This Thursday we will be holding our 1st Curry Night in association with Shimla Spice, for all fans not going to Dewsbury. Be among your Cougar fans in the comfort of The Diamond Suite to cheer on our boys.
Bar opens 6.30pm with Curry being served just before K/O.
Curry, rice & naan plus 1 pint (or equivalent) for just £10.
To reserve your place please call the office on 606044 as places are limited.

Thanks, Helen

Shame that i am going to miss out on a curry because i am supporting the boys by going to Dewsbury, they can hear you better in the flesh rather than from fifteen or so miles away shouting at a screen. The ten pounds spent could have been used for entrance fee

I still hope it go's well, it is the second best thing to being at dewsbury (money behind the bar and all that)

some people work late or have family commitments and maybe can't afford the time to get there,so getting down to cougar park is next best thing as I fall in to the above that particular night, spoke to Helen yesterday and she said that 45 were booked in, thursdaynight isn't good for quite a few by the looks of things.

45 booked in.
Thats just about a coach load of fans, that could maybe go and watch the game over there.

Wasn't there some mention, of the club trying to get a coach or two so people could go to watch the game?

I like a lot of things the club is doing, but i must admit this isn't a good idea.

I think it would have been better. To try and get as many people as possible to go to the game.

This is a great chance to show people that the two clubs have good support, home and away.

Lets really hope the when the return game happens, Dewsbury do not do anything to keep there fans at there ground.

More positivity there then I see....

The whole point of the exercise is that the club is open for all those who can't get to Dewsbury on a Thursday Night , through work & other commitments .

I'm lucky my boss has been great and is allowing me to go when I need to in order to get to the game ( bearing in mind I wouldn't normally be done till 6pm at the earliest ) but my other half who has yet to miss a match this year is unable to do the same and will be happily trundling along to watch the game at CP , no doubt consuming copius amounts of alcohol in the process, all good profit for the club.

Yes putting a bus on would have been great , but this does not alter the fact that most of those watching back at the club , would still have been watching the game on Sky regardless of there being a bus or not.Far better that the club takes the chance to put a few quid in the coffers and make an 'occasion' of it .

that's the point I was trying to make Rachel, I know what your saying jim but think the club have been pro active on this occasion, I'm sure those who are going to curry night have a valid reason for not going so at least they can put some money in the clubs coffers this way.

Great way to stifle debate Rach.

Sorry but believe it or not, people me included do not have to say everything the club does is great.



Rach my point exactly. A bus could leave at 6.45 and still get to Dewsbury in time for the kick off. So people who are working late could still have seen the game.
Some people are always going to miss a game because of work that can happen on a Sunday.



There is a much bigger 'occasion' coming up. That's the return game at home against Dewsbury.
Now lets say we made the effort, as a club to get one or maybe two coach's.
Maybe just maybe Dewsbury could have been persuaded to do the same.

If we did the same deal as Dewsbury are doing
90 people paying £10 to watch the game= £900
Never mind how much more those people would spend in the bar.

How much money will the people having the curry, going to have to put in to get that return?

If Dewsbury who have been very proactive for this game. Decide to try and keep there fans at there ground to watch the game. How much will we as a club stand to lose.


And more important than that, is how the ground looks when the SKY cameras are there.

i know it depends on what type of job you have but I would have thought with a bit of forward planning (This fixture was after all decided many months ago) that many people could plan around in those months in between, myself included who tends to work late most days, but planned accordingly for this one. Usually, where there is a will there is a way.

Well there isn't a home game until the 28th June so I assume that the pitch will have been grassed/turfed where the soccer players have worn it away.

And if it has been dry perhaps a hosepipe or two may not go amiss in keeping the dust down.

Sorry for being "NEGATIVE" again

See both points of view here,but being a supporter who goes to both home and away games,sky or not i would still be going to Dewsbury like the usual bunch and i'd like to think a good few more,come on Cougars!

I think like Av bulls won in that forward planning the key that being said I see the benfit for those unable for whatever reason. Not being funny but its not like Dewsbury is that far but each to their own.

We will be there as usual. Come on the cougars.

Dewsbury are laying on free buses to take their fans to Lawkholme Lane.

I think the fact Dewsbury are providing free buses for their fans is a really good thing I thought we had looked at this as a joint venture with Dewsbury what hapened?

For the past couple of months dewsbury were paying for keighley fans to come to tonights game and keighley were paying for coaches for dewsbury fans to go to the reverse fixture in july, we at dewsbury promoted this over a month ago to our fans and already had some booked in, only to find out this week that keighley didn't want to do it anymore, therefore we had to cancel the 3, 4 maybe 5 buses we would have had going. Seems a strange decision by keighley to us at dewsbury, oh and then we find out that they are having a curry night encouraging fans to watch the game on tv.

Keighley you have it wrong somewhere???? And it is negative because it is. Loosing all interest. Glad there isnt a game today.

please don't loose interest pal, it's not the players fault we need people on those terraces.

That's not really a fair reflection.

I don't believe that anyone stopped away from the game because of this promotion.

As it happens I took the wife to 'Spoons and we both had a curry and a pint for £9.98, then I went to a club that sells cheaper beer than Cougar Park to watch the game and saved money on a taxi, so it wasn't such a good deal on offer anyway.

It was obvious that there would be a number of fans who could not make the game or who might (like myself) be going to a pub to watch the game come what may. They were merely trying to entice those people to Cougar Park to put a few penny's behind the bar.

I will probably do the same for the return fixture.

OK!

I'll bite!!!

Whose fault is it then?

You fancy me.



you must do, the only time you post is when I've posted, I feel like I'm being stalked!!

All I'm saying is that somewhere down the line for whatever reason the coaches for fans thing didn't happen! Is that the teams fault? I don't honestly know what went wrong with the idea all I'm saying is people like goosey saying they're loosing interest and instead goband watch Halifax isn't going to help the lads on OUR pitch is it? I've seen many cougars fans come and go , fortunately I will always attend and support Our team.

Fair comment.

I will admit I misunderstood your post!

Thankyou

Andrew been to nearly all home and away matches for a few seasons now, think the lads are wonderful considering they get very little for thier efforts. Just think that if we are promoting the game of rugby to the people of Keighley when we play on telly we should arrange something to show what a good time is had by fans. Free bus that night would have enticed a few I am sure. We all went in fancy dress and took two car loads. Just think that wasnt a good idea a free bus would have been better.

Sorry but Halifax game was a thriller.

you must have known you were going to get somebodys back up by saying you were loosing interest and glad we haven't got a game! Be better putting your point accross a little more diplomatically next time.