Rather than begging for followers on a public forum, why not talk about Rugby League and use the #rugbyleague hashtag? Then if people following that hashtag find you interesting, they might follow you too.

first of all i dont know what a hashtag is, and 2nd of all begging for followers seems to have worked so far, quite a few are now following. i will continue to use this method and see what happens but thanks for your input.

am tweeting about all the friendlies that i know of now and performances of individual players

A hashtag is this symbol # - users of Twitter use it to reference a subject that their tweets are on. For example, rlhere is all the Rugby League talk on Twitterrl. It's a great way of talking to like-minded people and a very natural way to increase your follower numbers, and less effort than spamming public forums.

The AUP will no doubt have a part that prohibits you from spamming the boards, that's the issue - not how to get your Twitter follower numbers up (although rlfeel free to nudge me closer to 2,000 if you likerl )

what will happen if you continue to spam our boards is a ban from this site. A friendly warning.

nice to see a few cas fans are following by the way, well done to those who are