Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:46 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

Will they?

Where are they then? Where are the Bradford, Wakefield and London fans going to watch RL now they arent going to Bradford, Wakefield and London?

Which promoted team is going to bring the 10-12k to the table Bradford did? The 6/7k Wakefield did?

Where's the games 'win'.

Is every sport without P+R, wrestling? Is the NRL wrestling?

The point of the top league is to be the biggest and best it can. If you dont like that, there is plenty of amateur RL for you to go watch.

The ' Win ' wont always match the ' loss ' or visa versa, or wont always happen at the same time, overal if the sport gains more interest then fine

Either way if the Bulls,Wakey and London ( although they have several different issues that could affect attendances this year ) fans cannot be bothered to support THEIR club because they are at risk, they are no great loss to the sport, the vast majority of sports fans never see their club win anything, good job they dont all jack in because of it

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:55 pm  

Super League XX will see the highest AVERAGE attendance for the competition in its 20th year.....if the RFL had figured out that all they had to do to BOOST AVERAGE attendances was get shot of London, we'd have been relegated a lot sooner

The Crowd at Bradford showed a quite alarming drop, regardless of the shenanigans at the club. As much as I berate the idiots who run the London Broncos at present, I'd still drag my 'arris to the Hive 13 times to cheer on the team...it's what being a "fan" is all about. The Bradford faithful need to get behind their team.....the more of them through the gates the more attractive an investment the club will seem!

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:18 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Super League XX will see the highest AVERAGE attendance for the competition in its 20th year.....if the RFL had figured out that all they had to do to BOOST AVERAGE attendances was get shot of London, we'd have been relegated a lot sooner


The Crowd at Bradford showed a quite alarming drop, regardless of the shenanigans at the club. As much as I berate the idiots who run the London Broncos at present, I'd still drag my 'arris to the Hive 13 times to cheer on the team...it's what being a "fan" is all about. The Bradford faithful need to get behind their team.....the more of them through the gates the more attractive an investment the club will seem!

If you were a potential investor and you read on here the loyal fans opinions of Mr Khan, and their thoughts on him recovering just a %age of the extremely large sum he put in to ' save THEIR Club, would you be interested?

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:55 am  

Starbug wrote:

The ' Win ' wont always match the ' loss ' or visa versa, or wont always happen at the same time, overal if the sport gains more interest then fine

Either way if the Bulls,Wakey and London ( although they have several different issues that could affect attendances this year ) fans cannot be bothered to support THEIR club because they are at risk, they are no great loss to the sport, the vast majority of sports fans never see their club win anything, good job they dont all jack in because of it

Brilliant. Its great that the game is so flushed with money and fans that we can afford to alienate those who dont pass the 'starbug test for proper fans'

Im sure Bradford, London and Wakefield feel the big drop in revenue that these supporters bring is 'no great loss to the game'

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:37 am  

Starbug wrote:

If you were a potential investor and you read on here the loyal fans opinions of Mr Khan, and their thoughts on him recovering just a %age of the extremely large sum he put in to ' save THEIR Club, would you be interested?

Absolutely not. If I was seriously considering investing time money and effort into a business, I would ignore all commercial considerations and base my decisions on random posts by internet forum warriors.

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:42 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Absolutely not. If I was seriously considering investing time money and effort into a business, I would ignore all commercial considerations and base my decisions on random posts by internet forum warriors.

Hello mr whitcut

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:41 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

Brilliant. Its great that the game is so flushed with money and fans that we can afford to alienate those who dont pass the 'starbug test for proper fans'

Im sure Bradford, London and Wakefield feel the big drop in revenue that these supporters bring is 'no great loss to the game'

Not my test by any stretch ,if they dont want to go after 2 matches because they ' might ' not retain their top tier status, that is their decision , but ultimatley any club is only as strong as its fan base, no doubt they enjoyed their time in the sun , I'm sure none of them have ever ' enjoyed ' gloating to Fax, Keighley, Batley or Dewsbury fans recently?

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:46 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Not my test by any stretch ,if they dont want to go after 2 matches because they ' might ' not retain their top tier status, that is their decision , but ultimatley any club is only as strong as its fan base, no doubt they enjoyed their time in the sun , I'm sure none of them have ever ' enjoyed ' gloating to Fax, Keighley, Batley or Dewsbury fans recently?

doubt any bradford fan has done much gloating recently!

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:48 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Absolutely not. If I was seriously considering investing time money and effort into a business, I would ignore all commercial considerations and base my decisions on random posts by internet forum warriors.

' Commercial considerations ' ,you crack me up at times

Re: Opening weekend sees attendances soaring by 12.70% : Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:49 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

doubt any bradford fan has done much gloating recently!

Recently being the last 15 years