Sadly when we do disappear, countless fans of other clubs will crow "bound to happen, no one in London ever had any interest in rugby league."

I was once naive enough to think that a successful London side would transform the perception of the sport in this country. Well, that ship has well and truly sailed. Sailed and then sunk.

Best way to sum up why we are at this juncture is actually the WCC warm up games.

2009. Manly. RFL marketed the game and we got 6,000.
2010 we were again give the warm up game v the storm, but no marketing from the RFL, we didn't bother even trying and we got 3,500

It was simple bloody maths.....an extra £50k on the gate +whatever in the bars and food concessions because of a heap of PR and Promotional work undertaken by the RFL in London prior to the Manly match..

Has anyone received an e-mail from the club about this? I haven't and am wondering whether I'm now on some don't bother e-mailing them list or whether the club really don't feel the need to inform someone who has held around twenty season tickets - albeit not this season for health reasons.

Email from the club?
Oh you are funny!

Typical on Twitter yesterday, some Loud Mouth! sent me a message, you never attracted more than 100!! when I looked at his information LFC Fan and Saints, the team who has been attracting 7,000 to 8,000 this season! the new stadium St Helens Council pulled out all the stops for them ££££, population now of the area is 170,000, council spending council tax money for 7,000 lol, it sums up RL, yes some people in lockdown have found better things to do, but no one at the RFL will pull their finger out!

It was good in the Catalan game Saints owner, the man with his personal offices at the ground lol, jumped up and down with one of the late conversion attempts, while no one around him in the stand did! Would love to have found a photo o this and titled it ;Should have Gone to Specsavers' lol

People keep talking about 2024. In 2022 and 2023 we have to pay 200K rent just for PL... Not sure how much for Richmond. And we have very little central funding. Just how much money do you think we have to spend on the squad (acadamy). I don't see any noises from Wimbledon regarding the cost of the rent, (and why should they reduce it).... But no matter what the ticket price and marketing, people are not going to flock to see kids get beat by 50 week on week on week.

Would be interesting if we draw WWR in the cup next year. Could be their first ever win

I wonder what onnth gate price will be demanded to watch part time players next year. This year started at £25.00 IIRC.....what will the accountant lobster and commercial monkey think the imaginary hoards of new fans will pay to watch egg chasers get walloped by a team from a pit village they've never heard of?
How much do Skolars charge?

Think this year s/t was £100 with Conc at £80. No idea re kids. Match tickets £15 I think but sure there are those that know better than me.

900 was the average in 2018 in the championship....we won it and went up. 2022 will see us struggle to stay up....BUT....let's say we get 1,000 back, how.much will they be expected to pay to watch part timers?

I imagine prices will be same as this year. It will be impossible to justify raising them.

So as it was at the start...£25.00 a pop on the door? Good luck with that

Harlequins open their Gallagher account at home to Worcester later this month. £30 is the walk up price and there's not a lot of tickets left.
Trailfinders was £210.00 for their Season Ticket in the grand stand.......we were after £30 more...in enemy territory?

On the topic of Trailfinders. 2nd tier. Knocking at the door of the top flight and doing it on average gates of about 800.......I was 100% against the move there, but now it seems insanity to move.....unless that is....we are assured of a SL2 spot

...which we may well find ourselves in at the end of next year....

A Coventry source is saying it looks like £1.8m to be split between the Championship clubs next season and just over £200k between the League One clubs. There may not be a third tier to get relegated to.

As is widely known I was a dual Oxford/Broncos season ticket holder. A co-owner at Oxford told me one reason they pulled the plug was they thought League One would be scrapped within five years and they weren't prepared to invest the sort of sum required to turn the club around, knowing if they succeeded they'd probably be booted out before they could make their losses back.

Only problem! It seems Sky feel 2 x 10 is the only solution! they seem to be driving this, seems they are not willing to look within, how their main co commentators are two clowns! I feel this contrac5 may be the last, they are moving big into women's football, the cricket fun one day games, would we get a broadcaster willing even to match the new fee, I doubt it!

It feels a little like The Titanic! some Super League clubs will struggle next.