Never heard that one before

Quiet in here tonight ain't it .

Am I right in assuming that Featherstone were actually trying to score and hadn't just turned up for a run around ?

shhhh . . . .
You might disturb them there trolls .
Wouldn't want them to awaken and see the final score now would we . Just imagine what this place would be right now if they had won .

Sit back . Put our feet up , and flil your face with cake . Looks like it will be a quiet night .

It'll be 'reet they will have been too busy 'taking over' the Carnegie stand to notice what was happening on the pitch.

I had the pleasure of entertaining my two youngest kids tonight , so I missed the game .
Some silver/gold emergency blankets , some stick tape , and a bunk-bed . A raid on the fridge , and we were in line for a good night in .
Kids are currently upstairs in the 'camp' having a picnic for supper .

Very disappointed with how it turned out, thought we wouldve given it a better go than we did, but you cant cough up the limited ball we had like we did

Thought we matched you in the forwards but the halves and the backs were on another level to our lot, think if we had been playing till next week we wouldnt have scored, the line speed was awesome and we couldnt create anything, well 1 break in 80 mins tells you that

Our lot were disappointing because we didnt have much to cheer but your lot didnt cheer much either and could hear the brass band more than anything, although it wasnt like you was needed to 'gee up' the players

Just glad we dont play that kind of talent every week

Hopefully next season or in the cup we can make a btter fist of it, be interesting to see if it would be that scoreline at POR

considering you averaged about 14/15k last season, where were the missing 10k tonight?......an magnificent servant to your club deserves a bit more dont ya think?

Well for a testimonial game the gate was about average,and just do a lttle calculation what the receipts will have been and he has a year of efforst to make more

It's a combination of 6 Grand Finals, 4 Cup Finals, 4 WCC's (plus 1 shortly), 6 CC semi's and around 7 or 8 Testimonials that those 15k have paid out for over the last 10 years. Naturally when times are harder people are going to prioritise. And with all due respect, Fev isn't a pre-season game that will be a big draw for Leeds fans.

Having said that I would have hoped for a bit more than 4,000. Though I can't complain too much since I didn't go myself.

oops!!

This has always been the case, a majority of Leeds supporters are season ticket holders, about 11-12K. A friendly against a championship side just isn’t enough to entice those season ticket holders to put their hands in their pockets.

As Him mentioned earlier last year we had a full cup run and GF to attend last year. We’ve had someone’s testimonial for the last six (maybe more) years and most folk have already bought their WWC tickets.

Following a successful team gives you a fantastic feeling but it also empties your pocket quite quickly. When times get hard a lot of folk have to pick and choose the games they go to, last night cost me and the missus, with tickets, travel, food, beer etc. about £60. A normal home game on my season ticket cost about half that.

It really not a simple case of showing your support to a loyal servant of the club, it’s a case of having the funds to do so.

Its a bit like when someone retires in the office and a card comes around with a pot to put some money in for "a collection", sometimes they get lucky and theres enough to buy them a bunch of flowers to go with the card.

I just don't get the sports testimonial thing (and I've been to enough £50 a head chicken frikkin dinners in my time), it just doesn't happen in real life to real-time people - "Rob in accounts has been working for us for ten years now, we've declared 2012 to be his testimonial year, he'll probably get a cheque for £100,000 tax free at the end of it, but he deserves it..."

Just never happens does it ?

I think its the short career and traditionally low pay that lead to it. these days its harder to justify, though as Kev famously said players accept less pay to be part of this great time, the fans get to say thank you for his loyalty.

i didn't go but i bought my mrs the calendar ( why she wanted it when she has me to ogle i don't know) and went to a fundraising night.
you don't have to go to the game to contribute