: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:51 am  

Cook was sent off after 34 minutes.
That leaves 46 minutes...he was off.
The sin binnings were McDermott and Bovill (9 mins)
Finch (34 mins) Divorty (20 mins).

So it went... both sides 13 men for 9 mins
Both sides 12 men for 10 mins
Both sides 13 men for 1 min.
Barrow 13 men Donny 12 for 10 mins
Barrow 13 men Donny 13 for 4 mins.
Barrow 12 Donny 12 for 10 minutes.
Barrow 13 Donny 12 for 36 minutes.
Totalling that lot gives the time Barrow had an extra man as 46 mins.
HTH

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:40 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

Cook was sent off after 34 minutes.
That leaves 46 minutes...he was off.
The sin binnings were McDermott and Bovill (9 mins)
Finch (34 mins) Divorty (20 mins).

So it went... both sides 13 men for 9 mins
Both sides 12 men for 10 mins
Both sides 13 men for 1 min.
Barrow 13 men Donny 12 for 10 mins
Barrow 13 men Donny 13 for 4 mins.
Barrow 12 Donny 12 for 10 minutes.
Barrow 13 Donny 12 for 36 minutes.
Totalling that lot gives the time Barrow had an extra man as 46 mins.
HTH

In the cup game last week Queens had 2 players sinned binned so they played 20 mins of the 62 minutes with 12 men but they still managed to score two trys against us in the period when there second player was in the sin bin

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:52 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

The reason why they had a larger than average crowd of 1809 was because the club were giving vouchers or some scheme for there supporters to purchase tickets for there home cup tie against Wigan

Do you think we would have attracted 1800 fans had we been playing Wigan at home in the Cup, voucher scheme or no? You know the answer as well as I do, Geoff.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:23 pm  

seuseuwho? wrote:

Do you think we would have attracted 1800 fans had we been playing Wigan at home in the Cup, voucher scheme or no? You know the answer as well as I do, Geoff.

Not too long back season 2000 in fact our average home attendance for league matches was 1603 so you must ask yourself why are the 800 missing fans staying away?

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:37 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

Not too long back season 2000 in fact our average home attendance for league matches was 1603 so you must ask yourself why are the 800 missing fans staying away?

Wrong end of town, maybe? Wrong setting? The credit crunch? Could be a number of reasons. What's your take on it?

All of these, I would venture to suggest.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:23 pm  

seuseuwho? wrote:

Wrong end of town, maybe? Wrong setting? The credit crunch? Could be a number of reasons. What's your take on it?

All of these, I would venture to suggest.

In the year 2000 we were playing at the wrong end of town, the credit crunch wasn't effecting many people last season but disposable income is very tight at present.

The Rovers & Rugby Union club are enjoying successful seasons

I think no promotion or relegation for at least 3yrs discourages people from watching the game.

Far too many rule changes.

More kicking than in rugby union

Pretend scrums

Fast tracking teams in to Super League in favour of teams from the established areas of the game.

Poor performance by the England team

The majority of games are very boring to watch the rule changes have taken away the skills of the game the game seems to revolve around five drives and a kick and hope the other team surrender the ball

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:46 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

In the year 2000 we were playing at the wrong end of town, the credit crunch wasn't effecting many people last season but disposable income is very tight at present.

The Rovers & Rugby Union club are enjoying successful seasons

I think no promotion or relegation for at least 3yrs discourages people from watching the game.

Far too many rule changes.

More kicking than in rugby union

Pretend scrums

Fast tracking teams in to Super League in favour of teams from the established areas of the game.

Poor performance by the England team

The majority of games are very boring to watch the rule changes have taken away the skills of the game the game seems to revolve around five drives and a kick and hope the other team surrender the ball

Unfortunately, I can't argue with much of that, although we were penalised at a scrum on Saturday, which is a novelty.