A big rap to the club on this one. Not just the details of the day as pointed out in this thread, but,as with Cas, the choice of match was spot on. It wasn't great rugby but it was a good game with enough skill, biff and incident to keep the newbie interested. Much better than, as in the past, inviting newbies to watch us being slaughtered by Saints in depressing one-way traffic.

... and the weather wasn't bad either. Does Gus M. know something we don't?

Weather was nice. Got a bit of a tan.

Gus Mackay deserved MOTM for getting that many people along.

On subject of attendances in general, I see Salford got 3200 (not that surprising, I guess) and the Hudds v Cas game got a miserly 5,200. With the season Hudds are having, you would have thought more fans would have been prepared to travel the 10 miles to Halifax.

Round 16 attendances averaged a mere 6613 (down 2665 on last year and the lowest for this round since 2002).

You lose the walk-up though for a game like that.

Does that include the Halifax kit-lady?

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Why are Northerners so lazy?

Last season one of the Hudds/Wakey matches (can't remember which was the home team, probably Wakey) only pulled just over 5,000. It's a thirty minute train journey between the two towns, roughly equivalent to the stopping train from Twickenham to Waterloo.

Is it only me who can see the irony in Harlequins RL Fans commenting on low attendances elsewhere

No, I can see the irony in it Gutters.

However, I am entitled to my opinion that a team that has won 8 of it's 9 home games this season and is 2nd in the league and playing some awesome rugby, deserves to have more people dragging their sorry s to support them (even if it means travelling a whole 9 miles or so to do so.)

Quins fans get loads of stick for not turning up and most of us travel miles to watch a team that produces about 8 home wins every two years.

Sorry if I sound bitter.

PS Their club's been around for 100 years or so, you know, about the same age as Paddock.

A) they are northerners b) they eat chips c) they are northerners d) they breed whippets e) thery are northerners f) they race whippets g) they are northerners h0 they wear flat caps.

.....you forgot to mention the Monkey Hanging Business.....and that they are Northerners