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AB Knight

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  1. 20 hours ago, White Knight said:

    I do like your posts AB.  We should celebrate all success, big crowds, milestones, the lot. 

    They are just a bit long. I need to develop a way of making my point in less than 10,000 words 🤣

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  2. I think it’s a good indicator of where we are as a club - if it wasn’t, why just a few seasons ago at Bootham were the club shouting from the rooftops about opening 4 stands against Featherstone? Or telling everyone about our record Knights attendance against Bradford? Something I’ve noticed particularly about RL but also most kinds of entertainment is the need to create a buzz, we manage it on occasions, people are afraid of missing out and all kinds of industries play on that be it Prime energy drinks, an emerging band playing a tiny venue (my mates still go on about seeing Arctic Monkeys in a 100 capacity venue in Wakefield early on), Black Friday, or closer to home Wigan-St Helen’s which looks like it will sell out. 
     

    As for attendances themselves there’s 2 points to make.
     

    Firstly I’m a big believer in being honest and straight with people - if the club for whatever reason don’t want to release the figures (be it due to low attendances or not believing the stadium group) just say so and have done with it. Don’t have people in  a professional capacity (owner/general manager etc) saying they will be announced the day after and then not doing so, that shows an element of distrust when as a club I’d love us all - fans, staff, players, various supporters groups - to work together. There’s I believe 12 people working in the office, it takes 10 seconds to tweet the figure the following day.

    Secondly, why are some people so concerned with the attendance? Well on a similar theme the club recently posted about Will Jubb being the 6th most capped Knights player. This is not to take away from Jubb’s achievement, he’s been a true professional for us and does some great things on and off the pitch. But are we all concerned about milestones? How’s about shirt numbers, is that really important other than to the ref? Try scorers - as long as we win does it matter who’s scored? For me I like to hear and see all that stuff. We could probably ditch announcing everything and really streamline it, but then you lose a part of the match day experience. IMO of course. 

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  3. 56 minutes ago, Puk said:

    Was definitely a trip on Marsh wish Taii would run with his size and thought our three quarters were excellent today against a decent Sheffield back line.

    Any idea around what time the trip was? I’ve watched the entire second half on BBC iPlayer and haven’t spotted it, yet during the game I noticed the potential trip.

  4. 28 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:

    Think you mean Jason Bass, Chris Brass was the York City player manager in the early 2000s. 
     

    Fair play to him if he’s now doing a job in the back line for Sheffield Eagles though. 

    To be honest I wouldn’t mind Jon Parkin in the front row to give us a few more options!

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  5. My hopes: I’m not expecting a win but we need to compete against Sheffield and push them close. I hope music (be it via the brass band or on CD) is played before the match and during half time only. Hopefully the crowd is over 1000 (which gets announced). Lastly, no more injuries would do nicely 👌

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  6. 1 hour ago, Marrafan said:

    Perhaps Haven didn’t allow you to play your usual game hence the result. A bit of disrespect saying we only beat you because you were poor. On the day we were the better team on the park as you allude to saying we deserved the win. 

    Nowhere did I say Whitehaven only won because York were poor. In fact I didn’t even say York were poor, I said they were lethargic, didn’t seem up for it and the only people who did seem up for it were the Whitehaven players.

    Please also see my earlier comment straight after the game: ‘Whitehaven fully deserved that.’

    For the record Whitehaven were better all round. Kicked better, set themselves up better (why did we have a winger as centre), managed their players better (if a player is limping get him off). They supported breaks better (why whenever we make a break is it the likes of Jordan Thompson in support), defended better, ran better lines and had we snatched it at the end we wouldn’t have deserved it. 

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  7. The most excitement I had today was when I got one of those wooden stirrers from the catering stuck under my nail, blooming hurts does that! 
     

    Things just seemed lethargic today - the players strangely didn’t seem up for it, the stewards didn’t seem up for it (top tip: when all 3 turnstiles are blocked with fans clearly needing assistance, maybe approach and ask the problem and help where needed). The officials were all over the place and might as well have come out of the bar.
     

    The band doesn’t work playing during the match, and I’m a huge music lover. And please can we leave music over the PA to half time. I’m not sure we need Fat Les/Vindaloo being played while a player is down injured. 
     

    The only group who seemed up for it today was the 1-17 from Whitehaven. 

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