It's so frustrating. Today - i switch on the telly and see blanket coverage of a frikkin' boat race, with the banks of The Thames packed with spectators. Tried Rugby Uinion on Sky Sports: and i mean really tried - to see the qualities in this game. You can see the difference in skills and fitness compared to RL. it's a total bore-athon. Yet, this game is head and shoulders over ours in terms of presentation and take-up and media coverage. I feel like doing this ........

It is incredibly frustrating. I don't know if its been covered on these boards before but what I find particularly baffling is that there have to be at least 100,000 people within 90min to 2 hours of the Stoop who are ex pat heartland club supporters / followers or who watch the game regularly on Sky. I can't back this figure up with demographic or census survey information so its very much a guesstimate. If correct and if these people just attended one game a year they, coupled with the hardcore support, casual support and away support would take the attendance average to over 10,000 for each of the seasons Superleague home ties, if they bought one friend or family member then we would sell the Stoop out every week! However it would appear that they are just not interested in watching live Super League if London are involved. Poor London team, aside I have still seen some terrific rugby played there and the odd upset makes for a fantastic day. Cost cannot be an issue £15 for a ticket, £8.50 for a travel card if coming from within London and no more than £20 by train even if travelling from the sussex south coast. Strange.

GF no offence but you might as well quit calling it ESL - in reality it's not been the European Super League since 1997, and 13 British teams + 1 French is hardly a 'European' league. Expansion will never take off like some hoped, time to face the truth I'm afraid.

Keighley or York for SL 2013.

That was down to health and safety restrictions or whatever as tickets were like gold dust having been sold out 2/3 weeks in advance.

the same at Gilbert Brutus there was a full house though there were about 200 empty seats in the main stand - this is due to the new hospitality lounge now being open in the new stand and all the sponsors & invited visitors etc spending the game in the lounge rather than in the stand - very nice work if you can get it !

well,before the hospitality lounge was open this season the seats were always occupied by the sponsors, visiting club members and the like ,players & WAGS etc but now it's completely empty - the players not taking part in the game (injured or dropped etc) are usually seconded to the hospitality lounge to look after the sponsors etc - it's good business for the club but strange to see so many empty seats !