The Masked Poster

Hopefully a Cas win

Pathetic attendance from Huddersfield.

It's everything to do with Bradford - you hate them and still would if they were playing at the Nou Camp in front of 100k. Which I could sort of understand if your own club hadn't been a complete basket case for most of the previous 30 years. But yes, good times eh?

You're entitled to your opinion. Just like I'm entitled to go and watch a band and declare how rubbish they are without ever having had the nerve to get up on stage myself. And saying the guitar player is useless despite not being able to play a chord myself. Rather like Huddersfield fans with an embarrassing '4k' attendance on a Easter weekend slagging off Bradford for getting 15k. Or do you get a pass as your fans may be small in number but they are 'passionate'? I recently said that I wished Huddersfield well but I have changed my mind as they are an embarrassment and never going to be an asset to Rugby League. Time to get rid of them - and their 400 fans.

Another obsessive. It wasn't that long ago opposition coaches were complaining about sitting on plastic seats at Bell Vue. And it could easily go back to that given a change of ownership or something. Stop crowing because you're in a better place currently, it's ridiculous.

I'm wondering the same. It's a bit strange.

Give it a rest eh? You don't make yourself very likeable with this obsession against Bradford. What exactly are Huddersfield going to bring to the table? Not a lot. Until they are generating any crowds of note maybe keep your head down, it's not a good look.

Right, so what does *not* exploring space solve in regard to the state of the world? Zero. If anything it should remind us that we aren't even specks of dust in the atmosphere. Why did any species of man you can think of (Cro Mag, Neanderthal etc) leave their caves? Because we are an inquisitive species. If I want to put my entire life savings on a horse tomorrow it doesn't affect you in the slightest. Yet you could argue that I could have fed X starving people with that money. The world doesn't work like that.

Very well put. I think a lot of this was down to the perception that "England are rubbish so what's the point?" that seemed to be prevalent amongst football fans and the wider public. I don't think the '3 Lions effect'* can be overestimated here. Real or delusional it gave people the belief that England were just a step away from winning a major trophy again. And, alongside the birth of the Premier League this helped propel football out of it's largely working class base to the more affluent classes. There had been glamorous clubs like Chelsea and flamboyant players like Charlie George or Alan Hudson but they had never really connected with the wider public in the way that Beckham etc did. (Let's not forget Beckham was an unknown kid in 1996) *If there is such a phrase as the 3 Lions Effect, I'm copyrighting it

I don't think they're playing until midnight mate.

If you look back to the late 80's/Early 90's England often had less than full houses. I might be misremembering this but I'm sure there was one that had a very low crowd of around 15K? After the 96 Euros things changed and football became trendy. It wasn't always like this and celebrity fans or owners like Elton John were the exception rather than the norm. But it's been catapulted into another level and that doesn't really look like changing.

Quite some career that! Hats off to him and RIP

Exactly, it’s not just one thing. Things become bigger things by a series of different factors, not all obviously connected. Those lads I mentioned aren’t going to stop watching football all of a sudden but then darts doesn’t present itself like that. It seems to be giving an image of “this is fun, join in if you want”. Not abandon your other pastimes and commit yourself seriously or don’t bother. Which is how a lot of RL fans think should be the approach…I know because that’s how I used to think,

Well if RL ever gets into the same stratosphere as F1, then I’d die a happy man. If you’re suggesting that F1 doesn’t have any fans, I suggest you try getting tickets to the next GP. And the point is that it’s showing that you can increase the popularity of something by making it entertaining, accessible and generating news stories. NB I don’t watch Darts or F1.

I always thought it was a group called ‘Highly Likely’ that sung the theme tune? Although there’s nothing to suggest they weren’t just a bunch of session musicians….