could not agree more...brilliant performance but only 1800 could be bothered.

as a rugby town this is rubbish, somebody please tell me what we can do?
who could blame basil for moving on when the first sl coach gets sacked

It was a red card for me. Like Nozzy said, it'd be good if the consistency was there but from what it looked like, Alstead clearly hit square in the face an dI dont think it helped with him rushing into the tackle aswell, making it happen at such as fast pace.

The lads dug very deep and ground out an excellent win. Fantastic effort considering we had 12 men for about 50 minutes.

Thought the lads played very well,showed great team work and commitment

I think the crowd baying at the ref was misplaced,what crimes did he infact commit?

If people sit and enjoy the game instead of screaming like banshees at tackles the opposition do they would properly go home without a banging head

On the marketing front ,what exactly did we do? as I missed it?

At the moment it is very very expensive for a family of 4 to attend on a spur of the moment thing,and thats the area we need to pay attenion too really.

Well after a fairly sluggish start we got to grips and scored to equalise inside twenty minutes. Alstead IMO deserved the red card and I feared the worst. This Eagles side can score points and have proved that today. The ref's decisions at times were bizarre to say the least but calling him a banker made things worse for us with the consecutive penalties awarded to the Eagles. When in the second half we conceded tries to bring the score to 24-20 I thought it was lost. 12 men against an Eagles side that can score points is a big ask of our team. However, our true mettle came through and we deservedly got a win in what can only be described as a game that we had to dig deep to record a win against the odds!

Is 1878 the official attendance?

Looked to me that it was a bit better than that, although anything less than 2500 with the performances this team are giving is dissapointing.

I would guess that at about 50 Sheffield supporters which has probably been about the average away support at the LSV in the league this season.

Good summary by Plonk and a few of the ref's decisions looked odd but he was nearer to the play than me.

What I did not like however was the leniency he allowed at the play the ball.

Sheffield looked good out wide and had some fast backs so our win was all the more creditable imo with us having to move our stand off to the wing for 50 minutes.

All in all our lads want to win and it showed. The fans got behind the side which was good to hear and re the crowd I thought it was a lot more than our last game at the LSV but reported to be a lot lower which surprised me and infact a mate said to me they got the first digit wrong. Ah well.

The HT entertainment was great too. Glad they don't play for us.

North Stand was much busier for the Batley game Frank, has to be said. Disappointing crowd but to be honest I expected nowt less given the downpour at exactly the time that a lot of people will start heading to the ground. But let's take the positive that there were 1,800 bloody passionate supporters there, made a ton more noise than the 18,000 at Wiggin on Friday, that's for sure.

the crowd figure looked about right from where I was

the crowd figure was correct this aint a conspiracy guys

My thoughts exactly , how many perhaps decided to stay in the pub rather than set off for the ground ? , as for the overall attendances and the reasons why ? reccession , a sense of having nothing to play for , so many other ways to be entertained , a general lack of enthusiasm to make an effort

The answer ? , well there is no easy one , no one single thing you can do that will result in a full stadium , only hard work , limitless determination to succeed , a sum of money to spend and a will to achieve what many will see as impossible

Does anyone know why the ref gave them a penalty when the Leigh player got up to play the ball with a Sheffield player sat on his head