Just give the Yewtree team a call

I just don't get why someone would watch a team play 27 games over 8 months with the aim of making the play-offs. Then when the team makes the play-offs and the games mean something you don't bother to go.

Money isn't an excuse, it was only £15, if you really wanted to go you could have saved a couple of quid a month throughout the season knowing you'd have to pay for a play-off ticket come September.

Stop talking such commonsense. That will get you nowhere round here.

Agree 100%

A lot of people arent interested in knock out rugby till we get close to a final.

It's not only £15 if you are a family. Two adults, two children and car parking comes to rather more than £15, I suspect. And it may surprise you to learn that people have other things in their lives than rugby league.

It would have cost upwards of £60 for my family to go to that game. Thats why we buy season passes.

Airlie Street is just another muppet who loves rugby just a little too much and berates others for not being the superfan he is.

I think the fact that we finished 6th this year and last year but got a bigger attendance last year than this year says a lot. Last year we had a poor showing against Widnes but turned it around with a 70-6 win (the biggest win for years) followed by a good win at home to Castleford. There was an upbeat feel and we were playing well.

This year we had a poor showing against Wigan at Wembley which we getting over is easier said than done, the win in the league was maybe fortuitous, I didn't go, then we have I dare say an even worse showing at home to Saints with a home play off unlikely. With that leading up to it you can see why we had more last year despite finishing in the same position. My dad and I went but he wasn't sure about it. Our home form was also much worse this year

I'm not judging anyone for not going, I miss plenty of games over the season due to work and other commitments, I just don't understand the mindset of someone that invests so much time and money across the season only to be not bothered when the games mean something.

Suddenly 6,000 people are too busy to go to a game?

If the tickets were included in their passes I'm sure their hectic social schedules would have been put on hold, that's just a ridiculous argument.

Like I said, I'm not judging people for not going, that would be hypocritical because I haven't been to every game this season, I just don't understand the mindset of people who invest 8 months in something and then don't see it out.

To be fair it's not restricted to our fans, it happens across the league.

You should read what's posted before jumping head first into a response. You'll look less daft, that way. Some will have stayed at home for financial reasons, some because of work/social commitments and others in protest at the performance served up the week before. How many fall into each category is impossible to know without carrying out an exhaustive survey.



It perhaps would have been, had that been the argument put forward.



Doesn't sound like it.

if the team dont allways turn up for games why should the fans?. poor recruitment this close season will only make things worse

The first is understandable but avoidable (for reasons explained previously), the second happens every week and the third is personal preference but only highlights my point.



True it wasn't, I have put that argument forward to highlight the huge flaw in yours.



You should read what's posted before jumping head first into a response. You'll look less daft, that way.

This is pointless, your obviously trying to justify your reasons or others for not attending, your wasting your time because I don't care, each to their own and all that.

What I am questioning is the way fans across the league invest so much time and money watching their teams battle for the play-offs only to not be bothered when they get there, seems bizarre to me.

And I think that RG's point is that it's not that they're 'not bothered', it's that they have other reasons for not being able/willing to pay for the earlier matches.

Yes. As I mentioned earlier in the thread (or maybe the VT one), I have paid out more than £700 in vet's fees this month. This was an unexpected expense that during the regular season wouldn't have stopped me attending as I had a season pass. When I would have had to pay for a ticket, it did prevent me from going.