The 100 year argument is not ridiculous at all. Sports clubs that have had success tend to have had decent crowds over the years, they might fluctuate but if you look at teams like Wolves, or Notts Forest who have had some success but not much recently, they have still maintained decent crowds. There is no real equivalent in RL because as soon as a team has a low spot the fans dissappear. In 100 years, it should be possible to develop a decent number of dedicated fans, especially if they are the main team in town. Before someone says it, I am not expecting RL clubs to get crowds as big as soccer, but the percentage of diehards should be the same and it isn't.

widnes should be put in SL, if only to shut up the whinging of their fans spoiling any thread not concerning them

You should be made King of RLFANS.COM in that case.

Did you not know? tb is the king of message board patronisation... He sits there rubbing his hands with glee with each demeaning comment he idly throws..

well, at least this thread has exposed a fair amount of flatcap hypocrisy

see the post above for a fairly funny example

There are more than enough threads being derailed on here into personal spats - so everybody: reign in the personal attacks.

I thank you