After his recent run in the first team, Thornley has gone on loan to North Wales Crusaders for a month according to their website.

I think he can feel a little upset with that, i thought he took his chance of 1st action very well. Is he good enough to go ft, not to sure, he may not even want it, anyway good luck andy

Whilst I agree he has played well in the centre'we have Armstrong Hankinson and Pitman now for centre spots and Haggerty too can cover that position.

Better to have him playing Championship rugby imo.

Thorniley has done nowt wrong this season, but we cant keep signing players on for next year , or we will have a bigger Squad than the British Army .We all know we still need a couple of Quality recruits , and to do this we MUST be hard and let a few players go , for me Thorniley must come into this category .

Ive read on another thread on this Forum our Own Maurice , thinks we will get average gates of 3500 for next season whats he smoking ? .

Unless Mo is adding the games we would play against the Bottom 4 in SL if we finished in the Top 4 in our League , even then it would be very hard to achieve averages of 3500.

I'd prefer the club aiming for 3500 rather than sub 3000. In terms of next seasons concept I don't believe its unachievable.

Why not? We've seen a big increase in attendances this year, next year promotion is back and franchising (the main reason people have been staying away) is dead, thank god. Plus we will, hopefully, get games against 4 super league clubs in the Qualifiers 8. Might be hard to get 3,500 but it's not impossible and so should be aimed for.

Think and hope are two different things.Budgeting for is different again.

Rome was not built in a day.

Budget for 2500, aim for a 12,500 full house every game.

We've averaged over 3000 before in this league in the not to distant past. Optimistic but achievable target in my opinion.

We will get 4 home games in the middle 8 ,but most likely only 2 against SL opposition, providing of course we make the top 4 that is

As for attendances, I'm with Harold, set a reasonable achievable budget target, but aim to fill every seat for every game , that way you never get complacent

There is no ' logical ' reason the stadium cannot be full for every match, achieving it is obviously incredibly difficult, but the only reason not to try is because once " somebody said '

Thornley on bench for NWC today along with Ryan Duffy

SKY 'Live Score Centre' has Andy on the bench for us too, at Donny. Now there's a true 'dual registration'!