This post is meant to be taken in the lighthearted manner it has been written and in no way is meant to reflect the views of any member of this board.

Laws of the game according to Mick Gledhill:-

Every referee must be biased against The Bulls.
Every referee must endevour to give the opposition points.
Every referee must endevour to refuse The Bulls points.
At every 'play the ball' the opposition must be deemed to be offside.
During every opposition 'set of six' there must be at least one forward pass.
The Bulls can never be deemed to be offside at a 'play the ball'.
The Bulls can never be found to have made a forward pass.
Linesmen must always be baldheaded, have bad eyesight and questionable parentage.

I'm sure there are many more that i have forgotten.

Just joking Mick

I tend to agree with the last point in the list...

Regarding the linesmen....

I don't know the bloke's name, but you know the old fella with the grey hair that everyone recognises? Does he touch judge every single match? Does he have some sort of magical device that allows him to be in four places at once, or is he actually one of quadruplets? I'm not sure I've ever seen a game of RL where that bloke hasn't been the touch judge!

Don't sweat it Mick. So long as you keep doing your bit. There's very little else you can do.

As a Giants supporter, l can tell you that a lot of fans you have lost will have gone forever, In the good old days for "you" the bad old days for "us" the bulls reps were all over Huddersfield schools tempting the kids with goodie bags and tickets, plus offering the razzmatazz, and of co you had success. All over Hudds and surrounding towns/villages you could see Bulls stickers.
It should come as no surprise that with the demise of the Bulls and the rise of the Giants that the support base has changed. You are all l,m sure aware that the Giants have worked very hard on, and especially off the field to win back their own people. lt has been a long hard road, l am not gloating, these are facts that will account for a lot of your missing support, there are still a lot of floaters out there, all those small towns and villages twix Bulls and Giants terratory, but the stickers are changing.

be interesting if they all stick to giants once cheap season ticket offers are stopped though.

do we really need to have this post or something very similar regurgitated after every game we lose mick? Everyone fully aware off the financial problems and implications of the poor attendances. You spreading doom and gloom does nothing to help. If you've got positive suggestions fair enough but the constant restating of the situation doesnt help anyone.

But the thing to remember is that everybody seems to think we always had large crowds and that is simply not true. Before Peter Deakin and Brian Smith the support was fairly dire and I think Mr Deakin in particular would have loved to have started from a 9000 average.

First home average for SL was only just over ten k, including big gates for Fax, Wigan and Saints.

Half the teams in SL operate on <9k. A number with far worse grounds, IMO, than Odsal which I have always liked. Nor do they all have a sugar daddy. Which might be an indication of the parlous state of RL.

The bottom half of the table at a guess?

with exception of hudds everyone above us has a higher average home crowd and everyone below has a lower home crowd so far this year. maybe some correlation there between spending power of club on salary cap (due to both crowds and backers) and league position?

Huddersfield has poor crowds? I'm shocked.

You make it out as if I start these threads every week?

How can I be positive after a game like Sundays?