That was the first one the club played though so it was very much a novelty at the time hence the near full house.The other two games we played there we attracted 27k and 32k when we played Manly and Melbourne so a significant drop off. Add in the fact that Elland Road would cost a significant sum to use would it be worth the risk for GH moving it there? Only if we can be guaranteed to fill it, otherwise no imo.

And yes, personally i think a full stadium on our home ground full of our own fans, in a game we have earned to play there should be viewed as a success, because it is.Its international games played in 20k stadia because we can't fill the bigger grounds that irks me.

The drop off can be explained by the parts of Elland road that Leeds Utd didn't open
But still the lowest attendance at Elland road was 25% more than we could get at Headingley.


If the WCC is a competition to find the best rl side in the world, pitting the two biggest rl competitions against each other it could be huge. If it's a glorified friendly to make leeds rhinos a bit more money, frankly I don't think I could even be bothered to watch it on Sky never mind attend. It's the heatshot festive challenge with a fancier name.

Nothing wrong with Headingley as others said will be packed and great atmosphere.

But surely we shold be making this an event to market the brand of the Rhino's outside of LS6

Market the game everywhere in Leeds make a presence in the City Centre with billboards with 3 trophys and J.Thurston etc.. and we would pack Elland Road with 35k easy.

Let's get some new and casual fans coming to HQ in 2016

We are small time when it comes to marketing we have no presense anywhere in the city. and having it at HQ is the safe and small time option

Exactly. Get em on sale before Christmas, maybe even a special shirt commemorating the treble, I have no issue with it being milked, but it needs to be a big event that spreads the game to new people and gains profile. Not taking a bit extra from the same people who will turn up another 10+ times that year.

As others have mentioned, Elland Road is a tired old stadium which is not really fan friendly and is still, when all is said and done, situated in Leeds like Headingley is so its hardly anymore than preaching to the converted when trying to promote the game around the local area which is all that wil happen, we have seen it all before. Yes you may get a few more thousand on the gate but personally i fail to see how that makes the game any bigger or further reaching than it is being played at Headingley.

I'm all for expansion if its done right, and if we were to take the game out of the RL heartlands to a bigger stadium elsewhere, with a big ambitious promotion drive like you mention then i'm with you and hopefully that would pay dividends but if its a straight toss up between Headingley and Elland road, it's Headingley without a doubt for me.

Like this one?

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Good grief that's hideous.

Also, it doesn't feature every kit we've played in this season as the Magic Weekend charity kit isn't represented - unless it's on the back somewhere.

I'd would rather we maybe take the game the game on the road to London

But in terms of taking the game to Elland Road, we still have very little presense in our own city outside of North Leeds. We have a 800k population and still only get an average 14k home fans a game, and have done for the last 10 years. Which is great for a RL club but could we do better? The answer is a big YES.

You can walk every inch around this city today and would seen no sign of us winning the treble (other than back pages of the YEP) and that season tickets are available for 2016.

We could build our brand so much bigger and the WCC is a great way to do it. Having it at HQ shows no ambition and is purely to line the pockets of the club
. Which I don't have a problem with, but I wish we could look at the bigger picture.

An abomination.

ISC really have run out of ideas.

Home shirt - cack
Magic shirt - cack
Majority of off field wear - cack
Treble shirt - cack

I have to agree. The recent crop of replica shirt have not looked great and is it just me or do they look worse the closer you get? The printing and graphics, to my eye, look cheap and tacky.

Haha! It looks like a cast off from the early 90s football kits, just worse with right angles and straight lines. Wouldn't be quite as bad without the third Wembley one.

Couldn't they have maybe done it in 3 being sliced at a 45 degree angle instead so there isn't quite so much going on..?

thought for a season or two now the Leeds jerseys & training gear has been complete cack. i wanted a couple of new vests for the gym ,so bought some really nice and well made Cas Tigers stuff instead !