Apart from the Sheffield game which sticks out as an obvious loss from day switching, the rest pretty much avearge each other out and based on one season whose to say the numbers wouldnt have dropped by that much anyway? Also what isnt taken into account here which i think you would have to be involved at the club to find out, is the difference in financial turnover for the games with the lower gates. Which im sure everyone agrees is what the club is more interested in at the moment.

If they have made a gain with corporate deals etc for friiday games then i cant see the friday games going away.

I honestly think one of the issues is to get people more interested reguarly. if for arguments sake the average crowd is 1800, then look at the Leeds game where their was around 6000 on. Take off say 2000 leeds fans then 4000 people turned out for this game. which if people in the town were interested more often surely that would bump gates closer to the 2500 mark.

This was from September last year onwards when the staff was made redundant by the club.
Young lads can not apply for the grants though etc etc Hannah and co could and have got secured and in place.

Since then, they have worked independant of the club, one of their projects that they funded with grants was the boards that are on the walls under the North Stand.

Does it exist now?
Who are they?
What have they done?
What are they doing?

My understanding and I stand to be corrected, is the previous Community Department (although officially an independent trust) was/is only operating totally independently from the current management of the club, the previous management worked in partnership with them.

I don’t really understand why the current management has taken the decision to move away from this. I’m neither knocking that decision nor having a go at the new kids on the block, I just don’t know why. If it’s been explained before then sorry but I’ve missed it.

I must admit I was forming an opinion based loosely on hear say.

I have since learned a lot more of the work the girls in the community dept or trust did behind the scenes and the grants/funding they secured that will now not be available to us.

So I'm now not entirely sure why the club have taken this move myself either considering (as it would appear) it will now be tied in with a Super League club's own community programme.

I shall ask at the next fans forum.

Good idea

Everyone will have seen a small part of what their funding was spent on under the concourse of the North Stand.