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Where do the ones who watch Warrington Town and Rylands come from then?

Do you not think that as the biggest population centre to have a fully professional rugby league club in the UK they should? Regardless of form, results, league position, training ground floods etc, Leeds should be the best supported club in the country.

I meant is there any connection between Warrington Wolves crowds dropping and Warrington Town and Rylands crowds going up. It seems not.

Thanks for your input

A sugar daddied plaything I believe?

Cheers, so no correlation then?

Would the relative success of Warrington's semi pro football teams and their increase in attendances have affected Wire? Rylands, for example won the Northern Premier League West and attracted 1200 yesterday, and have seen their crowds increase by 354% over the last year, Warrington Town have made the NPL Play offs and could be 2 levels from the EFL next season, they're averaging over 500 for this season and have almost doubled their average crowds in the last 4 years. Could it be that the "hangers on", casual supporters have now switched their fandom from the rugby to football? Yesterday was the emptiest, quietest and unresponsive I think I can remember seeing the HJ.

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Good luck to them then, although I doubt it's just Leeds?

Did you ask them all? I doubt many Huddersfield fans care if they're attractive to Leeds fans to be honest Plus relegation battles between the league's poorest 2 sides will usually attract a willing audience, as well as Leeds fans turning up with the expectation rather than hope of seeing a win again

His Grandfather is Trinidadian.

Shepherding- I never hear that anymore. Won against the head... Feeding.. He's a decent enough player = quality player.

Middles?

Warrington would be fine for Wigan v Saints, Doncaster would be fine for Huddersfield v Hull KR.

I agree with this, how many people apart from real hardcore fans or friends and families are going to rock up at 12.00 and sit through 6-7 hours of rugby? The womens final should be maximising the attendance and TV viewing figures, I'd love to watch it but I'm not going to Elland road that early, why not play it as a stand alone fixture and maximise the event?

Personally, I would like to have a smaller venue packed out and make tickets scarce than make sure there are lots of empty spaces just so anyone can get one if they fancy it. We should be making cup semi finals sell outs and trying to enhance the cup again, playing it amidst loads of empty seats for me doesn't show the game and cup in particular in a good light. Imagine if there's less than 10,000 for the Giants game, after the Lancastrians have gone back through passport control, wouldn't it look better in a smaller, fuller ground like, say, Doncaster or Rotherham etc than having 30,000 empty spaces at Elland road?

They may be iconic, a bit like my old stomping ground of Hillsborough but Anfield an Elland road are dreadful, but most British grounds are just seats bolted on to old terracing, those steps were built for people to stand up on not sit down on Regardless, the RFL seem to like Elland road and I'm sure the Giants fans along with everyone else will enjoy themselves. However, I do believe that a semi final should be a stand alone event where the day belongs to the 2 semi finalists and not a mini magic weekend. Imagine if 2 real outsiders made the semi final, I know Huddersfield and Hull KR aren't exactly the biggest but although purely speculative, imagine if say, Leigh and Barrow got to a semi final, surely the fans of those teams would want the day and the ground to be about them, imagine then that they had to to share the day with say, Warrington or Leeds, it would take away the magic and sense of occasion for me.

I know it's against Saints, but have Wigan ever taken 10,000 to a semi final in recent times? They usually only manage half of that at Leigh or Warrington, not sure 10,000 will go to Leeds? Giants will have more than 2,000 don't worry!

How many in the premier League for example? Exactly... You can't compare.

1800 Saints, great effort. Disappointing from Giants, but it is what it is.

How?

They are where they are, same with every club, they should do all they can to attract people to come where they are not just accept that people don't want to come.

Is it not down to the home teams to pull the crowds in? I get that Catalans aren't going to bring hundreds of away fans, but then it should be up to the home club to promote, market and sell the game regardless of how many visiting fans turn up?

50? That's generous! Usually a lot lower than that, but I've always found the London fans to be a great bunch bar the odd one or two muppets.

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