Featherstone and Pontefract are virtually 1 and the same, if you live in Pont you support Rovers, the only people that support Cas are the non drinking social outcasts, you go to any of the Ponte amateur teams and they will have the token 1 or 2 Cas fans, they are probably more passionate about Rovers than Fev folk believe it or not in my experiences, you dont hear of hardly any Wakey fans at all this side of Fev. This is the reason Rovers have drawn a dozen crowds above there population a feat not many sporting clubs in the world can get near to matching. There are a lot of Cas fans in Knottingley as well as Fev but iv never known coaches go from Knottingley to Cas games but they do to most Rovers games. Rovers have a big area to pull from we are a big club that just happens to be in a small town

I won't dispute that Fev are attracting more fans than they probably should - but please define 'big club', because to my mind you've strayed in to nonsense.

P.S. In terms of population, Featherstone + pontefract < Leigh

Depends how you define a big club, you may think its nonsense but the words i used are the exact words the Rovers board use for destination super league propaganda purposes. I define a big club through history (we have that) facilities and future prospects. We own 18 acres of land near the ground, land that will be changing from green belt as hundreds of houses are to be built very near there, this gives us superb future prospects if managed right. We can certainly compete for crowds if in the top flight as have done before, we also have a very wealthy shareholder. Put it another way i would rather be in our position than some so called big clubs currently in super league

It doesn’t matter where they're from, just get them down to the game, hopefully they’ll enjoy it and turn up again the following weeks and years. And that applies to either/all clubs.



So we are currently getting under 2% of our catchment area, you wouldn't think 10% would be too great of an ask, but at 2% it shows how far we have to go.

So what is the answer ?

It does, which why I asked you to define it.



Come on, we can't just repeat the stuff our clubs tell us. Experience suggests that we'd all be looking massively foolish on a regular basis.



Fev as a club have existed for a while? I can think of many other clubs that have history. Hell, even the Fuldon Bronquins have history.



Your facilities are currently adequate but improving, and quite frankly 'future prospects' can be put in the same folder as Cas, Wakey & Bradford stadium proposals. Show me the reality. Wikipedia suggests you've had stadium proposals on the table, in one form or another, since 2008.



If it happens, if it is 'managed right'. If's...

When it happens, I'd be keen to accept your argument and Fev



Past performance is not an indicator of future performance, plus your last top flight season was 19 years. That's a long time.



We had one of those. Doesn't last...

If this is the probiz guy you're talking about (not sure) then you've got to ask if it's the land and development opportunities attracting him - there's money to be made from that development. I hope it all goes in to the Fev coffers, but I'm not 100% sure it will.



I think any ambitious club, run well, can achieve better than probably half of SL because they're run poorly. It's endemic in this sport.

Fev are doing things right, but right now the 'big club' tag is bluster.

I wish I knew

I think the answer is 42.

Only a Hitchhiker would know that

what was the question

To get more then 2% of the towns population down watching the team that's unbeaten 9 games into the season there's just two teams ones us the others is Saints!!!!

That big meat raffle they have somewhere in pontefract that always seems to clash with thursday night play off games needs sorting, because it attracts half the usual matchday fev support.

I'd be really annoyed if half our fans dissappeared at the business end of the season.