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Quote: Stockwell & Smales "I can't make it to the game so can anyone tell me where I can listen to it?'" All the games are on West Yorkshire Radio here: mixlr.com/west-yorkshire-rugby-league

I would say interest in the game as a whole is waning. I can’t remember the last SL game I watched and I couldn’t name the top 5 sides in the competition or is it top 6.. I couldn’t even tell you the current format for deciding the Champions it seems to change that often now.

As for Bradford and this forum, well I guess a fair few people who attended might be making a weekend of it in York which might include a few posters on here. I would agree though that the club needs to find a way to engage more fans.

1100 is an extraordinary number for a team 4th in Championship with only an outside chance of promotion. Did Fev bring 300 to Odsal?

Good grief, 1800 to a SL game featuring the top side in the comp is the end of the professional game. Anybody trumpeting the advancement of Toulouse take note. How do you re-structure this?

Really enjoyed that game. We won the game up front despite losing a man early on and Brough pulled the strings expertly. York only had a brief spell in the second half and we never really looked like losing.

Thought Brough, Doyle and Crossley were all excellent. Our right side was very clinical too. On the negative side the two errors that led to tries immediately after we'd scored were shockers but we can irradicate those with a bit more concentration.

The news about Brown is interesting. If Pickersgill is off to Fev that leaves us short of a fullback. Thought he had a good game today apart from the horror missed tackle for the Kirmond try.

What's the Brown rumour? Where did it come from?

I’m not sure how many Featherstone supporters came to the game at Odsal because people could use the cash turnstiles, so it’s always difficult to make an accurate account.

The point I was trying to make was that 1100 supporters going to York yesterday is excellent considering what is happening elsewhere in the sport and the York supporters should equally be congratulated for turning up in big numbers.

The main stand at York holds just over 3500 and was 80% full with a further 400 in hospitality.

Without wanting to turn this into a Super League vs Championship debate, the crowd at York yesterday puts the crowds at some Super League games to shame.

In response to how you restructure this crisis for the sport, I'm not entirely sure. I feel too much irreversible damage has been done since the Super League split at Salford three years ago and no matter what remodelling structure the sport decides to agree on we are still drinking in the last chance saloon with the potential threat of Sky walking away for good almost certain.

Would be disappointed if we lost Brown. At 22 he's so much more improvement left in him.

The good thing about yesterday (I listened on the radio so might not have the full picture) is that that was a game York woukd have thrown the kitchen sink at, to keep their season a live and the rivalry they have with us. Despite that, from listening it sounded like the only time they got back in it was unforced errors by us, not handling kick-off etc

Gutted about Matty Dawson-Jones. Still Elliot Kear and Ebon Scurr to come back as well, and I think the couple of weeks off will have done him the world of good.

Plus Adam Rooks, who doesn't deserve to be dropped based on his previous performances.

When you see the highlights later your summary is correct - all of York’s 18 points came from unforced errors or defensive lapses as in the case for the Danny Kirmond try.

Pickersgill is a very good player but will never be a top class fullback until he sorts his one on one defence when exposed.

I think that's why the Bulls haven't tried that hard to keep him, the amount offered by Featherstone is not much more than what the Bulls have offered.

Fantastic result for us. Playoffs confirmed with a few games to go and what a turn around from that first game against Sheffield.

Hope MDJ injury isn’t too bad and we can continue to get everyone back and raring to go for the playoffs. Toulouse and Fev are streets ahead of the rest of the division but you never know in a one off game if they are sleep walking after a year of easy wins.

Super league is not all it used to be Especially on attendances but given the pull of funding to land, super league is the only place to survive

So what was the attendance yesterday...?

4,000.

Nice round number.

Statistically some games are going to have a nice round figure attendance- but yeah, it's a nice round number.

Wasn't 4K the highest legal attendance figure under the old covid regs?