Theres no public transport between Toronto and Huddersfield, is my excuse ok sir? I haven't been to a game in 5 years, so I guess that doesn't make me a real fan, eh?

Not everyone has to attend games, it doesn't make them any less fans. Sometimes real life takes a front seat to rugby, and people have other priorities and prior engagements that theyw ould much rather do. Again, this doesn't make them any less of a Huddersfield fan than it does you or me.

I remember going to games where we would get 2500 on a sunday, so to now be getting over 6000 on a tuesday night is fantastic

Seriously?

Define a real fan for me 1st before i reply to that load of old bollox

Yes, 6000 for a top team is rubbish ......how about we wait to see what our crowds are after we've won a trophy before we start comparing our crowds to 'top teams' .....i dont know if you can remember what Bradford, Warrington, Leeds crowds etc were before they won trophies but i can tell you they werent anywhere near as good as what they are now !!
Success brings fans .....simple, we haven't had any success of note since the early 60's so the fans that are new to the club have been attracted by other means rather than success.
To go from 3-4000 average crowds to nearly 9,000 in 6 or 7 years on the back of winning nothing is excellent stuff - yes we have had 2 cup final appearances in that time which will have brought a few fans, imagine if we had won 1 or even both of them what our crowds will be.
all the current top supported clubs have one thing in common that we dont - SILVERWARE and until we get we wont see a sudden huge rise in our gates.
10,000 new people are not suddenly going to start coming to the games because they pick a paper up and see the league table.
And the people that are currently fans do not need to justify missing the odd game when they have been here for a few years now.!

BTW Eaton , are you off to Catalans this weekend?

once again lastnights crowd was ok!!!

the season ticket holders turned up (we have around 5000) so dont see how we could expect 8000 for this game

if it dropped below 5000 then we could moan but it didnt

eaton has some fair comments though

Dont get me wrong i do agree with him and it frustrates me as much as anyone how we cant attract bigger crowds...but at the end of the day moaning will not improve them, like i said silverware will improve the crowds.

I knew that would have a few comments back. You all know my opinion now, if you dont agree with me thats fine we all support the team. But that is where i stand

yes i am going setting off tomorrow are you?

yes, going out friday...were having a meet up at bar LeSource on friday for the Leeds game if you wanted to join us

Where staying in Spain Laret de mar? If not i would do, cheers for the offer though.

You're obviously a young man Eaton. A bit of life experience is likely to mellow your views a bit. A game of Rugby League is just that;[i a game[/i. Strange as it may seem to you right now, there are more important things in life.

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ok, we will probably all congregate in the bar behind le castillet before the game then !

la Poste

Yes Le grande cafe a la poste is the one !!

Me either !!