: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:40 pm  

Hollywood Harrigan wrote:

I reckon the Bulls have a good record at Headingley. I can think of a fair few stuffings in the past. You have only won 3 in the SL era though. Go on our board and call out a guy called TVOC. He's the stat man and knows almost everything there is to know about Leeds.

Yeah I know we've only won three and it's not a great record and I might be wrong but I get the impression that no team has a very good record at headingley

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:50 pm  

Barry Clegg 2nd wrote:

Sorry i thought you where a Leeds fan not a Saints fan.

Saints have never won SL at a canter.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:07 pm  

Barry Clegg 2nd wrote:

Where as Leeds are watched by idiots who have no respect!

That's a bit strong!
I have the utmost respect for wakey and john kear as many of your fellow wildcats can testify!

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:20 pm  

Forumjacker wrote:

To be fair, we dont need your money, we have plenty, so feel free to keep it in your pocket.

We pay premium prices for a premium side.

Just take a look at the arrogant nature of that post.

Whoever posted that with prices like the whinos are charging, that our sport may become like what football is today, is totally spot on.

With the whinos charging £20, I don't care if you're reigning world champions or current Super League champions or the best team of a county, but it is steep. To reiterate an earlier post of mine, it seems the whinos don't realise how difficult the financial cirumstances are in Britain at the moment.

But this is where it starts. One club charges stupid money for matches, then every other team tries to out-do each other, seeing how much they can rip off the fans, how expensive a ticket they can realisticly get away with selling to gullable mugs. If clubs like Leeds aren't careful, the only people who'll be able to afford the cost of watching rugby league matches in the future, would be solicitors, barristers, bank managers and entrepreneurs. And it will all be because a short-sighted bunch of board members took it away from traditional rugby league audiences, the families, the honest hard-working people who bust a gut week in week out, for a couple of hours worth of entertainment.

To back this up, even Premiership football clubs are learning their lesson for taking the people who pay their wages (the fans) for granted for so long, two have frozen season ticket prices for next season, while another three have actually reduced the prices, using common sense rather than chasing pound signs.

Think about that.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:28 pm  

Wakefieldite wrote:

Just take a look at the arrogant nature of that post.

Whoever posted that with prices like the whinos are charging, that our sport may become like what football is today, is totally spot on.

With the whinos charging £20, I don't care if you're reigning world champions or current Super League champions or the best team of a county, but it is steep. To reiterate an earlier post of mine, it seems the whinos don't realise how difficult the financial cirumstances are in Britain at the moment.

But this is where it starts. One club charges stupid money for matches, then every other team tries to out-do each other, seeing how much they can rip off the fans, how expensive a ticket they can realisticly get away with selling to gullable mugs. If clubs like Leeds aren't careful, the only people who'll be able to afford the cost of watching rugby league matches in the future, would be solicitors, barristers, bank managers and entrepreneurs. And it will all be because a short-sighted bunch of board members took it away from traditional rugby league audiences, the families, the honest hard-working people who bust a gut week in week out, for a couple of hours worth of entertainment.

To back this up, even Premiership football clubs are learning their lesson for taking the people who pay their wages (the fans) for granted for so long, two have frozen season ticket prices for next season, while another three have actually reduced the prices, using common sense rather than chasing pound signs.

Think about that.

I've thought about it, and dismissed it.

£20 isn't much for the quality on show.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:34 pm  

chissitt wrote:

You could say that about half of S/L, the difference is their catering facilities are a lot better and the queues' are not as long. By comparison our next away match at KR well that must be the worst ground in S/L for away fans. You are made to sit on wet seats if it rains by thugs pretending to be stewards' abley backed up by the local constabulary who are just looking for someone to put in a headlock if you dont, on the pretext that its unsafe to stand. If its unsafe then we shouldnt be on it. Then there is the super deluxe portocabin toilets not to mention the bottle bar. then there is the to die for burger in that desirable burger stand. The first year they were in S/L my trousers were that caked up in mud the wife would not believe I'd been to a match. And one last thing it was £20 to get in Craven Park LAST year God knows how much it will be this year. On reflection adam roll on Friday and I think that when you have been to KR you will realise that Headingley wasnt so bad after all.

Don't give a monkeys about catering facilities: lol:
But no doubt I will end up paying the £20 as I have not missed a Wakey league game at Leeds in ages.

Yeah KR is a dump, first time I went there I had some guys with gags in there gobs rattling fence that separated the away and home fans

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:26 pm  

As a matter of interest - is it also 20.00 for Leeds fans who pay on the gate ?

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:32 pm  

cocker wrote:

As a matter of interest - is it also 20.00 for Leeds fans who pay on the gate ?

so does that make it right, hats off to wigan for charging £16, and the mrs found it novel to have hot water in the toilets luxury

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:39 pm  

Just seem to recall that last season entry to the leeds standing sections of the ground was cheaper than the west terrace - or did I dream that ?

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:06 pm  

i think for wots it worth that there should be a standard price all super league teams charge not wot each club feels like!!! alot seem to forget we now in a credit crunch too and i know it may sem daft but 20 asaposse to 16 may just put people of esp if you gotta a family it mounts up, ok rant over now i be there on friday anyway