I still think half the posters registered are the same person. Just need to get him/her back.

Everything is average nowadays.

it's not just this board though is it? i mean, the Saints board is a ghost town these days compared to 5-10 years ago. at least we have some activity on here even if it is the same old stale stuff we have to discuss.

TVOC has nailed it above.

Not just Leeds but the whole sport in this country needs to rediscover some of its previous mojo. I'm not seeing any indications of that happening anytime soon.

A depressed game creates a depressed fanbase so the fans are following suit.

I'd suggest Leeds fans have been somewhat insulated from the overall malaise throughout the sport in recent years for no other reason that the club has been winning silverware. Now that's no longer looking a likely prospect, boredom has set in and the product on the field is now being seen for what it is... very underwhelming.

apart from last season its been boring watching leeds for a while. I stopped my season ticket 4 years ago because of this. just pick my games nowadays

Agreed Tad

For me the whole show has become boring. British Rl seems to have a serious inferiority complex with both NRL and RU. Instead of trying to be the best it can be it's trying to ape two arenas that it has no hoep of competing with.

The loss of the schooles liaison officers and the regional development officers is causing a malaise in grass roots rugby that will reach the top in a few years. Let's face it, if you're good you're going where the money is, and it isn't SL is it?

No he hasn't.

This website hasn't died a slow death over the last few years because of what's happening in a sport where crowds were up last season and dropped very slightly this season.

RLFans, like 1000s of similar websites across the world has died a death due to social media.

Maybe Saints' 100,000 fans across the 2 most popular social media networks are to blame?

Spot on, not this "oh it was better back in t'day when everyone knew everybody and you didn't have to lock your front door at night and a pint of milk only cost X amount" nostalgia stuff.

Like attendances at a game, as older fans start to stop going for whatever reasons, boredom, family etc. new younger fans will start going. That's why despite quite a number of older supporter saying they've stopped going the attendances haven't taken a big drop because new people start going. However in the form of the this message board as is alluded to above by Lioner81, social media is much bigger now than 10 years ago and people have more options to keep up with following Leeds online. Especially when this sites demographic is mostly made up of the older fan who isn't shy in telling newer younger fans they don't know how lucky they've had it and look down on them because they weren't there through the struggles of the 80's and the boards troll who will try target anybody who wasn't watching RL in 1972 and is only old enough to have seen Sooper Dooper League.

Maybe... maybe not i really couldn't give you an educated response as I don't bother with either myself, and certainly don't feel like i am missing out.

Crowds were down last season and are down again. 2012 was the last year crowds rose. About 250k fewer people attended a game last year than 2012.

I started posting nearly 15 years ago? It was a way to reconnect to with the sport after many years of living away from Leeds. It was early days of Internet, dial up modems etc. I tend to agree a little with '81. Social media's proliferation has for many people made RLfans redundant.
Why have some of the older posters stopped posting? People just change the things they do and what they are interested in.

Is SL a worse product, less entertaining to watch? etc. Is a different question. There is some overlap sure, but I don't think it's as big as some make out. After all, I would guess that the most traffic on Southstander appeared when Leeds were playing badly. People like to complain. Would be interesting to see the figures for traffic this year compared to last. As a scientist I would like to see evidence to support or deny my hypothesis.