20% drop and the mighty Fax have already invaded the Stobart!

fax invaded and still brought sod all, one day the away end will be opened up

To be completely honest my interest has waned recently...
I have a season ticket and haven't missed a home match yet. I think I have only missed the Salford Friendly and the Sheffield away games this year and had decent reasons for that..
I will, without question, be getting a season ticket next year but I am in no way as excited about this season as I was in previous years.
Even though we have nicked games in the last few minutes, lost games in the last few minutes and have played some genuinely good rugby I still feel a little flat.

I can't quite put my finger on it but I can only think that there isn't really any particular goal for us this year. In seasons gone by it was vital to finish in the top two if not top of the league and then the real excitement would peak going into the play-offs. Each game was about accruing those all important league points and seeing what teams around us had done that weekend.
This year I genuinely think from a performance point of view a top four finish (maybe top 6) would be good enough for what we want to achieve.

Personally speaking I think most of the focus will be on a decision made next year. Following that I think there will either be a carnival atmosphere around the club or it will be just terrible.
If I am feeling this way at the moment then I think it will be quite a struggle to attract some of the stay-aways or new fans.
SOC said when he first arrived.. there are a lot of plans to attract new fans from surrounding areas but it is vital to bringing people in and retaining them that we are in SL.
This competition just isn't that attractive to new fans and we are losing a few people as a result of being in here.

This is the very reason why as Starbug says the championship clubs need to get together and make the Championship a competition in its own right or RL outside of Super Dooper league will wither and die.

25th July

We weren't knocked back because of our ground, we had planning permission to develop it.

We were knocked back because the RFL, under pressure from Sky, wanted London Broncos in Super League.

Maurice Lindsay with the backing of Br*dford, who were fearful of what Keighley and the rise of Cougarmania was doing to their own attendances, changed their rules 4 weeks from the end of the season.

We were sh@ on, and with respect to some of the things that have happened to Widnes over the years, it was the most disgraceful thing to happen in the history of our game. We lost our major sponsor on the back of not going up and the ensuing financial meltdown destoyed our club.

To this day every Keighlian despises everything and anything to do with Br*dford because of what happened.

Don't blame you mate. We all understand the feeling around here. People are constantly being taken advantage of in this sport. And look at Bradford now. They've had their fifteen minutes. Think what could've been for Keighley and where they went afterwards. I remember you lot being strong in this division. You were a pain in the . I hope one day you recover to what you once were.

I recall huge play off gates v Widnes, Oldham at HP.

That semi final v Leigh at HP was delayed for 10 minutes due to crowd congestion. We took over 3,000 to leigh that day and had the away end rocking.

Hey no offence to our fellow Yorkshire sides but we only get 20 to 50 fans maximum from clubs like Batley, Keighley, Dewsbury and Sheffield and that is on the top side sadly, some only bring 10 or 20 which is very sad, what has RL done to itself? So that is not a bonus to us tbh.
The only clubs who have good support outside SL are us (we could do better with a Cup/GF winning team so this year has been a disaster for us so far), Leigh, Fev (when they are on the up like now but too small a place to ever get big crowds) and Widnes.
The Cumbrian teams have too far to travel so don't bring that many even with a winning team.

You werent there then the other year when Barrow brought around 500 to the Shay ?

Are you really down nigh on 800 speccies ?