Joking aside you certainly took a lot to Cas last year, certainly the 2nd best in the league behind Leeds. We also had a lot of fans at the NRC final in 05' if you can remember it.. i would say there were a lot of KR fans there too, cracking day out. For me Wigan,Saints,Warrington didn't bring a lot to Cas (you could mabye exclude Wigan from that though) for the size of their clubs. Wakie,Hull and Bradford brought a lot more than i would have expected. Expected a lot from KR from the games i've been to not related to Cas. Salford brought a pathetic following on Saturday and Quins and Cats were both expected because of how far away they are.

crowd records for every club, from British Rugby League - a ground hoppers guide by mike latham



1. barrow - 21,651 vs salford, 1938, craven park
2. batley - 23,989 vs Leeds, 3rd round Challenge cup, mt pleasant
3. blackpool - 8000 vs st helens 1954 at bloomfield rd
4. bradford - doesnt say, says many crowds of 30,000 - 40,000 were common
5. castleford - 25,449 vs hunslet, march 1935, 3rd round CC tie
6. chorley - 8000 vs lancashire in 1878 (pre NU days)
7. dewesbury - 26,584 vs halifax in the yorkshire cup, crown flatt
8. doncaster - 10,000? i think in 1952, CC tie vs bradford at york rd
9. featherstone - 17,531 vs st helens, PO road, 1959
10. halifax - 28,150 vs wigan, Championship semi final replay 1950
11. huddersfield - 32,912 vs wigan, 1950
12. Hull FC - doesnt say
13. Hull KR - 27,670 vs HUll FC at boothferry park 1953, at craven park 22,282 1922 vs hull fc
14. hunslet - hunslet vs leeds at elland rd, champion ship final 54,112, can finals be counted though?, otherwise 24,700 vs wigan, 1924 3rd round of the challenge cup

Not the other Friday at our's it wasn't!

2006 NL1 Grand Final - Hull KR support: 7000
2006 Challenge Cup Final - Huddersfield support: 6000

Don't make me keep repeating these figures.

Huge respect for Cas, one of my all-time fav SL teams and a genuine class about them (remember seeing one of your fans congratulate Leroy Rivett after the 2005 NRC Final, which sums up the decency of your support).

Hey, re that day, IIRC you had just over 6000 fans there. Do you realise that this means you were just as well supported at this as Hudds were at the CC Final the next year (as we were at the 2006 NL1 Final compared to them).

You reading this Giant Daz.

maybe that newspaper report from the time is wrong then ??

The truth is, I would say Rovers took between 2000 - 3000 to Odsal, not that it really matters, some teams travel better than others. I think the Bradford Chairman had it about right at 2500.

As much as Rovers fans exaggerate the figures to be more positive, the same could be said about some of the 'incidents' at away games that are reported on these forums.

The incident at Odsal first broke on the forums as "Rovers fans have smashed up a bar at the ground and a number of those involved were removed from the ground".

Turns out the truth was, and still out of order, that when the staff attempted to close the bar someone threw a plastic pint pot and a plastic bottle and sounded off some abuse.

To suggest that Rovers have a 250 strong mob intent on causing trouble at games is way off the mark. Here's the boring bit but every club has idiots, the bigger away following then I guess it is reasonable to think more 'idiots' will attach themselves to the support, but 250?

No no no... the idea is to inflate the number.