Never one of the Clique I can assure you, to think back how many posters we had back in the early days here on RLFANS.COM but the Clique did not want them, they wanted it to be exclusive lol and so many left, they attempted it with me, but no luck! lol

Maybe somebody could define this clique and identify its believed members? Personally, I don't believe that there's any such thing, until someone is able to prove otherwise.

What he said

It's an easy cop out phrase when ones opinion is challenged, and just to address the point, the Broncos forums in any guise [pre RLFans as well] were never that well populated and I doubt many more users now than then. Obviously names move on, that's life, but rose tinted glasses always wear so well.

Now why do you think Big G had so many alt nicks?

I've said it before. The appointment of Powell as coach was a real mistake. That year we had a full SC spend. If we had appointed a top quality coach that year we would still be in SL.

Must agree, we appointed the wrong Powell. Daryl Powell was at Fev at the time, should have got him. Where would we be now?

Powell/GM

GM was not just a bad appointment, he was a joke.

Aside from 1980 at Fulham and the first match of the SL era at Charlton, it never really went right. I suppose the heart went out of the "family club" when Peter Gill left.

Agree I loved the days at Fulham, I liked Charlton, and have to admit the World Club Championship games at The Stoop, when it rocked, not heard what the atmosphere was ike at Millwall yesterday, would like to know how the 8,101 attending was broken down fan wise? who did it attract?

I reckon the breakdown was as follows:

95% Wigan
2% Millwall
2% Broncos
1% Catalans

No way was there 8,000 in the ground either.

Saracens must have been brought in to man the turnstiles.

A southern RL fan is tweeting 2500 southern addresses bought tickets, 2000 of them their first game. (As tickets were bought via Wigan possibly first Wigan game as I certainly wasn't on their database before this week. Always paid on the day visiting with Broncos strangely enough.)

Have to say they must have been elsewhere in the ground as my area was all Wigan. Some will have been Wigan fans down south anyway (I went to Brick Brewery pre game so approached on a north bound train, there were a surprising number of families in RL kit heading in that way suggesting they live South London-ish.)

I hope those figures are right but my experience of the day didn't reflect those figures. I was also surprised at how few Broncos faces / how little Broncos merchandise I saw. Obviously in a crowd of X thousand I may just have missed people - I didn't see Paddock for example - but it did make me think a lot of RL fans down south may have totally burnt their bridges with the sport. A good friend of mine who did numerous away games and had a season ticket for years was three miles away watching football for example.