At match yesturday i was talking to a "cockney" cas fan, he takes his extended family every Quins home match thanks to the London Evening Standard giving away 1000 free tickets, i couldn't believe how many times i heard the shout, "tickets 2 for £7.50"

Because the salary cap allows you to spend a decent amount even if you don't bring in massive revenue. If we are allowed a new license for next year we will be allowed to spend more than we currently bring in. If this were to happen i am sure the team improve a whole lot more and also attract even more supporters.

Yorkshire radio presenter said 100, his partner in crime (and believe me, they both commited crimes against broadcasting!!!), the guy from yep, said 100-150.

In fairness, although the commentary was amateurish and clunky at best, they did say some fairly derisory things about the Quins experiment - the type of stuff that most supporters think, but that you rarely hear said in the media.

They did, but the guy from YP/YEP tried his hardest to hace a dig at us aswell.

It begs the question, with all the freebies, just how many paying customers were there ?

They rely heavily on Uncle Ken's largesse, in much the same way that all the 'top' sides rely on a rich benefactor.

I don't suppose it's a good thing, but I wouldn't say no.

Mate of mine is a Bulls season ticket holder and says their attendances seem to be rather inflated every game.... he said there was around 8k yesterday but the released figures are 14000.. wonder if they are counting the £60 seasons tickets they sold for each game?

If you have a season ticket or a free ticket does it mean you may be counted in the official attendance ?

All the big clubs rely on a rich owner to fund them. I think there is only Leeds who fund their squad without somebody pumping money in although they got to where they are by Caddick putting his money in in the past.

Indeed - that's what I said.

As for the questions about ST holders; my understanding is that clubs are counting ST holders on their attendances whether they attend or not, which would explain the Dulls pledge and other similar schemes.

Essentially, flog a ST for virtually nothing and hope that even a small percentage of those people turn up and spend money when they do - 10% of 10,000 is, after all, better than 100% of nowt. The ability to report massively inflated attendances is of course a significant billy bonus, since it's part of the licensing criteria.