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Hat do you mean? Im an adonis. A bronzed god

rlSportingliferl and rlSkysportsrl websites are still reporting the attendance last night as 8,235.

Shambolic that the Sky Sports website should be using a figure that doesn't correspond with the live Sky Sports broadcast on the night - but sadly all too predictable. I've no idea which was closest to the true figure but it looked sp enough to be a sub five figure attendance.

The Guardian too but best of all... the rlofficial superleague website match reportrl is also reporting the attendance as 8,235.

How do you know it's dross if you don't attend?

Well we will all soon see if that's true

But I am sure you were right all along!

Incorrect, I made 'bets'.
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Why would I do that when I favoured Leeds in a 'tricky' contest as opposed to a non-contest against whipping boy SL rabble? And even if I was minded to favour Wigan, there was little value in the odds being offered by the bookmakers, which, IIRC were odds of 1.28 for the outright win, or 1.91 with a -12 handicap.


Maintaining or increasing a loyal season ticket customer fanbase is a more financially sustainable policy in the long term as opposed to relying upon reaching finals every season. Even a Tory ought to know that.

Because I've seen the SL dross on TV and it doesn't only apply to Leeds performances. It lasted for 27 regular season rounds plus 2 weeks of meaningless play-off fixtures to eliminate all the whipping boy SL rabble.

It could be worse though, we could have had a really exciting season then an absolutely dross play-off series like the NRL I suppose...

Agree with that.

Worst series of play-off games I can recall down under.

Dreadful, in fact.

Psst

Now Leeds have proven that we can win the Championship off a handicap once again do we have to offer points start next year?

Isn't it this time of year you have to re-invent yourself Willy?icon_lol.gif

In hindsight yes. I doubt that GH would agree with tat as a long term strategy. that's the sort of strategy that the Bulls followed. It's much easier to lose the cup final income stream than to recover the season ticket income stream.

I am sure it wasn't GH's or the coaches or the team's strategy to take it easy in the early rounds of SL this year. As I have said before IMO we had to train hard pre-season to peak for the WCC. Then to peak agin for the CC and finally the playoffs. To have been able to maintain form for all of this and in between would have been a miracle. The critics just do not seem to allow for any fall off in form before they rush to judgement.

However I am equally sure that GH has achieved almost all his targets for the season with his coach and team reaching all 3 finals and winning 2 of them. This will have secured his income targets too. I also think that retaining our Championship will be good enough for most season ticket holders and those that do drop out could well be replaced with new supporters that victors attract with perhaps a big name signing helping too.

The team know they let themselves down in several games this year and the coach could well try to play some attractive rugby next season in compensation. However we will have the same WCC to peak for early season and so again have a handicap that the other sides do not have to face. The problems of success.