Back where we belong at the basement of the Guiness premiership, a healthy whooping at home, and a massive crowd of 6,000 !!

And director of rugby stating "But we certainly still believe and we'll be measuring ourselves against the sides who we feel we can get a result against."

So three games in, and the director of rugby recognising there only certain games where they can get a result.

Abandon hope !!

Lets not forget the money the club brings to us and Headingley area

Before you slag the RU club off for attaining a 6,000 crowd i would look closer to home

I hate RU and everything associated with it, but i would guess that the RU club would be very happy with that attendance, and would hope for much the same throughout the season

consider the fact that the Saint Helens attendance in their play off game against Huddersfield attracted a whopping 6,157 spectators, i would guess that the Saints would be the more dissapointed clubicon_wink.gif

In other words, Leeds Tykes were more popular amongst the locals this weekend than Wakefield Trinity and almost as popular as St Helens.

As for the opposition, a defeat to last year's Grand Finalists is hardly a measure as to their survival credentials.

what will happen if they really nosedive this season and crowds do the same and they get relegated again ,will they survive ?
who is backing them now?

Caddick

How often do people on here need to be told that (apart from the effect on the pitch) there are massive benefits in sharing with the Leeds Tykes.
Without that connection Caddick would not have come on board & without his money where would the Rhinos be now.
Plus it has significant ongoing financial benefits to the Rhinos, it's a pity that some on here are too stupid, bigoted or both to see this.

I know about the benefits they have brought in the past but I'd be interested to know what benefits they could bring in the future. I assume Caddick thought they'd served their purpose when he offloaded them onto Carnegie.

Shared admin & other back office costs/facilities for starters.

People forget how low our crowds were when i started watching them. How would our crowd hold up if we were in the same position as the Carnegie team in the table? Would we be pulling 15k or 8k?. We have a hardcore of 8 to 9k imho no more.

Off-set by them focussing all their time and attention on Rhinos business, diversion of sponsors etc?

That's the same argument as saying that if we didn't spend money on (for example) arms we could solve the world's poverty.
Well similar if not the same, I'm sure you get my drift.
It has to be a better business model to have the place used for 12 months rather than just for 6 or 7.

As I posted on another thread, it seems that our 'kicking and clapping' cousins have got their act together at club level and are attracting significant crowds at the start of the season.
We've had half-empty stadia in our 'finals'!

Didn't Caddick have ownership of Leeds RL before he took over the Union operation?

That's my recollection.