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| Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England.
Many of us have enjoyed visiting Perpignan and have boosted the economy of the city year after year. What have you done for the English clubs and their cities and towns? How long can this ridiculous situation be sustained, particularly in the prevailing recession? Many English clubs are losing money and they could really do with a club in the SL who can provide fans through the gates TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, rather than yourselves. You contribute nothing to the finances of other SL clubs, whilst most SL clubs contibute much to Catalans Dragons. Would you be happy if the situation were reversed?
The game needs to expand but WILL NOT be helped by this continuing farcical situation. Charity starts at home (ie: England), not in France!
The usual response to such posts is to call the poster a 'flat capper'. Do so if you wish but I'd rather hear from someone who could provide a solution which would actually see your club making a positive contribution.
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| I know we aren't a lot of fans for every game but you should understand that travelling every week, or every two weeks, is very expensive. You must pay the hotel, food and beers, taxis or/and trains tickets, without forgetting the fly.
We are some huge rugby league fans and of course, we support our team, but we can afford the trip every week. So we prefer going in England for the best games, like play-offs, CC Finals, SL final and Magic Week-End !
If my club was located in England and I lived in England, I would go to every game, at home or away !
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| Quote: Sunset "Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England.
Many of us have enjoyed visiting Perpignan and have boosted the economy of the city year after year. What have you done for the English clubs and their cities and towns? How long can this ridiculous situation be sustained, particularly in the prevailing recession? Many English clubs are losing money and they could really do with a club in the SL who can provide fans through the gates TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, rather than yourselves. You contribute nothing to the finances of other SL clubs, whilst most SL clubs contibute much to Catalans Dragons. Would you be happy if the situation were reversed?
The game needs to expand but WILL NOT be helped by this continuing farcical situation. Charity starts at home (ie
The NRL is a very successful rugby league competition played in Australia and New Zealand, where rugby league is very popular, much more popular than in the UK and France.
In the NRL there are clubs called North Queensland Cowboys and Melbourne Storm which never bring many supporters to most of their away games. There are also 9 Sydney clubs most of whose fans never attend away games in Queensland and Melbourne. Yet this NRL is a successsful competition which is becomng more successful and richer her every year. And I have never heard the NRL club fans complaining about the far away NRL teams not bringing fans to away games. This kind of complaining seems to be just a problem of a few small thinking English fans from small English towns who cannot see the big picture.
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| Quote: Tom_13 "I know we aren't a lot of fans for every game but you should understand that travelling every week, or every two weeks, is very expensive. You must pay the hotel, food and beers, taxis or/and trains tickets, without forgetting the fly.
We are some huge rugby league fans and of course, we support our team, but we can afford the trip every week. So we prefer going in England for the best games, like play-offs, CC Finals, SL final and Magic Week-End !
If my club was located in England and I lived in England, I would go to every game, at home or away !
Thanks for your response Tom but your enthusiasm doesn't help to pay the bills at the clubs in England, whereas I would imagine that the contribution from English fans to your club helps them to afford the quality of players they currently have. It's just not a fair, balanced situation and I'm not sure how long it can be sustained. Your club need to start thinking of a solution.
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "Have you heard of the NRL?
This is a very successful rugby league competition played in Australia and New Zealand, where rugby league is very popular, much more popular than in the UK and France.
In the NRL there are clubs called North Queensland Cowboys and Melbourne Storm which never bring many supporters to most of their away games. There are also 9 Sydney clubs most of whose fans never attend away games in Queensland and Melbourne. Yet this NRL is a successsful competition which is becomng more successful and richer her every year. And I have never heard the NRL club fans complaining about the far away NRL teams not bringing fans to away games. This kind of complaining seems to be just a problem of a few small thinking English fans from small English towns who cannot see the big picture.'"
This may be news to you but SL is not the NRL! So you think the situation is fair? Are you not aware of the financial problems some SL clubs are having? Again, would you be happy if the situation were reversed and French clubs were making a massive contribution to one English club without that English club doing anything in return?
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| Quote: Tom_13 "I know we aren't a lot of fans for every game but you should understand that travelling every week, or every two weeks, is very expensive. You must pay the hotel, food and beers, taxis or/and trains tickets, without forgetting the fly.
We are some huge rugby league fans and of course, we support our team, but we can afford the trip every week. So we prefer going in England for the best games, like play-offs, CC Finals, SL final and Magic Week-End !
