Where were the fans yesterday?
Under 10,000 is a poor showing for a sudden death match.
Presumably not all season ticket holders can afford to pay the standard price for a ticket?

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Jeez you're a flighty one.

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Same at Wigan, just 12000-ish for a Wigan-Saints playoff.

Game is on its , but RFL too busy defending themselves and pointing out what a great job they're doing to sort it out. I confidently expect the announcement of another 'innovation' (aka gimmick) as the next big thing, when in fact its some trivial 'event' like Millennium Magic. Game going nowhere with the current bunch of muppets and part-timers in charge. Only fans like those of Wigan and Leeds keeping it afloat at all.

Interesting to compare RFL and RFU websites. Single job advert on the RFL site was for a 'development officer' for a whole region of the country. You got 20k per year, a short contract and a free laptop. Average amateur union club makes more than that from its bar.

Can't do anything about where we are today compared to Union but would at least like to see a 15 year plan that has some basis in reality rather than the deluded fantasies of Nigel Wood.

I'll never forget, when playing student RL, listening to some prat from the RFL explaining how it was soon going to be like college football in the US, with 100s, even 1000s paying to watch student rugby. Er...yeah...right. There's a massive difference between ambition and delusion.

Bad mood this morning, probably 'cos we lost, but how depressing to sit in a more-than-half-empty stadium for a Wigan-Saints game.

I give professional RL just 10 more years at this rate, before club owners give up and hand over their teams to Union. Now *that* sounds like fantasy, but I reckon its far more likely than the current idiots at the RFL improving anything.

Warrington was most shocking attendance of the weekend, IMO just 10,006. I know our attendance was numerically lower but considering they were being presented with the League Leader's Shield for the first time in the club's history after the match. Where were all the fans to see it?

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Agreed Warrington's crowd was a little under considering the presentation of the League Leaders trophy but still think Leeds' was worse given the sizeable Hull contingent compared to Huddersfields if you get me and only one was a season-over prospect.

Wow this thread is just full of flakey types. Show some spine FFS - the game has been in much more precarious positions than this with its "death" confidently predicted. It is more resiliant and its fans and backers more hardy than you give it credit for.

Personally, I believe the current era is something of a golden age and will be looked back on as such. Short term difficulties will always arise. And whilst attendances for these games are disappointing, they have been ever since 1998. One could ponder on that at length - but one reading is that the success of clubs in selling fans season tickets has weaned many off the idea of paying at the gate - boosting recurring attendances through the season but undermining to a degree the events for which cash has to be forked out.

And don't compare RL to RU. League is a healthy, largely regional, minority sport. To compare it to a much bigger sport off the field is lunacy that will only ever be futile.