London – 9,750,500.
Birmingham – 2,453,700.
Manchester – 1,903,100.
Glasgow – 1,057,600.
Newcastle – 837,500.
Sheffield – 818,800.
Liverpool – 793,100.
Leeds – 761,500.

Made the top-8. They'll take that this year

Quote ="Willzay"London – 9,750,500. Birmingham – 2,453,700. Manchester – 1,903,100. Glasgow – 1,057,600. Newcastle – 837,500. Sheffield – 818,800. Liverpool – 793,100. Leeds – 761,500.'" The population of the actual city of Manchester is 510,000 https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... mbh5kbTV5M The population you quote must be Greater Manchester which is a county. Population of Sheffield is 518,000 Leeds 701,000 https://www.ukpopulation.org/leeds-population/

Quote ="Willzay"London – 9,750,500. Birmingham – 2,453,700. Manchester – 1,903,100. Glasgow – 1,057,600. Newcastle – 837,500. Sheffield – 818,800. Liverpool – 793,100. Leeds – 761,500.'" The population of the actual city of Manchester is 510,000 https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... mbh5kbTV5M The population you quote must be Greater Manchester which is a county. Population of Sheffield is 518,000 Leeds 701,000 https://www.ukpopulation.org/leeds-population/

Quote ="majorhound"The population of the actual city of Manchester is 510,000 https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... mbh5kbTV5M The population you quote must be Greater Manchester which is a county. Population of Sheffield is 518,000 Leeds 701,000 https://www.ukpopulation.org/leeds-population/'" how long did you traw.l google for articles that support your opinion? (whilst ignoring those that don't).

Quote ="majorhound"The population of the actual city of Manchester is 510,000 https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... mbh5kbTV5M The population you quote must be Greater Manchester which is a county. Population of Sheffield is 518,000 Leeds 701,000 https://www.ukpopulation.org/leeds-population/'" how long did you traw.l google for articles that support your opinion? (whilst ignoring those that don't).

It's not an opinion it's a fact. Whatever. Leeds is far and away the largest city in Rugby League. And while it still has no Premiership soccer team, is fertile ground for Rugby League. The Headingley complex is far and away superior to anything else RL has to offer. Always has been. I remember the first time I went to Central Park, I was expecting a Wigan version of Headingley, it was, even then, a dump. Of the RL test grounds from my youth, Central Park, Fartown, Station Road, are no more and Odsal is and always has been a joke, Headingley is the one survivor which can still claim to be worthy of international football.

got to laugh at blinkered Whino fans.

Enjoy the rest of your season, hope you turn it around.

Might be the largest city but average attendance per population they are about where hudds and Wakefield are

Regards

King James

using that measure Fev are the best supported team in RL

You have to be wary to go back and coach the team where you were regarded as a legend. It might not be right for the individual or the club.

James Lowes at Bradford - I'll forever idolise the bloke as a player for us but he isn't made to be a first team coach. He's an able assistant.

Keiron Cunningham - Another hooking legend. I'm not a Saints fan so I don't know how conflicted they are about his legacy given he was one of the greatest players to wear their shirt, but as a coach he appears to be even worse than Lowes.

Kevin Sinfield clearly has quite a lot upstairs to compliment his fantastic playing career, so perhaps he'll go ok, but it's a risk.

that is why he has Lowes to blame things on.

Sinfield won with his ability to con the officials a number of times.

Yes that's why Sinfield had such a great career, by conning officials - give your head a shake.

I'm not saying he wasn't a very talented player, just pointing out one of those talents was practically ref'ng the game. Ask any none Leeds fan, him and Burrow constantly bleated to officials.

Absolute tosh, any none Leeds fans are hardly an unbiased source are they especially as Sinfield led Leeds to many Grand Finals wins against their teams.

You do realise Sinfield was captain and allowed to talk to the officials don't you.

talk, yes, bleat, no.

Anyway, it doesn't matter now, he's DOR with a stooge coach to blame if it goes wrong (which I hope it doesn't).

Lowes a legend at Bradford
Sinfield a legend at Leeds

BUT
Hanley was a legend at Wigan, as was Gregory
Schofield a legend at Leeds
Crooks at Leeds & Hull

where are they all now?