If my club was located in England and I lived in England, I would go to every game, at home or away !
Well said, how people expect you Catalan fans to pay for flights, hotels and everything else you mentioned everyother week is crazy.
The rfl want s/l to expand so fans like Sunset should get off there high horse, blame the rfl not Catalan fans.
Oh and by the way, there was 2 Cats fans I saw in the east stand today so you did bring some after all that haha.
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| Quote: "Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England.
Many of us have enjoyed visiting Perpignan and have boosted the economy of the city year after year. What have you done for the English clubs and their cities and towns? How long can this ridiculous situation be sustained, particularly in the prevailing recession? Many English clubs are losing money and they could really do with a club in the SL who can provide fans through the gates TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, rather than yourselves. You contribute nothing to the finances of other SL clubs, whilst most SL clubs contibute much to Catalans Dragons. Would you be happy if the situation were reversed?
The game needs to expand but WILL NOT be helped by this continuing farcical situation. Charity starts at home (ieI'm sure if you offer to pay for their travel costs and accommodation every two weeks then plenty of French fans would be more than happy to visit and 'contribute' to your club.
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| Quote: Sunset "Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England.
Many of us have enjoyed visiting Perpignan and have boosted the economy of the city year after year. What have you done for the English clubs and their cities and towns? How long can this ridiculous situation be sustained, particularly in the prevailing recession? Many English clubs are losing money and they could really do with a club in the SL who can provide fans through the gates TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, rather than yourselves. You contribute nothing to the finances of other SL clubs, whilst most SL clubs contibute much to Catalans Dragons. Would you be happy if the situation were reversed?
The game needs to expand but WILL NOT be helped by this continuing farcical situation. Charity starts at home (ie
What a stupid post. Each English club will only travel to France ONCE each season. On that basis Cats should only visit England once. I wonder which club they will choose to visit. A real poser eh????
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| Quote: Sunset "Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England. '"
Gosh. A game with two weeks notice and you're expecting people to travel a thousand miles to get there.
Quote: Sunset "your enthusiasm doesn't help to pay the bills at the clubs in England'"
Any club relying on away support to make ends meet has serious underlying issues that are better addressed by looking internally than blaming some people at the other end of the continent from not going to east Hull for a Sunday afternoon out.
Yet again, it's Hull KR fans (not all of them, before anyone shouts at me) obsessed with away support. Why is this?
All that said, it's kind of nice to have a thread like this again. It's like it's 2007 all over again.
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| Quote: John_D "Gosh. A game with two weeks notice and you're expecting people to travel a thousand miles to get there.
Any club relying on away support to make ends meet has serious underlying issues that are better addressed by looking internally than blaming some people at the other end of the continent from not going to east Hull for a Sunday afternoon out.
Yet again, it's Hull KR fans (not all of them, before anyone shouts at me) obsessed with away support. Why is this?
All that said, it's kind of nice to have a thread like this again. It's like it's 2007 all over again.'"
Hold on John, 1 alleged Hull KR fan is obsessed with your away support, personally I wouldn't expect many fans to come over to England every other week as I stated above.
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| Quote: bishops finger "Hold on John, 1 alleged Hull KR fan is obsessed with your away support, personally I wouldn't expect many fans to come over to England every other week as I stated above.'"
Over the years, it's become something of a cliché that there's a fixation on away fans east of the river Hull.
Your rational comments are more than welcome as a counterpoint to that.
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| Quote: Sunset "Yet again today, no presence at all from your fans at a game in England.
Many of us have enjoyed visiting Perpignan and have boosted the economy of the city year after year. What have you done for the English clubs and their cities and towns? How long can this ridiculous situation be sustained, particularly in the prevailing recession? Many English clubs are losing money and they could really do with a club in the SL who can provide fans through the gates TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, rather than yourselves. You contribute nothing to the finances of other SL clubs, whilst most SL clubs contibute much to Catalans Dragons. Would you be happy if the situation were reversed?
The game needs to expand but WILL NOT be helped by this continuing farcical situation. Charity starts at home (ie
I've read some crap in my time but that's up there with the very best (or should that be worst) of them.
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| Quote: Hillsborough Lad "I've read some crap in my time but that's up there with the very best (or should that be worst) of them.'"
Succinct and to the point. Like it ![CLAP eusa_clap.gif](images/smilies//eusa_clap.gif)
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