You get that for all sports

What's a proper fan, go on set out the criteria. No doubt something that mirrors what you do

Do Tescos have proper shoppers or do they appreciate anyone who shops there whether it be every week or just to buy a turkey at Xmas.

I enjoyed watching the opposition particularly the great players.

I still don't understand why you are saying it's failed, the club are still in existence and still playing. Widnes hull kr Leigh Bradford have they all failed as well? Widnes and kr successfully spent time in lower leagues and have progressed back up.
As for fairweather fans, contrary to popular belief in don't mean it as an insult fans will drift away from the club for lots or reasons and will come back for lots of reasons.
There is no problem with folk that pick and choose specific games, I would rather they did that than not come at all!

Whatever, I stated what I stated way back when it was all first mooted, when the only real RL forum was the old BBC one.

I agree it didn't have to fail, but it was obvious from the outset that the onus was on immediate on-field success rather than long-term building and hence in my opinion it was doomed.

I'm no Cowgirl Nostalgist or Gutterfax who take great delight in this, I would have loved it to have been a success but I could see NO FOUNDATIONS!

As to fair-weather fans, that is what you get when you have a "build it and they will come" mentality. They have virtually all gone now, so discussing them is irrelivent.

I'm no super fan, 3 or 4 home games and the odd away game, a home shirt and occassionally an away one too is the limit of my commitment. It's never changed really (Except for the Quinns debacle, and even then my missus got me a top by mistake, lmao).

I've followed them for 20 years many as a ST holder

I don't go now(did Blackpool last year). What category do I sit in?

Not sure where you are going with this Pete. The club has not folded we are still up and running, we may not be as successful as we would wish but am still not sure where the failed thing comes from.
Fair weather fans comment, build it and they will come! No its sport, win games be entertained they will come. When Wigan Leeds saints are having a bad run gates drop, in kickball man u are suffering from that.
Don't forget before the first ever game the fan Base was zero

Wire' I'm not interested in putting anyone into "camps", I don't feel superior to anyone in any way shape or form.

Mickey, the discussion, as ever is going nowhere which is why I said "do we have to hash it up again".

I don't think Fev', Salford, Wakey, Widnes and Hull should have been relegated in '95 or Donnie should have been "double relegatted" to make space for an ersatz franchise in PSG or a club (ourselves) who hadn't earned the right to promotion. This is just a personal view, and it's in the past. Lets look to the future guys and stop jumping on anyone who'se view isn't our own.

Not jumping on anyone who has differing views at all just having a discussion, what happened in 95 can't be undone though.
As for us not earning the right to be promoted that's as may be, but we actually held our own in that comp for a fair few years, so it was the failure comment that I was interested in.
From my point of view we are a long way from where we have been, is it back to square one? Maybe, but clubs in the past have declined and some have successfully re built, examples being KR widnes and Leigh again will be contenders this year, they have slowly really built.
The ground we are at, far from ideal, but to be honest in my mind suitable for where we are as a club at the moment.should we do well this season and get in middle 8 then who knows! I think a home game in million pound game would present some interesting challenges, but we ain't there yet.
Oldham then Swinton as season openers first hurdles to get over

What will the feeling be like around the club if we have no points after them 2 games LOL

Trying to look at the glass half full then might be a bit of a strain

It's a dry January, glass is completely empty

Borderline suicidal?

We will be gutted, but we will look for positives and hope for the best in game 3!!!

As we have always done.

What if we win both. We will think we can win the million pound game, wont we?

Come on the glass will be fuller than that we will be looking at finishing third in middle 8s and fretting about suitability of the ground for 2017 In super league

I would absolutely LOVE to fret and worry about where our 2017 SL fixtures will be played, I'd be delighted to spend ALL 2016 in a frenzied panic at our dilema!!!!!

www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... ast/page-5 GF working his magic elsewhere

www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... ast/page-5 GF working his magic elsewhere

Good to see him going, needs to think about his names........

Thats his proper name

Thing is he's not wrong about that photograph is he? I mean surely the 'club photographer' could have turned 180 degrees and taken a shot of the stand / pavilion / thing with the seats that have a terrible view? At least it might have given the impression (albeit a misleading one) that the Broncos will be playing in something with aspirations of being a stadium! On seeing that pic someone who hasn't been to Ealing will think ' But where are the seats?'

turn left outside e b station keep on the left for 3\ 4 minutes its on the right hand side for the moons pub

Quote ="Rob from Erith"Thing is he's not wrong about that photograph is he? I mean surely the 'club photographer' could have turned 180 degrees and taken a shot of the stand / pavilion / thing with the seats that have a terrible view?'" That 282 image 'album' from the fans day is here.... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 959&type=3 and a case of quantity over quality which should have been heavily edited before releasing to the public. OK, there are half a dozen good shots there but I'll keep my mouth shut about the rest.

Quote ="Rob from Erith"Thing is he's not wrong about that photograph is he? I mean surely the 'club photographer' could have turned 180 degrees and taken a shot of the stand / pavilion / thing with the seats that have a terrible view?'" That 282 image 'album' from the fans day is here.... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 959&type=3 and a case of quantity over quality which should have been heavily edited before releasing to the public. OK, there are half a dozen good shots there but I'll keep my mouth shut about the rest.

sorry I should have said spoons pub

It all seemed to work okay yesterday. Had a bit of an issue with tickets for the curry, but it was all quite esily sorted.
Must say that the place is a lot more welcoming than The Hive. The staff were very obliging and the food was really good..
How away fans view the place will be interesting.

Careful bost you will get accused of blowing smoke up David h
Did you go to the yawnion game what sort of numbers were there? Was getting in any issue

I did not get there until 5pm, so missed the union game.
Only problem was that as we were queuing to get in, a coach was trying to get out. Took a bit of sorting out. A one off situation I suspect.
Parking in a muddy field was not ideal, but there you are.
On the whole everything worked out okay.