I don't think I've heard anything about this from the club. With the club playing away most Leeds fans won't have any other RL to watch locally but there's been nothing on email or social media about getting down to the stadium to attend. Seems a bit odd given the £££ they could make.

Would also have expected a SL club season holder special ticket offer too.

It's nothing to do with Leeds or Super League. The RFL have hired the ground from Leeds and are running it independently just as if it was at Blackpool therefore Leeds nor SL have the authority to sell tickets.

Come on, Leeds are an RFL member club and the hosts for the weekend. They absolutely have the ability to promote this event to their membership and sell tickets for it. The RFL certainly aren't stopping them, even if it's not via the regular home ticket sales website then on a similar basis to away games.

They put more effort into promoting the boxing that was on than they have into this. Hell I've had more emails from them about ***ing netball than this event.

They are not hosts for the weekend, Leeds Rhinos are nothing to do with Summer Bash, it is a rented stadium, simple.

Leeds promoted Josh Warrington as a Leeds lad and Vice President of the Leeds Rhinos Foundation, more than the actual boxing event and they never actually sold the tickets, just put a couple of articles out about how to buy them. Leeds Rhinos Netball are a part of the Leeds Rhinos entity therefore they are always going to promote them.

Summer Bash is nothing to do with Leeds Rhinos, and the staff frankly have enough to do.

The amount of time and effort the club put into winning this suggests the opposite.

So, apart from all the club's back-office and gameday staff working on the event and being there all weekend and the ticket office dealing with all the day-of-game and late-delivery ticketing it's nothing to do with them. Righty-oh!

What has changed since the Championship Grand Final the club hosted several years ago when they did promote to the fanbase?

You would have thought they would have thrown out a few social media posts advertising it, even if its simply to help fill the ground as good publicity for the stadium.

Who knows if it's coincidence or not but... finally they have come alive on this! https://twitter.com/leedsrhinos/status/ ... 3sWQBBBClQ

Who knows if it's coincidence or not but... finally they have come alive on this! https://twitter.com/leedsrhinos/status/ ... 3sWQBBBClQ

They will have all the bar sales and i'm pretty sure the club shop will be open

I'm thinking of popping down on the Saturday, there's some good games on then. Anyone know if you can pass in and out of the stadium?

Quote ="The Ghost of '99"I'm thinking of popping down on the Saturday, there's some good games on then. Anyone know if you can pass in and out of the stadium?'" Pass Out System A pass out system will be in place at Gate C, to leave and re-enter you must receive a handstamp when leaving. Upon re-entry you must show both your exit handstamp and your ticket. Taken from this: https://www.therhinos.co.uk/2022/07/26/ ... mmer-bash/

Quote ="The Ghost of '99"I'm thinking of popping down on the Saturday, there's some good games on then. Anyone know if you can pass in and out of the stadium?'" Pass Out System A pass out system will be in place at Gate C, to leave and re-enter you must receive a handstamp when leaving. Upon re-entry you must show both your exit handstamp and your ticket. Taken from this: https://www.therhinos.co.uk/2022/07/26/ ... mmer-bash/

Was all set to go and then I saw this...


FFS how on earth does he keep getting a gig? Horrendous. Will have to retreat to the concourse at h/t and in between games (or out of the ground altogether).

And now Leeds have come up with a 50% off offer for members. Better late than never!

Let’s be honest . Promoting a day like this isn’t going to effect the numbers that much. Those in the know and who want to be there will be. Most neutrals or non rugby fans won’t be. Shouldn’t it be up up to the RFL to promote the event of they feel it’s worth it?

Not directly to Leeds fans, no.

I doubt it’s Leeds that have come up with this offer, the tickets are for Championship games, they are the Championship clubs tickets to sell. Maybe some Championship clubs didn’t want Leeds selling cheap tickets incase fans bought from Leeds instead of their Championship club.

That may be why it's come late in the day but i've been told this is a deal Leeds requested.

The Champ clubs should have been lobbying Leeds to sell tickets not the other way around, we’re not even playing.

But it comes back to being in Leeds' interests to maximise the crowds because we will be on a cut of the catering and the shop will obviously be open. And the larger the crowd the more chance it returns to Headingley in the future.

Pre Saturday lunch I saw a large group of fans walking through town and chanting we hate ? Dont know who it was ,but it wasnt we hate Leeds for once .I wonder if they got to the baah it looked like they were ready for a pub crawl

What colours were they wearing ?

All dressed incognito. Nothing to identify them . They looked to have walked up from the station and turned onto the Headrow

Just over 10,000 attended the Summer Bash.

Poor turnout but to be expected.

Headingley is a cracking venue when full but just didnt have the pull or feel of a weekend away at the coast at Blackpool for some fans.
Reading through some of the "reviews" from different fans the usual problems are flagged up.
*poor parking
*poor food options
*nothing in and around the ground
*poor access / walking distance to amenities in Headingley itself.
*Didnt have that "special" feeling of a big event - just popping on a bus into Leeds.

We went on the Saturday and tbh it was a bit flat all day, we kept bobbing up into Headingley but it was rammed out with Otley Runners and various teams had taken over the bars so everywhere was queuing like mad and in the case of Brewdog they drank them dry. It didnt seem that anyone outside of the Championship even knew this event was taking place so most of the bars were understaffed but I suppose thats just a normal Saturday up there. All in all we had a decent enough day but it didnt strike me as a big event, just a few games of RL bunged together last minute

Highlight of the weekend was my mate cracking on about Gawwy making him collect his tickets from the office and being too tight to post them out quite loudly outside the ticket office only to turn round and have the big man right there. to tell him "It saves us on postage costs!"

Never change Darth, never change.

These teams average 1-2,000 why does expect big numbers. The best supported team Bradford is now a basket case and its supporter base has evaporated this will be a big contributor to the lower numbers.