In what way ?

Unfortunatley, RL in the Championship can ill afford to lose 500 fans, never mind 5000!

The most succesful expansion team no less!

What; you mean all 400 of you

There would be 500 less insular moaning small-time idiots trying to stop the spread of the game.

You really believe that fans have that influence ?

You really believe it is my fault that the game is only played where it is played ?

One thing that will help those fans to stop going is the current system we have of no promotion and relegation , teams playing to different rules , a team playing that cannot be relegated , gross mismanagement by the governing body

But it matters not , because those fans are not important , that is a fact in the eyes of the RFL

Thunder should win this one, with a decent score line to. I'm not saying Donny are easy by any means, just Thunder will be more than ready for this fixture.

No, they are just infuriating in their stupidity.

So it's not our fault that the game didn't grow outside the heartlands , but you dont like our discomfort at the RFL messing about with the rules to expand the game

Unfortunatley you cannot have one without the other

I think these might belong to you.



So what do you think the final solution might be to the problem?

If you care to look at the 99 season, Gateshead where getting gates of 6-8 thousand towards the end of the season. That would be expected as its a new team building up etc. This was better than about half the clubs at the time and today. So the potential is there.

Please in future do your research before you speak.

and tells me that without massive external funding no club outside the heartlands is sustainable

You will point out that if the game can expand outside the heartlands then more money will become available to invest in the sport and it will then susrvive and prosper , that is possibly true , but once again the cynic in me tells me that any monies made will not be invested into any existing heartland area's or lower tier clubs

So tell me exactly what benifit to my club and others like it there is to the RFL ' s expansion at all cost strategy ?

Would you follow another club if yours did not exist ?

Maybe you would and that is where we are different , I support my club because it is MY club , from MY town , I grew up following MY hero's playing at the ground I walked past every day

I have no doubt that this opinion is shared by fans of similar clubs to mine , If my club was lost to the sport my town then does just become ' a small town in W1g4n ' , if that was the case then I too would become lost to the sport

My anger is not with you , your club or any club , but with the RFL , they can do things differently , but that require them to work harder and be more open and honest , two things they are either not capable or willing to do