Quote: BackrowSaint "That can easily be attributed to both Leeds not selling as many as they could have because of fans expecting a battering and a lot of neutrals staying away for the same reason.
The fact that they are probably two of the most disliked teams at the moment won't of helped amongst the neutrals either.'"
You are completely right about Leeds not selling tickets which is a bad indictment on them as a club, the first time in a while they have a bad season (Why Heatherington took McDermott from us with his record is beyond me) and they don't back their team? However much people may not like Wigan they have had some bad seasons but their fans still backed them home and away, they sold all their allocation and had extra and the football team attracted a good attendance for them of 17,000 plus kicking off at 12.30pm
It sickens me to read comments like "most disliked teams" that is not the game I grew up in, there was not real Hatred and that is what it is years back okay yes competitive and good humoured banter, is it just a reflection on life today that our game is stooping down to the levels it does on the terraces and the language used in some forums and so bitter hatred?
Back to SaintsFan comment I took some stick myself on my own club website for attacking the BBC for putting the warm up on the red button! they have known the dates since the season fixtures were released, they set the kick off time, why not have had it 3pm and allowed more pre match coverage on the main BBC1 Channel, so many people seem not to know about the red button? Perhaps with the increased audience was down to people sticking around after the F1 Qualifying Session? so we gained from that. In the weekly media someone was calling for the The Challenge Cup to go to Sky, no way should we sell out in that way, if the BBC are not interested why not ITV, they are doing the Rugby Union World Cup.
I think the BBC will not continue with the Challenge Cup if they can get away with it and there are serious doubts about the Super League Show this year it has been a farce some of the times it is broadcast and how fans outside of the North West are expected to watch at an unearthly hour on BBC2. The administration of Our Great Game is a shambles what we allow and how we run such a major events.
