I attend all home games but I have considered not going. £25 to watch us lose to SL team who will bring no support, we won’t have many supporters. No atmosphere. I struggle to see what the attraction of this game is. Also SL have killed off the excitement on the Challenge Cup. It just an ‘also have to play’ competition as they all focus on the grand final as the most important thing to win.

I can certainly empathise - seems you lot are now where we were a few years back. That cup draw is a stinker. If I were Eastmond I'd be worried about risking my threadbare squad in such a game. It's hardly the sort of match to get people enthused is it?

Not getting a match day sponsor sums up the whole sorry state of affairs. We're skint before the season starts ...... I'm guessing season ticket sales were poor?

I've said before that the club should have gone into administration and dropped down to League 1, otherwise they'll forever be chasing debt repayments. The Championship will be a basket case anyway this season with nothing to play for on the pitch because everything is decided off it, and the irony of being in League 1 is that there's promotion to play for!

We have something to for. Avoid relegation!

Exactly !!

I honestly can't think of a worse draw we could have had but if you listen to people on TotalRL its a great draw that should attract a huge crowd.

The whole idea of having Super League clubs come in at an earlier stage and make them play away was to give the lower opposition the home tie and give them a chance of getting some much needed funds in.

Unfortunately they forgot about Catalans having low away support and even more unfortunately we got them when it’s freezing in winter.

That is sheer bad luck. That said, the club have done next to nowt to promote the game. Not good enough!

Promote the game to who?

Much of the games on it’s booty, no ones interested including the vast majority of people in Halifax and Calderdale, as an indicator there’s as many on here who won’t be going as will be and were long time die hard supporters so what does that tell us about the rest?

I would agree with both, the promotion of the game has been really, really bad but also interest from die hard fans looks to be really low as well. The problem is that the club has to find a way to bring new fans in, people who have either no, or little, interest in the game and to try and get them hooked. Pushing the club to the same people will always have the same results.

This is a game where kids should be in for free but instead the cheapest child ticket is £5 and its only this week freebies went out to community clubs but its only free entry if the person has a season ticket. Adult tickets were also sent out at £14 which I think is about right for this game anyway. The young adult pricing is ridiculous full stop and I think we have discussed it on here. Expecting 16-18 year olds to pay £16 to watch a game is totally unrealistic and its why the kids going to games will rarely turn in to adults that go to games.

I've argued all along that the attendance charge is way too high and the sport as a whole needs to address the issue.