Eddie

There is merit in having a ground slightly too small, as people see tickets as a great thing to have and buy them early. I’d wager that if your ground was 5k bigger there’d have been fewer tickets sold for the Broncos game at this stage.

TRL Forum would be good, after all that’s what we are.

There’s a lot of people on this forum who spend a lot of time taking about what ‘we’ should be doing to expand the game, hopefully some of them will be happy to chip a few quid in each month. Its really not a lot individually to many people but if there are 15-20 people involved it would make a massive difference to a club.

I’d be happy to put a fiver a month in.

A few more than I’d expected.

458 car and 7 coach spaces should be more than enough for Sheffield FC or the Eagles, with other people using public transport or walking, and cars having multiple people travelling to the match in them a crowd of 2000 wouldn’t need more spaces than that. If the Eagles ever get attendances like that again they’ll be doing very well.

The Union club only averaged 1,886 this season and they’re supposedly a top championship club looking to get into the top flight. I feel sure Donny RL could better that after a couple of good seasons in the championship.

I can see how you might see it that way but an alternative view is that those changes show the lack of a plan. The dates moving around has been a hindrance (having to look up what month the final is in every year isn’t a great look for the sport’s premier cup competition) and bringing in different broadcasters shows a lack of continuity or ability to seal a longer term tv contract also. I do like the 1895 cup concept though.

What have the RFL been doing to arrest the decline of the Challenge Cup? Serious question btw.

Hull KR v Salford N/A Leeds v Saints 8,000 Wigan v Sheffield 5,000 Huddersfield v Hull 2,500 Leigh v Fev 3,500 Batley v Cas N/A Wire v London 5,000 Halifax v Catalans 1,500

Fair enough, I just cancel online and they get in touch offering a too good to refuse deal.

Like Fev did, if it works it’s great but if it doesn’t it’s hideous, and winning/losing in the championship play offs is a very fine margin.

She was probably amazed anyone orders a Sky package over the phone in 2024.

Did Sky say they’d be showing every NRL game?

Quality player, one who I’d tune in to watch when he was at Salford, I’d love him to come back to SL.

Are you in the Balkan super league?

Football teams being galvanised after being relegated are too many to name, particularly for some reason when they drop into non league, though of course some teams have withered and died when the same happened to them.

Ha ha yes

The parochial quota, all clubs must be within 3 miles of an M62 junction.

They’d better hope no more teams fold in the next two seasons.

Welcoming applications for an 11th league one team is a good laugh. Would this new team be expected to pay all the away teams costs, and asked not to enter the 1895 cup?

It never says 586ml in a pub though, always a pint or half.

Yes but the EU enforced sales in metric, like a quarter of sweets became (the marginally smaller) 200g.

Yes fair enough the EU did force that and it hasn’t changed back. But no I don’t think it’s had any impact whatsoever on attendances.

Brexit has nothing to do with it, older people tend to use imperial measurements, younger people increasingly use metric. I like our archaic use of the imperial system.