I got email to say Sinfield as Director of Rugby, James Lowes full time first team coach

https://www.therhinos.co.uk/2018/07/06/ ... ds-rhinos/ Heatherington's comments suggest that Sinfield is running the show, with James Lowes putting the cones out.

https://www.therhinos.co.uk/2018/07/06/ ... ds-rhinos/ Heatherington's comments suggest that Sinfield is running the show, with James Lowes putting the cones out.

Money and time well spent.Your succint posts illuminate our uneducated forum.
Henceforth I will take you far more seriously.

Except of course that your licencing figures include Bradford - well supported despite being a struggling team, and you post licencing figures don't.
But anyway it's not just about Super League, the licencing system was poison for many non SL clubs' crowds. Nothing to play for, why bother turning up?

London balance out the loss of Bradford who were down to 5,200 in their final year....London were 1,294 in 2014.

As for it not just being about SL, the only thing that has seen Championship crowds increase since 2014 was Bradford being in the Champs in 2015/16/17, HKR boosting it further in 2017 and Toronto inflating C1 last year and the championship this......crowds at paces like Fax/Fev for games against the likes of Batley, the cumbrians, London etc are nothing to write home about...and summer bash 2018 was the worst attended event to date......so the death of RL outside SL isn't the fault of licensing, it is the fault of the clubs who fail to attract fans to their games.......without Bradford or HKR turning up, there just aren't the fans to support professional full time outfits in the 2nd tier....Halifax are the best run club in the 2nd tier by a country mile, but they can't possibly hope to challenge on the back of 1,500 crowds.

I think not !

Google it think you will find it is. Excluding glasgow scotland

London – 9,750,500.
Birmingham – 2,453,700.
Manchester – 1,903,100.
Glasgow – 1,057,600.
Newcastle – 837,500.
Sheffield – 818,800.
Liverpool – 793,100.
Leeds – 761,500.

Made the top-8. They'll take that this year

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It's not an opinion it's a fact. Whatever. Leeds is far and away the largest city in Rugby League. And while it still has no Premiership soccer team, is fertile ground for Rugby League. The Headingley complex is far and away superior to anything else RL has to offer. Always has been. I remember the first time I went to Central Park, I was expecting a Wigan version of Headingley, it was, even then, a dump. Of the RL test grounds from my youth, Central Park, Fartown, Station Road, are no more and Odsal is and always has been a joke, Headingley is the one survivor which can still claim to be worthy of international football.