: Wed May 27, 2009 12:04 am
the club will now revert to being the Leeds Tykes, as the GP has a ban on sponsors names (which is all Carnegie is).
Tykes average crowds in 07-8 were in the region of 7k, which is part of a consistent increase over the last few years. With Back & Key in charge, the signings seem to be being made (lock from Leicester & back rower from Bristol) so far to keep us up.
There's also a hardcore of honest GP level pros in the current side, such as MacDonald, Rawlinson, Murphy, Fourie, Barrow & Hinton. It simply remains for the attraction of a few extras in key areas-Chris Whittaker and Henry Fa'afili have been mentioned-and I'm confident leeds (now by agreement the fittest side in the GP due to Backy's conditioning regime) will stay up. Especially as Newcastle look so shocking.