I am looking forward to this more than the semi finals, I'm so glad we are not in it. I don't think I would like to be a Wakey or Bradford fan watching it, too much at stake to enjoy for them I think. I am not bothered who wins it, but think Wakey will be too strong for the Bulls. I am glad I can just watch it with a beer and enjoy the game. Good luck to both teams.

Under the new format, these always next year

Seriously though, we have a league of 12 clubs who play each other twice (plus the Magic game), we then have another league (the qualifiers) who all play each other once, why the hell do we need another game when everything is on the line.
If we cant decide who should be promoted or relegated over 30 games and have to have a final spilling of blood, it's a bloody poor show.

You seem desperate to have an argument because you see a criticism of Bradford where one doesnt really exist. Bradford's attendances are poor. They are poor for Bradford, that may be because they were relegated. Id readily agree that relegation destroys crowds.

And yes, Bradford compared to other clubs have huge potential to get back to where they were. Lets hope they do.

The wider point is that there is clearly a connection and it is dumb to be celebrating 1 8k crowd when we have lost 1500 for 30 weeks beforehand.

Nobody is celebrating it, it was mentioned because it has relevance to negating the narrative you're trying to impose. It was roughly 9,100 btw, not 8k. I'm starting to see where you're going wrong.

You're the one pushing for the argument. You keep saying Bradford's attendances are poor, but I say that for where they are currently and for what's happened in their recent past, they're not.

I can’t believe you’re continuing a discussion with Smokey, remember he’s a Leeds fan.

He doesn’t support a club who have had no success for a number of years.

Let’s be honest, if Leeds were to have a similar slump & found themselves in the Championship their crowds would still top ten thousand .

Well actually, if their real love ever manages to get back into the Premier League & win stuff, the South Stand would become a much quieter place.

Because it didnt. Relegation and the prospect of it correlated with far poorer attendances for Bradford than not. Even if you want to delude yourself differently

Those things arent mutually exclusive. If you want to say Bradfords attendances are good for a relegated club, good for a 2nd tier club, good for a club with this, that or the other excuse, fine.

They are still poor.

My mistake, I thought by quoting me you were continuing the conversation we were having and not resetting the clock to lunch time. Easy mistake to make.

That said, they really weren't.

The closest anybody came to mentioning crowds before your first postThe game's nearly sold out after only two days of sales.'"

Why moan about the format. As a fax fan its been the best year in years, more to play for.

I can not wait to watch the game tomorrow. A closed shop is not a fair sport. Just makes it boring. This is the way to go. A couple of rule changes eg no signing a whole new team a week before the playoffs etc and it will be perfect.