What would you deem a good crowd for that friendly Tre Cool?

Increasing crowds, and extremely solid and passionate away support. Own our own ground and land around it. Two new stands built largely by volunteers. Shiny new Centre Of Excellence with state-of-the-art training facilities. Award-winning Foundation doing tremendous work in the local community. Significant financial backers. Extremely consistent on-field performances (table-toppers four years running). I think we tick a few boxes there.

Leeds got about 9k against Wakefield.

So you think that's what the crowd should be for Featherstone and Wakefield?

If you want to add something to SL then your average attendance should at very least be 8000, probably more like 10k. A local derby friendly should bring half that, so 4-5k.

I think if you are demanding a place at the big-boys table, you should be compared against the big boys. Fev got what a quarter of what Leeds got. If that carried on to League attendances Fev would be in trouble.

Bit harsh on fev Leeds did play against a Wakefield first team and over 2500 fans is pretty good against a youth team I actually think 9000 is pretty poor effort for a derby friendly there will be about 14000 for the Hull derby friendly

There was only about 8k there last year so I doubt it.

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that was Wakefields 17, (not least because there were 7 Subs) and the Leeds side was Jones-Bishop, L Briscoe, Minns, Moon, Handley, Sutcliffe, Hardaker, Achurch, Aiton, Clarkson,Delaney, Foster, Minchella. Subs : R Ward, Milton, White, Walters, Grange.

Which is just about as 2nd string as they could get, 3 of them have already been sent out on loan for the season.

Fev wouldn't bring anything to Super League, infact they don't bring anything to game. May aswell give it up as a bad job.

If thats what you think, thats what you think. I think they are doing a good job of being a semi-pro RL club.

They are a good semi-pro club. I just don't see that they could progress to a fully pro one and compete financially in SL

Fev would bring as much to SLE as the bulls, wakey ,cas, hkr,huddersfield,Widnes ,salford & london as they currently are, so no big deal if you was to replace one of those.

Everything's in place for Fev...apart from the crowds. And I don't believe you can just expect the attendances to quadruple because they're in SL. That plan didn't work for Leigh and won't work for Fev.

Until they have a really big push on attendances / memberships to match everything else they're doing they're still falling a bit short for me.

4k would've been a decent attendance for that game imo.

the only way fev will get in superleague will be at the expense of either cas or wakefield, imo of course