There really is no excuse then is there?

We're a small town. Don't forget what your crowds were slipping to last year? Your fans didn't wanna know. Only reason they do is due to the cheapness of the tickets. In fact, I dread to think how poor your crowds would be this year without the offer you lot have.


Will the boos ring round the Grattan on Sunday after another defeat?

Make your mind up





Naah

Make my mind up about what?

Either population is an excuse or it isn't?

Honestly Kevin McCloud probably wonders why he ever bothered!

To an extent. We'll never be able to get 15K+ crowds due to the size of the area for example.

And the size of the ground.

There are plenty of excuses, but none should wash. Regardless of what many think, Castleford has a large catchment area, and I suspect when the new stadium is built, the crowds will increase dramatically.

As previously posted though, the fact that Bradford fans feel the need to take a pop at a "village" team's attendances when they're artificially propping their own up just illustrates how miserable being a Bulls fan must be these days.

Still, any small victory is still a victory isn't it? Hopefully you can start getting some on the pitch soon.

Can we have another few barrels, the fish are spilling over

There you go then Championship material.

A suburb of Wakefield.

No, not really; should it?

Wait. Is this one of those threads where the posters spout all manner of childish bile and then a little while later they realise how pathetic they sound so attempt to make themselves feel better by saying silly phrases like "owned", "whoosh" and "got another bite" etc?

I'm serious. I'd like to see an Irish team brought in instead as an expansion club.

Er, yes.






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Er, no. but it's become quite an amusing one

Only 100% record left in Super League,

Super League material and unlike yourselves, top 8 material.

Maybe you would care to think that one through again?

You'll be unstoppable after the merger then and will have a decent gate to watch it.

That'll make room for an Irish or Lebanese Expansion team which is important if the game is to grow outside of the M62.

Will be interesting to see 'crowd' at Crusaders tonight

Low levels of home support, plus zero away following

Well, I stand corrected

Crowd given as 3,517, which is actually a very decent effort. Up by about 50% from their attendance against us, and with presumably almost no away support

Happy to be proved wrong - well done to the Crusaders

Finally we agree! Now if you'd collect your belongings and make your way to the Championship we'll say no more about it!

1500 tickets given away.

Better to give away 1500 tickets in the hope that some will pay next time rather then do nothing and get no extra fans for the next game.

Wasn't dissing the idea.

Just see what their crowds are when they don't allow 50% of their gate in for nothing.

Whatever the figure turns out to be it should be bigger than it might have been had they not done some marketing. I don't think they have any option but to encourage fans, by what ever means they decide will work best. I think many of the older clubs are doing 'deals' of one kind or another anyway so I guess we need to qualify most club's gates.

Lebanese expansion is soo last year. And they are not even in Europe (ESL!). Russian expansion is they way forward. After the world cup the landscape will be littered with unused 40,000 seater stadia. We could either expand into Russia or ship over a few stadia and give them to established clubs!