Re: SL Crowds : Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:37 pm  

I think some peoples 2000 average away support is a little ambitious.

Wire and Saints 2000+ maybe
Wigan1000-1300 (still a good effort)
Hull & Hull KR - depending on if its a Sunday - 400-500
Bradford, Leeds, Cas and Hudds on a sunday - 1000-1500

It will still be a fantastic away support as always however i dont think we'll average to take 2000 fans to all away games.

Re: SL Crowds : Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:55 pm  

Viva La Vikings!! wrote:

I think some peoples 2000 average away support is a little ambitious.

Wire and Saints 2000+ maybe
Wigan1000-1300 (still a good effort)
Hull & Hull KR - depending on if its a Sunday - 400-500
Bradford, Leeds, Cas and Hudds on a sunday - 1000-1500

It will still be a fantastic away support as always however i dont think we'll average to take 2000 fans to all away games.

You think we'll take more to cas and hudds than wigan?

I think you are way off on that one!

Re: SL Crowds : Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:22 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

You think we'll take more to cas and hudds than wigan?

I think you are way off on that one!

I think we'll take around 1000 to Cas. Cas was our first away game in SL last night and i remember our end being rammed. Maybe 1500 to Wigan, think i was a bit off with the earlier figures. I still stand by the fact i think we will average1000-1500 away, not 2000.

Re: SL Crowds : Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:33 pm  

Viva La Vikings!! wrote:

I think we'll take around 1000 to Cas. Cas was our first away game in SL last night and i remember our end being rammed. Maybe 1500 to Wigan, think i was a bit off with the earlier figures. I still stand by the fact i think we will average1000-1500 away, not 2000.

You could be right about that one.

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:56 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

What happened to the other 2 million!?

Will be good to resume our games again, KR were terrific in that season and we had fun ripping the pee out of each other.

Absoloutely, I don't mean to blow our own trumpet but I've not seen a team match that Rovers team of 06' in terms of skill or flair.

On the fan side, it's always fun with Widnes, I always remember being given a right set of abuse by Widnes neanderthals on a bus back from the Town Centre at Wazza after the Grand Final, happy days!

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:05 pm  

ChampagneSuperRovers wrote:

Absoloutely, I don't mean to blow our own trumpet but I've not seen a team match that Rovers team of 06' in terms of skill or flair.

That side was something else for this division. And the Castleford side the year after wasn't bad either. We didn't have much luck pre-licensing.

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:28 pm  

Alex J wrote:

That side was something else for this division. And the Castleford side the year after wasn't bad either. We didn't have much luck pre-licensing.

We made a few mistakes with coaches, and often sides would come down from super league with parachute payments and the skeleton of a super league squad. Hull KR though, I admired what they did that year more than what Castleford managed or Salford. They targetted the year they knew two sides were coming down from SL, where the player pool would be shallower, they hired a young coach which was a risk and they played the best brand of rugby. Deserved what they've got, then and since.

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:16 pm  

The biggest mistake Widnes made post 2007 was FAR too much chopping and changing, a year of not getting to a GF was followed by a 10+ player overhaul of squad (ok 2008 nothing we could do). That Hull KR side had been assembled over a few years and had a good 2005 building to 2006.

Then you only have to look at Sheffield now and Leigh, Fev also, little bits of tinkering each year and become a force, we'd rather get shut and hope those who came in would gel and be a success staright away.

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:25 pm  

J20 wrote:

The biggest mistake Widnes made post 2007 was FAR too much chopping and changing, a year of not getting to a GF was followed by a 10+ player overhaul of squad (ok 2008 nothing we could do). That Hull KR side had been assembled over a few years and had a good 2005 building to 2006.

Then you only have to look at Sheffield now and Leigh, Fev also, little bits of tinkering each year and become a force, we'd rather get shut and hope those who came in would gel and be a success staright away.

This is why Liverpool are so crap incidentally. Spend big, every year, but instead of one or two world class players, it's around 7 average signings like Poulsen.

Re: SL Crowds : Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:32 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

This is why Liverpool are so crap incidentally. Spend big, every year, but instead of one or two world class players, it's around 7 average signings like Poulsen.

Hmmm.... Liverpool's problem in recent (especially under Rafa) years was that it was a one in one out policy to balance the books near enough so we couldn't sign World Class without letting someone else go so we never had a squad of established players it was either a star starter or a youngster / average player trying to make the grade.

Poulsen etc? Let's not even bloody go there