs and lows. We have all had those highs and lows and if I am honest that's what keeps me coming back for more.Ours is the best league bar NONE !

Take a look at some of the big time Charlies in S/L where some seem to take the view that putting in mediocre performances is OK because they have nothing to loose and will pick up a fat pay packet regardless.

If I were a fan of some of these clubs I would genuinely have to ask myself if I were not better off watching Championship Rugby League rather than contributing to what can only be described as the great S/L rip off.

S/L is doing nothing for grass roots Rugby League in my view and and the sooner the RFL wise up and rethink the whole Sham our game is in grave danger of becoming extinct.

I am genuinely proud to say I am a fan of the game in the Championship.

We should all sell the game to our mates,family friends,any bugger that will listen to help build and grow our own league and put some more butts on seats.

Be loud and proud Championship fans !

Re: Be Loud and Proud Fax ! : Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:59 pm  

I have got to agree with this post, several weeks ago when we were playing Keighley at the Shay I was (as usual ) collecting for the Under 23s when an elderley gent stopped to drop some money in.He was having a bit of a joke and enquiring if it was a Bulls collection (Bulls had just anounced they wanted their fans to find £500,000) He told me up until the previous year he had been a Bulls fan for practicly all his life but he followed Keighley now. He then walked off but I followed after him as I was interested in what makes a fan move teams especialy a Super League team.
His reply was" I followed Bradford because I live in Bradford and I am passionate about following your local team , then three or four years ago I moved house to Keighley and felt guilty passing Keighley ground to go to Bradford.So I watched both I kept my Bradford season ticket and where fixtures allowed I went to Keighley for a season.My visits to Keighley were more enjoyable than my visits to Bradford it`s a more honest division and the people more friendly. Plus I saw first hand how the Championship Clubs are treated by the RFL and the Super League so now I don`t go to Bradford even though their season ticket is cheaper, it`s about how I feel inside"
Now that gent was a Keighley season ticket holder, he was wearing a Cougers shirt , jacket and scarf , so he`s put a bob or two into Keighley. And in no way will he make up all the Keighley fans that left them after Bradford targeted all their fans but don`t you wish you could just bottle what he felt inside and sell it in the club shop?