OK yesterday was freezing cold and the Reds have few travelling supporters but the crowds are puzzling this year. The numbers annouced seem to tie in with the look of the terraces which has not always been the case.
I would have thought given our rise from the dead, our position in the league, the fact we are playing some of the best attacking rugby for years and have a good sprinkling of home grown talent would have put some extra bodies through the gates. Have we lost support to Huddersfield or Fax? Are people struggling to find the gate money - though if we did sell 7000+ season tickets we must have very few people paying on the gate. Sure OK must be wondering as well. Anyone else have any thoughts as sooner or later this will start to hit the bank account.

It was that way up to '73. Sometimes it was one conference, sometimes it was regional. I think the move to the divisional system was so that there'd be a one home / one away fixture system.

Before my time too, '73 being the year I was born.

Didn't you get a few games in during your first few months?

I guess that depends on how Sky want to play it. The defining point about SL clubs to me is that they are full timers, so on that definition it would mean two divisions of full time pros under the SL umbrella.

To be honest, I'd have very serious doubts that Sky would want to underwrite it, and right now you can't see who else could and without that backing I can't see the RFL, or the bods running SL, going down that particular route.

And before. My parents were at the '73 cup final against Fev' a month or so before I was born.