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[Matt J]

I said it after the games v's Wires

Featherstone best team in the league and continue to improve (results prove it)

Best team for me since the super league license started, would love them to get a crack at SL.

my only issue is they are already too many yorkshire clubs and hope Widnes get the slot.

don't bother shooting me down its my opinion.

Fair point, but one day someone at Red Hall will have to realise that the best way to have a strong competition is having the best teams in the best division, its simple, but it works!

[1976PMJwires]

Fair point, but one day someone at Red Hall will have to realise that the best way to have a strong competition is having the best teams in the best division, its simple, but it works!

1001% agree.

I just wish when SL license started it was made even (i.e 5 yorkies 5 lancs (as it was) and then the rest filled in)

kept some local derby games and then expansion teams (4 off)

[Lobbygobbler]

presumably they were in a promotion hunt the year they actually went up.
as for your second comment: thanks for that, it's highly instructive.

Righty ho - got you now

To be honest the reasons for the crowd drop in the promo season is down to several factors. Firstly I believe there was a general feeling after the previous season that we would never go up in a one-up/down situation due to the strength of the sides coming down (I saw us lose the Shudds and Salford in earlier NL1 finals and the wind really was knocked out of our sails). Also there was a change of coach with Terzis leaving and being replaced by Darren Abram who IMO was not as good a coach and assembled a poorer team. Effectivley we went into SL with our poorest squad for 6-7 years! On reflection perhaps it would have been better if Haven had gone up instead of us, although that one season in SL got a lot of dropped and and new fans watching RL in Leigh, and perhaps staved off soccer for a while

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Righty ho - got you now

To be honest the reasons for the crowd drop in the promo season is down to several factors. Firstly I believe there was a general feeling after the previous season that we would never go up in a one-up/down situation due to the strength of the sides coming down (I saw us lose the Shudds and Salford in earlier NL1 finals and the wind really was knocked out of our sails). Also there was a change of coach with Terzis leaving and being replaced by Darren Abram who IMO was not as good a coach and assembled a poorer team. Effectivley we went into SL with our poorest squad for 6-7 years! On reflection perhaps it would have been better if Haven had gone up instead of us, although that one season in SL got a lot of dropped and and new fans watching RL in Leigh, and perhaps staved off soccer for a while

I think that is a very interesting call Lobby, and I'll go along with it. Each near miss season in that era on a cursory glance at any rate seemed to attract less people: out of frustration maybe-you'll know why better than me.
I liked Paul Terzis a lot.

[Trojan]

I think that is a very interesting call Lobby, and I'll go along with it. Each near miss season in that era on a cursory glance at any rate seemed to attract less people: out of frustration maybe-you'll know why better than me.
I liked Paul Terzis a lot.

The company I worked for sponsored the Leigh - Fev game in 2001. We had a meal before the game, drinks at half time and another meal afterwards. It was very pleasant. But the Leigh lot (including Kevin Ashcroft who should have know better) spent quite a lot of time sneering at me because I was the only Fev fan present. They were very gung ho and convinced they'd be promoted. Three weeks later I was at Hilton Park again, this time as an ordinary supporter for a play-off game. We were shouting for Fev among the Leigh fans, and they started to threaten us. So we moved elsewhere at half time - only to find three threatening looking heavies standing behind us. As it happened Leigh weren't promoted. When Kevin Ashcroft rang in the closed season to ask if we'd be interested in sponsoring another game I told him no.