Re: RFL goes Manc : Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:13 am  

Scarey71 wrote:

Maybe the smaller grounds and proximity to the pitch of away grounds provides that atmosphere and that's what draws people to away games. It's far more entertaining to be in that kind environment.

Cougar Park Sunday

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Re: RFL goes Manc : Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:09 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Except we didn't. I attended every home and away game back when we were in Super League and I remember the last couple of years when the away following had massively dwindled. It was nowhere near 2,000.

That's correct Hamster, and to be fair, only shows how much the fans making up the current away following are investing in the management and coaching set up. The club is much smaller now on just about any scale you choose to use but the "buzz" around the place is massive.

Re: RFL goes Manc : Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:51 pm  

Cross Hills Cougar wrote:

On the subject of the benefit of away fans, somebody else on the Forum wrote:

JESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Wakefield is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.

There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them.

You seem to be a histrionic sort of chap. Maybe you chould calm down a little. No need to shout.

If you did, then you would remember that normally the game against the Bulls was a red letter day for the coffers of most clubs, and this is because it was back in the day an extremely attractive fixture. So your "pluck out of the air" figure of 1000 fans is nonsensical and irrelevant. The only relevant measure for a club is the total of speccies attracted to any given game. The total. They don't care where they are from, they don't care if they are home oraway fans, they just care about the total.

Only an idiot or troll would deny that very consistently for all clubs their fixture against the Bulls was one of the biggest attendances and biggest income days they had.

That has, on a smaller scale, remained true in the Championship, and now in League 1 York broke their home crowd record by over 1000. The crowd was well over 4000. How many from Bradford? Plenty, but that really doesn't matter, now does it? We delivered the club by a very long way their biggest ever home payday and it won't be the last. And that's when we are a fallen club in the lower league doldrums.

the Keighley News reported:

KEIGHLEY Cougars head coach Craig Lingard believes that a large crowd can inspire a famous victory for his side in Sunday's eagerly-anticipated derby clash with Bradford Bulls.

It is the first time the two clubs have met in league action for 41 years and Cougar Park will be buzzing as Craig Lingard's men tackle the BetFred League One championship favourites.

Lingard said: ..."This is certainly a massive match"

So maybe swallow your pride and attempt to reconnect with reality.