It's a shame as their is stil good quality rugby played in NL1! But with no advertsing or funds for gounds etc people lose interest! Hemce low crowds atmosphere etc!

As longs as the RFL simply presses people to go to their local 'SUPER LEAGUE' side and not simply their local pro side it's gonna stay the same unfortunately

Lets not kid ourselves, we want to be in SL.

I love visiting new grounds and on the whole you dont get as many morons at Championship level Rugby but it does not make up for the lack of Atmosphere and general lack of Emotion during some games. Our recent Home game to Doncaster being a good example.

You dont get games and Atmospheres like that in SL, Even when a club brings few fans they far outdo anything the championship provides.

And i Want to watch Widnes Play against St Helens, Wigan, Wire, London etc. Not because they are better clubs then Keighley or Leigh but because they are a higher standard at the moment and i want us to be competing with the best. If in 10 years time saints are in the Championship and Keighley have the team and Support for SL then i would rather be watching Widnes at Couger Park than Knowsely Road.

Too many pros than cons for us to play in Super League.

Main ones are bigger crowds and more Rugby League banta.

First match in Super League against Saints always sticks out to me when we returned and made a big impact for our first season back .

You must admit it would be a entertaining league to play in ????

PS Lets move on from the Dick Lewis fook up . he knows he`s fooked up and hes ugly tu boot .

The main Clubs Were always ( to my memory anyway ) Bradford, St helens, Wigan and Warrington. No other teams Filled our away stand from what i can remember in SL, Leeds and Hull Were the most dissapointing in so far as meeting expectations was concerned. Wakey, Quins, Castleford and Hudds were usualy shockingly bad.

Cas used to be really bad i can remember when they barely brought 200, all atmosphere has now gone from the ground but imagine the buzz if we were playing Wire this week

That was our first year and it was live on sky.We hammered Leeds but they staged a late fight back.Didn't Hughes sore 3 or 4?Your being generous saying Leeds brought 400.About half that as I recall.Bradfords following that year was huge,as good as we ever got to the Halton.

Sure do mate. Poor following that, although in fairness i think it was Bulls and Stains who were the dominant forces locking horns at the top in 2002. Still no excuse, i think the most we ever took to Shedingly was about 1200, but thats quite good IMHO, when you consider the size of Leeds in comparison to little Widnes. Leeds fans once said to us at their gaff that we put Hudds, Wakey and Quins away following to shame, that;s some achievement when you consider just how much nearer Hudds and Wakey are to Lids.

In terms of best away followings, Stains are only side to fill out away allocation and overspill into both sides, and then probably W**E and bradford, wigan never brought many.

I seem to recall a trip to Leeds when we got battered, with about 5 minutes left some Leeds fans walk past so we all sing "We can see you sneaking out" they replied with "We are only going to get a burger" there was about 20 of them

Also you have to walk past their end before the game, we got a lovely reception of "Widnes scum" and spitting at us as we walked past even though we had my 10 year old cousin with us.

No wonder they are hated in both Rugby and Football.

Remember the 2003 season I think it was, when we played the first game of the year at Headingley? Took around 2k then - was boiling hot despite it being winter!

Think Wigan have took a few big followings here - particularly on a Sunday.

Warrington once brought about 4.5k, when they were on the up and we were getting whooped. But you're right, Saints have the biggest away following.

I think HKR's is the most impressive though. Brought around 1k for a league game 150 miles away in NL1.

Hooja Nikabolokov: Yes mate I recall having to walk past the south stand in order to get some grub, worth the spitting though, seem to remember Headiingley having a pretty impressive food outlet, not the usual 'salmonella on bread crap' we get at a lot of other stadia.
As for Scum, they do seem to have a fair few, but in fairness LUFC always have done, and as they are on the slide Rhino's probablypicked a few wof these bell ends up. 'Leeds service crew' etc. pretty intimidating place, especially as there are so many of them too.

Richardviking: I also recall that 2003 game and it was our dirst domestic game of the year, I remember it well, Daryl Powell was their coach at the time, I remember look at the south stand in awe as they sang 'DP's barmy army' for 10 minutes non stop. Didn't it end up about 32-16? Seem to remember Gary Connolly going the full length in the second half
Are you sure Wires ever top the 4000 mark? Saints crapped on anyone else who came to Naughton park SL era, you're bang on about HKR too mate, fantastic following from them in 2006, probably nearer 1500 tbh, never shut up either. Good fans

Too true but this is the rfl we're talking about. You can bet your bottom dollar that Toulouse will be a higher priority than us next time around regardless of how superior we may be. That is what sucks about this process. The rfl have their own agenda and we cannot take anything for granted. It's only now that we've won something that we are all of a sudden flavour of the month, it just doesn't sit right with me.

good man. 'If you follow leeds United then you must be ***king scum!'