But are numbers increasing or falling ?

I could go to O/T now and buy a ticket for the match on monday night , now that has not been the case for a long time

not sure if falling or rising but always new fans come along to replace others.

This could have given us a overall average attendance of over 2500 this would have increased the turnover of the club and then in turn, We would have at least had a Licence application looked at. Perhaps we would have been in the last 4 of the Challange cup. What a achievment, this would have gained Media Cover possible sponsorship for next year and a higher gate.

That day will Haunt this team for a while yet.

At the end of the day if you love your rugby league and love your team nothing beats the game day feelings whether a superleague side or champ 1 and 2. Look at teams like keighley, Hunslet, Batley (no offence) these teams are realisticaly not gonna get a sniff at SL but their fans always turn out because they love their club, which is exactly how i feel about fax no matter what league we're in due to franchise or p&r. Yes the whole things a disgrace but no way am i gonna let those idiots at red hall destroy my passion for my club. All the fans that stay away because of this are missing out on a fax side who are exciting to watch with players who play with pride for the badge and interact with us fans showing just how much it means to them and if we go on to win the grand final the whole town will surely have a feel good factor even if we are in the same league. So lets enjoy what we've got and hope the rfl will finally see sense and wood and lewis will move on.

Unfortunatley the people at the club have to shoulder some of the blame for us not meeting criteria. For a start the U20s or whatever it is now has been handled like a farce and should have been sorted out this season, disscusions with the RFL should have been going on for a lot longer than they were.
The club could have done more in the way of trying to increase attendances knowing what average crowd would be needed to apply. Then the farce of the NRC and the disgrace that was the CC has probably cost the club a good amount of money and once again saw people lose faith in how the club is been run. Since then things have been on the rise but its probably a case of too little too late. All we can hope for now is for the players to keep doing the business on the field and we make it to another Grand Final and of course winning it would probably make us the most succesful team in the Licence period.
For me im not fussed about SL, watch my team get hammered every week, which we would, or watch us be competitive in this league. I know which i prefer but things could have been done better.

Ya never know we might just get that attendance tomorrow

i wonder what they will do if we get over 4,000 in tommorow. sounds to me like they are using that as there excuse, just to make them squirm we should turn up in big numbers and force them to use another excuse

There might be more to it that what you think, or think you know on this particular thorny subject.

The RFL will just add to the rule all member clubs must have had attendances of over 2500 for at least 7 co=operative league games

does greg florimos boots ever say anything positive.? . Ive only been a member a short while but I thought this was a site for fans? with fans like him the club might as well call it a day now cos they'll never be able to please him

If you read my comment i think you will find the answer sherlock.

You are right though this is a site for fans and having only missed a handful of games in the last 25 years you will find that i just about qualify.
Welcome to the forum.

Quick Edit: Just looked at my most recent posts and they are more positive than usual. New member but regualr viewer?

Don't be silly!

There are so many ambiguous get out clauses in the rules that there is always a way around them. If Kathmandu applied for a SL franchise it would get one under "expansionist" policy and if in their first season they managed an average attendance of 3 men and a yak the RFL would hail it as a resounding success.