Good luck to Leeds, seems you have a rebuilding phase (not just the stadium), I expect Hull to be in the same position in 2020.

Its easy to support a winning side and be all high and mighty when your club is performing well.

I'm hoping Leeds end up in the m8s and struggle a bit. Hetherington will then miraculously change his opinion on the restructure.

Those Leeds fans that think they will walk the m8s if they end up there better wake up quick. In the very 1st m8s we walked it, the following year we were relegated with arguably a better team on paper. Leeds have an injury crisis and are on a losing streak. Not good signs at all.

reality is not welcome, believe the myth that the Leeds fans do.

They sing a football song, tells you everything.

Maybe in Leeds "Rugbys coming home"

(you can't doubt their loyalty though, must be tough to travel from Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield to join a bandwagon, only to find the wheels have come off and the conductor is blaming everyone else)

Can you please give an example of Sky treating RL poorly?


Union has always been much bigger then League and has had a huge pot to spend.

The coverage on Sky is very poor. There’s very little thought or effort put into it and clearly the coverage isn’t critiqued or reviewed within Sky because...well...Terry O’Connor.

The BBC coverage blows Sky out of the water.

Sky’s coverage of Catalans games are amateurish and worse than FreeSports coverage of Toronto.

There is little to no advertising or pushing of RL on Sky’s channels or its entire platform.

Regardless of how much or little they pay for the rights, the coverage should (and could easily) be better.

why? the product is amateur, look at the officials and the declining crowds, the RFL are getting exactly what they deserve, Sky pay more for Fishing programmes because more people watch them. Nobody is jumping over hurdles to advertise during RL games because it's a dour borefest coached by ex forwards.

So, no actual facts here, just an opinion, to which you are entitled.

Can you provide proof that little thought or effort goes into it? What are you expecting to see?

For Terry O'Connor in RL there are countless piundits across skys sports coverage who are either not great at presenting or are there to deliberately state controvertial issues. Part of the issue, IMO is not the quality of ToC its how he comes across. Unfortunately the broad northern accent is not commonly heard on TV. John Wells comes over well as his accent is softer and less "to the point".

There is plenty of advertising of future sky games, so that is an incorrect statement. I am guessing here, but if you only watch RL on Sky, then no doubt you will miss the adverts for RL which occur when they are showing Tennis / Football / Cricket etc.

Can't have a dig at Sky for the Catalans games, that coverage is provided by Canal+.

But the question remines, what are you expecting to see, what, in your opinion would make it better?

One improvement all sports broadcasters could make is to avoid showing the coach on the bench / in the stands or the face of someone in the crowd, whent the game is still in progress!!!!

London, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne are definitely bigger than scabby Leeds.

I have done a quick search and cannot find any data to say how much Sky pay for fishing, could you please provide a link as I would be interested to know if its more then £90m they agreed to pay RL over 5 years.

big


Haha
...the old "big club" nonsense!!!

Its a subjective and not relevant thing which some like to pontificate.

Third biggest city???? Depends on whether you going on metropolitan areas or city boundies. Many a list of populations for Leeds include places like Rothwell, Pudsey, Garforth, Morley etc.
The Leeds Urban Sub Division had a population of 474,632 in 2011, the metropolitan district has a popution of around 715k.

Still, what does it matter the size of the city you play in. Afterall, if that was the key criteria to sporting success, then all football premier league champions would hail from London, rather than some north west back water.

Headlingley has been in need for a few quid spending on it for a long time. The frequent reductions in capacity of the old southstand, the uncomfortable seats with little leg room in the Northstand and no covered standing for visiting fans made it a relic of a place. Fair play, the south and north stands are being done. Do you think for one minute that decision was made by GH or the rhinos?

If the potential for Leeds is huge, I have some disappointing news for you. They had 10 years plus of unpresedently success. If they didnt harness that success to draw out the potential then, they are not going to do it with a declining team.

What a puzzling comment. Who on earth else would make the decision?
The only other party involved was Yorkshire who Leeds had been patiently waiting to stop being a financial basketcase for years so the north stand could be done. The South Stand project, which Leeds are mostly paying for out of their own cash reserves, was slightly contingent on what got agreed for the other side.

Like Hanley, Edwards and Gregory did perhaps.