You are Stevie Wonder and I claim my £5

For once in RL history we shoud have fiddled the crowd figures up to 8-9k and put a further two fingers up at Red Hall.

Talking of crowds thought it was a very poor crowd at Shudds on Friday to say two top teams playing at the top of their game and wire usually bring a few but Red Hall wont look at that cos they have a nice stadium.

Agree. Good attendance today from you guys. Should be looking at 10k on good Friday

Good crowd today 5500 was about right and most importantly we got behind the team and left the ground happy and we've not done that at Belle Vue. There seems to be feel good factor around the place with the fans players and club together as one. I noticed a few faces I hadn't seen at belle Vue for a while gradually some of the stairways seem to be returning. Wakefield always has the potential for big crowds with A Gs guidance (and a new ground) hopefully we can reach our potential

they must have brought about 30-40 fans max.

I wonder how much home fixtures against the RFL's pet teams costs the proper RL clubs each season, in terms of lost gate and other in-ground revenue?

Huddersfield reckon they lost 40 grand with the Wires game being on TV.

bren2k i guess the rest of sides would bring 400 minimum all the way upto maybe 2500-3000 or so cas fans?

personally would rather have halifax and widnes in sl than crusaders and quins but thats personal choice! agree with the lost revenue part in travelling away fans.

Unfortunately expansion wount work in my opinion with a single club in wales or down south and it would be better served to have 2 down south and 2 in wales but 4 clubs taking up spots in sl where the support is clearly in yorkshire/ lancashire/cumbria is not a good idea.

To get a team in manchester would have been a better option.

I have no ill feeling towards quins or cru by the way and appreciate they are pro rl teams but i think they do not have the fan base and should not be sitting in sl and when nl would be more ideal for them to build their support bases up.

the phrase of "get your own house in order" first comes to mind. And that is build aa strong competition around Rugby town/cities in the heartlands and then expand outwards when the time comes.

Not the best argument for us to use really. I imagine that the Lancashire sides will be happy to swap us for Widnes and the increased away support they will bring. No club should be relying on away fans to boost their attendances we need to keep working at our own support not worrying about other teams.

Grrr where did my post go!!! anyway as it sould have said, I live in fax and I can see there would be good support here for a superleague team, but the only way it would happen is for the RFL to get a 16 team SL and that's not gonna happen

But it's not just about support, except nice stadiums what else do quins, cats and Cru offer??

For me they offered somewhere different to watch Wakey for a couple of years now nothing really. They do however fit in with the RFL's expansion plans/dreams and as such will get a franchise.

Dreams is right, they are not going to work until there are other teams close to them, and they must cost the RFL and other clubs lots to keep them there, don't the RFL pay for teams to travel to Cats?