Flippin' 'eck! You can tell I haven't been on for a few days.

Why not? We are comparing Quins crowd against a team that doesnt bring more than 20 away fans, to our attendence against the same team. I would suggest that the Quins fans who attend now are just as die hard as us who go to the Shay. I think all this talk about attendences for Quins and Celtic are pointless (even though i have commented on it!!

) I think we need them in the top league. I would even go so far as getting the RLF to fund them centrally and get rid of the owners that could at any minute chose to close em down.. Take some money off the other SL clubs and put it towards them both. We need to keep developing the kids from these areas to make the game stronger nationaly.

can of worms.

Cue volley of dissention

Wales is Union and don't give a toss about RL and London is soccer and don't give a toss about RL. Maybe 3 further decades of wasted dosh and effort might .... just might .... make folk realise this.

Your right I am all for having a free market where we all go into each others areas poaching if that is what everyone agreed on but years ago there was a "gentlemans agreement" amongst clubs with borders we of course stuck to this other clubs did not. But as it now seems to be open season then I too say lets go for it. If you read my previous posts I do say if noone else bothers about activly pursuing other towns fans why should we?

Doesn't exist in Rugby League.

Granted it doesn`t now but it used to do.

Have no real problem with Bulls and Gianst coming in to Calderdale. However its the way they have hardly promoted themselves that well in there own area. There are basically no new amateur clubs or much growth in playing numbers in Bradford and Huddersfield since 1996. Both are not Rugby areas and both clubs know its easier to get youngsters from a rugby area like Halifax than try and develop properly the game and the club in their own area. Both do a little bit of promotion in their own areas but clearly not enough.
Whilst Halifax have been lazy as well as being poorly run in that area and that has given Bradford and Huddersfield an open invitation really to make contact with Schools and even more so the amateur clubs. Things have changed but this will take time sadly for many to become regular fans of Fax and want to come down to the Shay.

London is huge. It can produce great players for a hundred and one sports.

But not Rugby LEAGUE, unfortunatley!!

Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Tony Clubb, Will Sharp, Jamie O'Callaghan, Dave Williams all came through the academy and London amateur scene.

To name but 5 , from how many MILLION ?????