Re: Intersting times at York?? : Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:20 pm  

Stealth Comic wrote:

That's because they don't play rugby in York, they just try to beat people up.

How did Daley Williams look in pre season? He missed a game or two if I remember correctly.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:35 pm  

John Ismiddle wrote:

How did Daley Williams look in pre season? He missed a game or two if I remember correctly.

Sugar Ray looked a class act against Saints 2nd string.

How's Glass Jaw Ratcliffe doing?

If he's as good at evading tacklers as he is with left hooks it's no wonder he's still at York.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:01 pm  

I reckon Daley will do just fine in the championship, even though it's a step up in skill and commitment from last year, when he was in championship one and playing lowly clubs like, er, York.
(tee hee!)

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:28 pm  

Mr A**emiddle, remind me, didn't we beat you in the playoffs? You really shouldn't come on here gobbing off when your still pitter pattering around in the lower league, you'll get a nosebleed my friend.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:10 pm  

Stealth Comic wrote:

Sugar Ray looked a class act against Saints 2nd string.

How's Glass Jaw Ratcliffe doing?

If he's as good at evading tacklers as he is with left hooks it's no wonder he's still at York.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:10 pm  

(Sings)
"Oh it's all gone quiet over there!"

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:56 pm  

Mick W. wrote:

(Sings)
"Oh it's all gone quiet over there!"

What's this?





































The Huntingdon Stadium when there's a York game on.

In fact it's so bad there that the local council want to demolish the ground and build a library. However they have come under fierce criticism from local residents because they fear that when it's completed noise levels will be 10 times louder than when York are playing.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:49 am  

Keighley Cougars average Home attendance in 2009 - 925
York City Knights average Home attendance in 2009 - 1086

Thats an extra £2k per game through the till, probably just enough to pay for little things like the tax man. Maybe your club should look at ways of making a few quid rather than spending what they obviously don't have.

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:57 am  

John Ismiddle wrote:

Keighley Cougars average Home attendance in 2009 - 925
York City Knights average Home attendance in 2009 - 1086

Thats an extra £2k per game through the till, probably just enough to pay for little things like the tax man. Maybe your club should look at ways of making a few quid rather than spending what they obviously don't have.

But if you look more closely at the records for 2009 you will see that we reached and won a final

I was told by a contact in York that it cost you over 2k/wk to keep re decorating graffitied toilets, replacing best linen table cloths, and maintaining acting lessons for fullbacks

PS Most people will have every sympathy with what ratcliffe was apparently trying to do but not with the method he allegedly chose to do it. If you come onto someone elses website looking for an argument you will usually find one

Re: Intersting times at York?? : Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:02 am  

John Ismiddle wrote: Keighley Cougars average Home attendance in 2009 - 925 York City Knights average Home attendance in 2009 - 1086 Thats an extra £2k per game through the till, probably just enough to pay for little things like the tax man. Maybe your club should look at ways of making a few quid rather than spending what they obviously don't have. Population of York 174k Population of Keighley 52k Percentage of Population going to games. York 0.62% Keighley 1.78% Professional Clubs within 25 mile radius of ground York: Castleford, Leeds, Featherstone, Hunslet Keighley: Halifax, Br*dford, Leeds, Batley, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Huddersfield, Castleford, Wakefield, Rochdale, Oldham not to mention 7 pro football clubs as well. So despite being our town being a third of the size of the city of York and having 3 times as much competition as York do, our attendance is only 15% less than yours. I think it speaks volumes about how good the staff are at Cougar Park at bringing people in especially considering how badly the town's been hit by the recession. As for trying to bring money in you better look at this, viewtopic.php?f=31&t=442765 Is that the world's 5th largest brewing corporation we've just attracted as a sponsor?

John Ismiddle wrote: Keighley Cougars average Home attendance in 2009 - 925 York City Knights average Home attendance in 2009 - 1086 Thats an extra £2k per game through the till, probably just enough to pay for little things like the tax man. Maybe your club should look at ways of making a few quid rather than spending what they obviously don't have. Population of York 174k Population of Keighley 52k Percentage of Population going to games. York 0.62% Keighley 1.78% Professional Clubs within 25 mile radius of ground York: Castleford, Leeds, Featherstone, Hunslet Keighley: Halifax, Br*dford, Leeds, Batley, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Huddersfield, Castleford, Wakefield, Rochdale, Oldham not to mention 7 pro football clubs as well. So despite being our town being a third of the size of the city of York and having 3 times as much competition as York do, our attendance is only 15% less than yours. I think it speaks volumes about how good the staff are at Cougar Park at bringing people in especially considering how badly the town's been hit by the recession. As for trying to bring money in you better look at this, viewtopic.php?f=31&t=442765 Is that the world's 5th largest brewing corporation we've just attracted as a sponsor?