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1 hour ago, preid said:
4,182 (TRL match report). To be honest, at just 5,100 capacity, I thought this would/should sellout with Huddersfield and Wigan supporters plus Dewsbury and Batley neutrals especially given the novelty aspect.
Take a club out of its home town and you will get lower attendances. 4,000 for a big Lancashire team is probably as much as they could expect.
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Just now, Chrispmartha said:
Yep, really missing the Friday night games
Yeah the spread of Leeds fixtures the past couple of years, away from Friday nights has been really bad.
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This is the future you're asking for.
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14,306 for Leeds vs Wire, a couple of thousand up on last year. So this and the last couple of crowds have been ok but I know the people at Headingley are delighted to get back to Friday night games after too many games on Saturdays this year.
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18 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
He's a West Yorkshire lad, very noticeable whenever a W.Y. team play one from tother side of the big hill.
This may be a difficult concept for our friends from the rainy side of the Pennines to understand but people from Wakey and Cas are not likely to have huge bias towards Leeds.
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It was obvious two minutes ago that there would never be sufficient proof to overturn the grounding call. Absolute waste of time.
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If the obstructed players were only in a position to be near the attacking line due to being offside at the play the ball what's the ruling?
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How can Kendall not give that decision given where he was standing.
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1 hour ago, Pulga said:
I don't think you understand the first thing about Rugby League in London.
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22 hours ago, whatmichaelsays said:
Leeds is in a difficult position when you compare it to Greater Manchester because it often doesn't find many friends within its neighbouring councils and local authorities. I'm pretty sure this is largely why Brabin has to cosy up to Bradford to get broader support for the WY Tram
It's a bit weird to frame it in the way you have; Brabin isn't the Mayor of Leeds, she's the Mayor of West Yorkshire.
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2 hours ago, RigbyLuger said:
The Brian Bevan lads are great, on the flip side!
I listen to Eddie & Stevo's podcast just because I nostalgically like the sound of their voices but, even though it's devoted to a team I don't support, WW Brian Bevan Say is the only other UK RL podcast I can listen to. Literally every other one I've tried has multiple annoying aspects, I don't know if I'm just too picky but there always seems to be some irritating presentation, instantly annoying characters/voices or general ignorance that drives me away from the others.
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8 minutes ago, Pulga said:
The Dolphins leave off the geographic identifier then London only use the geographic identifier.
I'd be trusting the Dolphins ability to brand a team over London.
Brisbane/SE Queensland and London could hardly be more different in the visibility and awareness of Rugby League, it'd be foolish to think they need the same branding and marketing approach.
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Does anyone know anything about there being major engineering works on the East Coast Main Line, towards the London end, on 25th October? That would have a major effect on anyone trying to get to the first test from Yorkshire.
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1 hour ago, The Masked Poster said:
They didn't sell CP 30 years ago mate, it was well into the full time SL era. I remember attending a game there in at least 1999. (I think)
Re read that Jack Robinson era, for all their success (and it was a lot greater than Bradford's) they were perilously close to being in the do-do.
They were mooting the idea of playing in Bolton for instance, do you think things would have turned out so well if they had ended up doing that?
Differentiating between pre and post-SL is useful if you want to exclude Wigan and Leeds from any "living beyond their means" discussion but the reality is that the reasons, motivations and, too often, end results are the same. Clubs make optimistic assumptions or rely on continued/an uptick in on-field performance or hope that something will just turn up.
Almost all clubs in the leagues have been through this at some point so pointing fingers at Bradford's past performance in particular doesn't make sense. The question is whether they now have the financial backing to make a go of it. And we don't 100% know the answer to that.
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48 minutes ago, Damien said:
We do exactly this when we choose to open up the top tier of the North Stand at Old Trafford. You just dismissed it because it doesn't suit the narrative.
It's just untrue though. The top tier of OT is always category 5 and they are the same price as the cheapest tickets on sale throughout the year. They don't introduce a new ticket category when they open up those seats.
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27 minutes ago, FearTheVee said:
But who are you annoyed on behalf of to the extent that you would call the promotion of this event "dishonest" (a fairly pointed accusation)? Nobody who has bought tickets is screaming that they want to sit in worse seats than were available when they bought theirs in return for a tenner back, or is complaining that they have been swindled by dishonest practices as far as I can tell from any feedback anywhere.
The issue all just seems a bit manufactured. I would imagine that the vast majority of early buyers are looking at it saying "glad I'm not sitting up there but if they can sell those tickets and boost the crowd, fair play".
It's not really a question of being annoyed on behalf of people. It's mostly disappointing that, even with Moran involved, they have reached for the 'reduce prices' lever when the prices were already cheap. We had hoped they had moved beyond that and were going to do some genuine promotion and marketing for this game. Hopefully they will try and do both.
On the principle of the thing I don't really care and yes, they aren't seats which were previously available so it's not that bad. But all the fanfare about priority ticket window etc and very specific announced price ranges didn't give a hint that there would be cheaper tickets later on. Sharp practice or not, it's certainly wasn't totally transparent.
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20 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:
But they had much more central funding, 18k+ crowds in SL, were winning trophies and all the corporate benefits that go with it, yet went bust.
Why and how will they fare better now?
No clubs in SL make money. You can question whether Bradford's stadium is up to it or if they can assemble a decent team but financial problems years in the past are irrelevant really, as is whether they are currently loss or profit making. What matters is if they have the backers to cover losses (and I believe they have some people in place).
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5 minutes ago, WN83 said:
Yeah, there are plenty of reasons for optimism IMO.
They need to sort things like that out in regards the seating map. I noticed a block that were keyed as though 90% would be Green (£45) and 10% Blue (£30) but when you click in it, they're all £30 tickets. It's block 117 when I've just checked.
Is this an indication of them changing the pricing of seats in certain blocks? Or just incompetence?
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Minimum standards typically talk about capacity, covered seats, pitch size. They don't - and can't really - try to measure levels of decrepitude. That's more a council safety officer sort of thing.
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40 minutes ago, RBKnight said:
Which is exactly what the Game Caller did last year, announcing how "confident" the Bulls were of their superior (presumably self-estimated) score, only to announce his disappointment later when the real score turned out rather lower than expected
I'd hope the clubs have access to more robust information than a clown on the internet.
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4 hours ago, Hopie said:
Specifically he says their "live" score is over 14 and they are trying to get to 15.
Wasn't the idea of a "live" score debunked?
Clubs can work on calculating their own scores which I guess is what they mean.
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2 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:
Honestly, I'm fed up with this focus on RU players. If I was a young RL player in the LJL - and there ard some - I'd be massively disappointed to hear Eccles bang on about RU converts like that.
To be fair he was specifically asked about RU in the question.
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4 hours ago, Anita Bath said:
Kevvie will be the new titans coach……sometime this week……I hope!
I've seen rumours of this - they have to be a joke, right?
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Ugh when did clubs decide putting the ref's audio up instead of commentary was a good idea?