Eddie

Not enough variety is a big one for me, 12 teams is dull.

Thanks. How have you got these from League Express already?

Over half what the blokes got last week, impressive.

Not bad for their first game on a cold day.

Anyone know any of today’s Championship or L1 attendances? Not sure if I can wait until League Express arrives.

A good away support absolutely makes a match better, home games with no away fans are damp squibs

Didn’t see the game, but that seems a fairly respectable start, especially with no practice matches and playing away against strong opposition.

I bet Leeds wouldn’t sell out at the moment if your offered free tickets.

They don’t do a very good job of it then, picking Leeds and Wigan all the time.

Not stadium related but I’ve just been watching highlights of the 98 CC final on YouTube. I lived in Sheffield at the time and the Eagles were well known in the city, if not widely supported, but what’s surprising is how many Eagles fans are there and how noisy they are - there are thousands of them. Obviously what happened to them shortly after was shameful even by RL’s self-destructive standards, but even so there is definitely potential there if they can ever put a successful team together again.

How many Saints fans? Quite a few, even so a great crowd for Leeds these days.

I’ll have a shell suit and the lass in the away jersey please.

During the pandemic when the capacity was zero?

Probably pleased to see the ground full with a banging atmosphere, it’s not like that happens every week.

Why to the football team get precedence over the RL team, it’s not their ground is it?

Sky don’t pick games because of how full the ground looks.

Anyone know the Wigan attendance? If they announced it on tv I must have missed it.

Cornwall are featured on this week’s BBC RL Podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bybvrd

Yes they’re 98th best in the country who’ve also been in the top flight as recently as the 90s and will be back in the league soon enough. 10k in a local derby against another big ex-league side isn’t indicative of the 5th tier of football, just like 35k wasn’t in the Scottish 2nd division when Rangers were in it. However I fully agree that football is far and away the best supported game in the country that is incomparable to anything else.

You usually are a bit harsh but this week Leeds will do well to get 11,600 I reckon, and Wigan would be chuffed with 10,600. Two clubs who don’t seem capable of arresting their attendance decline while others (HKR, Cas and Saints) are increasing theirs.

Nottingham and it’s catchment area isn’t small, the city itself is over 300k and including suburbs the conurbation is around 700k. Nottingham RL are another club who should have been supported by the game and lot left to wither imho.

Thanks for that update, really concerning stuff.

Thanks. I’m surprised Rochdale’s was so low, all the others look ok though.

Anyone know any of the L1 attendances from yesterday yet?

Easy to use words like disgraceful from behind your laptop screen in Stevenage but what would you do to improve things that Wire (a progressive club) haven’t thought of?