I would say in this licencing period leighs average attendance in 2011 is higher that fax and fev have had so far

Wouldn't know Matt but should we have to? is it to much to ask for a little honesty among 'us down here'?
And are the turnstyles electronic at fev? if not then every one would have to be checked manually.

We always used to send someone to check, but in these days of reduced staff numbers, I wonder if our resources stretch that far?

We parked in the carpark behind the ground and were directed to the back gate where we entered paying cash to a steward.

Yep, saw my entry money go straight in his pocket after a furtive look round

be stupid in my opinion not to announce a reduced crowd in a shared gate, just look at the crowd figures for the super league play offs

I only ask as I fulfilled the same role in a Challenge Cup game at the same venue last season (although it does also come under the jurisdiction of the match commissioner believe it or not). They do have an electronic system to a certain degree in terms of coming through the turnstiles etc, although there are tricks that can be pulled if the individual turnstiles aren't 'zeroed'. If there's any suspicion that any club is on the fiddle then a) I'd hope (key word) the RFL would be wise to it and b) that other clubs exercise their right to monitor things, though maybe they're unwilling to do so in an 'honour amongst thieves' type of scenario?

We did do checks at away grounds 5/6 years ago for split gates , and had opposition officials do the same to us

Stupid or illegal take your pick, its bl**dy fraud.

Fred is right. Matter closed.

Very surprised this thread has gone down this road as far as it has tbh

The point is whether I like it or not, which I do think ,we are definitely behind Fev at the moment despite our I believe campaign, which IMHO , why have a huge flag inside the ground telling us that do believe is going to help us achieve SL !

I don't see why you are surprised, a positive thread about somebody else was always going to be sabotaged by the resident curmudgeons. If Fev do get a place in the SL they will be absolutely slaughtered by the usual suspects.

Well I thought it may get people to come up with some feed back on how we can possibly get back in the race.
IMHO the crowds and community work are were we are behind FEV, we are now trying to address the community side of things so we are left with attendances. What can we do to get more fans through the turnstiles?

We have much more potential than Fev.

There are too many Yorkshire teams in the top league already. They will never be better supported than Cas.

They are a pit village with no chance of ever drawing 2500 fans of their own. The terracing behind both ends is tiny and far too steep.

Daryl Powell has halitosis and they fiddle their gate figures.

Where would you put our flag Lynda ?

Oh and their pitch obviously suffers from subsidence. We must have a team with a level playing field.