Yeah but only because you have sod-all chance with your current squad, youth development and stadium

If we miss out on a franchise in the summer I will be straight on here to admit you are correct, can't see it though...

You are a flippin douche. Away crowds can not be measured. period.
Plonker.

Yes they can. At an increasing number of grounds it is possible to record the number of away fans (i.e. because they are usually allocated a particular stand) for example the KC Stadium, DW Stadium, Galpharm Stadium, The Stoop. If Saints and Salfords' new stadiums are all-seater you could also add these two.

What about grounds like leeds where anyone can walk round, wire where fans mingle, cas, same story, salford, ditto and so on

That's a very fair point. However, I'm sure that if the RFL included it as a strict criteria it could be easily enforced, e.g. 'All away supporters please use North Stand'. Okay this maybe wouldn't be ethically correct (e.g. because it could seem like unfair segregation) but I'm just saying it could be done in theory.

It really couldnt.
The way you could counter my point would be to say all tickets bought through a clubs shop count.. e.g. Warringtons a big town, its farrrr more hassle for me to get into warrington and buy a ticket than it is to jump on the nearest motorway and just drive to an away game, hell if you gave £4 discounts I still wouldnt bother as its just too much hassle to bother getting to the H.J. by week. Now, your problem in this instance is with Quins and so imagine their (albeit few) loyal supporters who would have to travel an hour to get to the ground and pick tickets up before a game. Its just not feasible

Wouldn't have to be done through ticketing, could just be pay-on-the-day, but have separate turnstiles for home & away fans?

Again, I'm now saying this would be totally feasible across the board, but I still feel strongly that clubs deserve some sort of credit through the assessment process if they contribute a large following to many away games.

Leeched their name, their colours, shame you couldn't leech some of their fans! I'll get over it when RU publicly apologies for apartheid type treatment of RL players over the decades.

hkr 38 leeds 28
under 20 hkr 48 leeds 28
under 18 hkr 48 featherstone 18

Have you been on the beer?

so you missed the decades where RU players were banned from playing RL (anyone remember the AN Other that was a regular on the team sheet?), where RL players were banned from playing even amateur RU, where clubs were banned from sharing RU grounds?



(ə-pärt'hīt', -hāt')•A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.

Oh JB.

You do make me smile sometimes with your nonsense.

Take away the ferrets and clogs,add jellied eels,we would look just like you.

you get the best jellied eels on the east coast of Norfolk actually mate !

If London have thousands of youth players, why aren't they going to games?

Rugby League- The Game That Got Away

on the video sharing site

Always wondered that as well tbf.

Do all kids that play football in west London go to Stamford Bridge every week.

No, because it is physically impossible for that to happen - Chelsea sell out their 40,000 capacity ground every home game, so that means that there are probably plenty of Chelsea-supporting kids who cannot get in to the games. With Quins though there is ample space for any of the RL-playing youngsters wishing to go.

To play devil's advocate (and run the risk of being called a union troll), all of the above was about preserving Union's amateur status. I think Union payed League the biggest compliment in 1995 when it went professional, realising that it would eventually lose all its best players to League unless it started paying up.

Shhh....you'll wake the self appointed defenders of the RL Faith posting such truths..

Cougars! Cougars!

Bu993r




BTW...

...No they don't

Oh I think they do...

The same reason they ain't around the M62. We're told this is the heartland of the sport. Therefore surely there are more kids playing across that vast expanse of the country than would fill the 11 SL stadia - and yet you still get empty seats at all of them!

Get a grip for christ's sake.