As to the last point, it's called a 'charge down' and is perfectly legal - play on. Refs make mistakes in all games - God knows we've had plenty this year - so you have to play on regardless. Wire were the better team overall, apart from the first twenty minutes, and deserved to win.

also less than 6200 there thought you lot had more fans than that

Other things were possibly going on.

there might have been 500 from warrington, so make of that what you will

Thats being generous aswell!!!

Id have said 300 tops

overall it was not a classic match, cas were not great, neither was warrington, but ben thaler was a disgrace to the game. he let far too much go over the 80 minutes and far too much went in warringtons favour. they did not have to try hard because he made it easy for them, made sure that cas did not get further on top after going 8 nil up. the way thaler went about it there was only going to be one winner and it was not going to be cas. what took place in the last 10 minutes proved it, trailing by 16 points, down to twelve men, we suddenly get 5 penalties on the bounce. the man was a joke.

just one of your clan came on our board claiming my estimation of 6200 was an insult and that you have more fans than that...the reason for our small away following might have something to do with us going over to barcelona in 2 weeks and the game being live ontv...just a thought

We have about 7000 hard core fans, no idea where 2000 of them were last night. Very disappointed with our turn out, more disappointed with the wire turn out.
Looks to me saturday night on tv is a no no for the fans, to easy to sit in a pub with a pint and watch the game from there.

I wonder what it'll be for the Catalans game in 20 days as that's on a Saturday as well.

I dread to think.

If the weather is good it should hopefully be better. I think the chance of rain and it been on sky put a few people off.

Why are you more disappointed with our turn out? Surely if you have 2k fans missing you should be more worried and disappointed by them?

We can all quote reasons (plenty of away games recently, Barcelona etc.) but I think your last line pretty much hits the nail on the head. In the current financial climate it is far easier to stay at home watching it on Sky, that's what I did. Nowadays it isn't as easy to justify match tickets and high fuel costs to travel to away games when the game is live on TV.

Because i remember seasons gone by when the railway end was packed with you lot and the drummer boy making some right noise.
I thought wire had a good amount of travelling fans, maybe the finacial climate is affecting us all.

Don't get me wrong, the Wire following was piriful by all accounts, but away support seems to be don all round at the moment.

The big challenge for clubs at the moment is to keep their home support.

Just thought as well actually, around 3,500 Wire fans this week have been out and bought tickets for a match that wont be used for 8 weeks (the semi final - sorry, not trying to rub it in!), so maybe many just couldn't justify doubling their spend on RL this week. Hopefully it was this rather than a lack of interest.

Think a few things made this attendance a poor 1. Both teams just played in a QF, wire fans just been out and bought thier SF tickets, the expensive trip to scotland wasnt that long ago and with the fianancial meltdown affecting most of us, people losing thier jobs, people strugling to find thier jobs, and yeah before the wakie trolls come along thats effects more than just people in cas. all this and the game was on sky to top it off.
Even tho IMO this was Cas' and Wires' biggest SL of the season due to the table postioning, but the money cost is starting to take a bite.
Disapionting crowd but for some it might be pay the rent, get some shopping and watch it on TV or goto the game, doesnt make them bad fans or socalled airchair fans, just some are struggling.

ar well thats mine 2 pennys worth....and yeah before wakie trolls come....my last 2 pennys