Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:11 am  

The fifth & eighth placed teams in the Super League played each other at the birthplace of Rugby League in the first round of the play offs the attendance was given as 5869
At the Blue Square Premier League football match between Luton Town & Cambridge Utd the attendance was 6691 makes you think don't it.

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:56 pm  

it's the age-old problem of spreading the game to the southern parts of england to get more people interested etc etc
it's the same problem in france - nobody north of Toulouse has any interest in the 13s version except or a few ex-pat southern frenchmen in the Paris area
unfortunately these attitudes will never change...

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:58 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

it's the age-old problem of spreading the game to the southern parts of england to get more people interested etc etc
it's the same problem in france - nobody north of Toulouse has any interest in the 13s version except or a few ex-pat southern frenchmen in the Paris area
unfortunately these attitudes will never change...

Game will never spread whilstever the RFL and superleague keep pissing about with daft rules like Stevo's favourite 'momentum rule' and no promotion/relegation etc and plonking Superleague clubs in disinterested backwaters while letting traditional clubs rot.
The whole set up is a farce.

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:34 pm  

spot on Gargoyle but don't include Perpignan or Toulouse in the definition of 'disinterested backwaters' - the potential is massive down here

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:13 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

spot on Gargoyle but don't include Perpignan or Toulouse in the definition of 'disinterested backwaters' - the potential is massive down here

Theres 'potential' everywhere, the Summer conference is almost nationwide. But the spread of the game in England should have taken place gradually away from the traditional heartland of the M62 corridor (Mansfield/Nottingham, Gateshead, Scarborough spring to mind) then onwards towards the Midlands.
Instead we get outposts like London/Harlequins, S.Wales (that has flopped yet again!) and Paris St Germain/Catalans and Toulouse playing in leagues they were never promoted to and clearly aren't good enough to compete in!
Meanwhile traditional clubs like Halifax, Featherstone and Dewsbury struggle and others (Bramley and Huyton for instance) go out of existence.
Superleagues emergence has alot to answer for.

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:46 am  

It's all well and good spreading the game, but it has to be done fairly. How can business plans be accepted for promotion when they have no business background to back these projections? If they are in a league the should abide by the rules, i.e. overseas player quota, salary cap etc...

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:17 pm  

why are traditional clubs like Fev,Fax,Bramley Huyton etc etc etc struggling ? not because of Toulouse or Dragons cos' they DO have positive business plans just as snagsbosun indicated - the model is from his town of Doncaster - after all the ups & downs of Donny over the decades Carl Hall & co are TRYING to make it work at least - the failure of all these so called traditional clubs in the championship etc is mostly of their own making - you have to cut your cloth accordingly,end of.- RL in London area is booming according the reports i've heard - it's fashionable to blame the RFL & the SL for everything nowadays but the clubs have to take responsability for themselves - the good old days of flat-cap rugby league is finished,it's time to move on...

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:12 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

why are traditional clubs like Fev,Fax,Bramley Huyton etc etc etc struggling ? not because of Toulouse or Dragons cos' they DO have positive business plan...

Most of the current clubs outside of the Super League haven't yet managed to find the back door entrance to the Super League & they aren't allowed to have large numbers of Australian & New Zealand players in there squads

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:33 pm  

BTW the Giants have increased their Crowd 111% in last ten years and still get stick from some of the other super league clubs fans on numbers viewtopic.php?f=26&t=470759

BTW the Giants have increased their Crowd 111% in last ten years and still get stick from some of the other super league clubs fans on numbers viewtopic.php?f=26&t=470759

Re: Yesterdays Attendance At Huddersfield : Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:44 pm  

not everyone can be in the SL or the Championship/1 so the obvious way to make it fairer would be to go back to the promotion/relegation system and scrap the present franchise lottery - you either earn your place or not,as the case may be