Maybe as a business the club is doing ok? Who knows. We've been through financial hell prior to the relegation to the Championship and naturally we all assume the worst.

However our average attendance for the season is over the magic 4000 this season which I remember Marc Green saying in one of the initial sign up meetings was required. Perhaps the actual number required is a little less than that? In negotiations of any kind no one ever reveals the true figure that is acceptable to them.

The hospitality suite always seems full and we have a lot of sponsors/associated companies now. The hospitality bit also seems to do a bit of non-Bulls related business too. I'm sure we make a good amount from the four replica jerseys released every year and all the other merch and then there is also Bulls TV, Lottery etc.

If you factor in that we have had 40 first teamers on the books this year and quite a lot of those are our ex super league squad who will be on a fair chunk and are probably leaving then maybe the shortfall from the central funding won't be that hard to make up?

None of us know but Marc Green doesn't seem like the sort of guy to me that would take gambles. He said he would run it as a business and I'm sure that involved doing a worst case projection of not making the 8's. I was at the game so didn't listen but I saw a post somewhere detailing Marc Green's spot on BCB today where he apparently said that next years squad is sorted.

Oh and we've been relegated to the Kingstone Press Championship Super 8's section of the forum now too.

I'd say humiliation complete but I'll save that for when we don't make the final by losing to Dewsbury at home in the play off bit of the competition.

Am I right to think we are already in the playoffs for this Mickey Mouse cup unless we lose every game, and Swinton win every game?

God knows how you sell the next home 4 games.

Yep, all points carry over so I think us and Fax only have to win 2 of 7 to be in the top 4 play off.

Then 1st plays 4th and 2nd plays 3rd and the winners go to the final. Or something like that.

chuff me there's play-offs. Why prolong the misery. Why not just give the mickey mouse cup to whoever finished top (or 5th as it were)

Sorry but if we make the final then who would really go? I'm not forking out yet more money for the club "celebrating" absolute failure. I'd rather watch our U19S in the play-offs. Least they have a bit of pride.

think us and fax only have to win one each to guarantee semi final spots.

Apparently not.

So it could all be sewn up for us in week one then? This is going to be a long month!

Sorry No interest in this coconut fight, we all turned up in numbers to see our team play week in and week out. In some games they stayed on the bus so i am staying at home, SF can sit by himself with the Tealady but i expect she has more taste than that.

...AND she can turn over a new leaf!.....unlike some.

And what are you basing that on?

Welcome to the world of Championship RL as it was with licencing , how you feel about your next 8/9 matches is how myself and many others felt for 6 seasons

Great Innit

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Not here to rub anything in, just to try and compare what might happen on attendees based on what happened to us (London) last year when we failed to make the qualifiers. In the normal season we had about 700 average (apart from when we played you and Leigh), in the final 4 home games in the shield, the average dropped down to about 350ish (so about half).

Part of that is due to the meaningless fixtures (ie you have already qualified for the playoff fixtures), and the lure of playing Swinton, Oldham at home it not the same as playing Leeds and Hudds.

We also saw some of our players really went off the boil in some of the games (the home loss to Hunslet was the most dire London game I saw, and I have seen a lot of dire London performances over the years). However that game was the bottom, and since then we seem to have improved and kicked on.

Just grit your teeth over the next 2 months, make sure you win the teapot cup for pride more than anything else. You'll be back in the qualifiers next year.

That won't happen with us. Our players have been e all year.