The crowd/atmosphere/being at home has no relevant impact on player performance, a coach/player may say it does but it simply does not.
Oh look I'm more motivated as a player to play better because fans are cheering me, utter gash.
if players are that affected by how much a crowd is cheering then they are mentally weak and/or the mental preparation by the coach is non existant or equally feeble.

Giving away cheap tickets for the Catalans match was a mistake, on the back of last years CC win fans should have being itching to watch the first home game and paid full pop.
Now casual fans are like, meh, you know what I'll wait until we get a £5 offer because there's no way I'm paying £22/£26 to watch that garbage.
I'm a 'casual' attendee in that i don't get to as many games as I'd like, i'll turn up and pay full whack whether we are dog-do or playing great, once I add in travel costs that's £70 straight up but I can do that, it's really when I'm in town/can get up that dictates what games I come to.

for many others though that are deciding whether paying out £xx or even £xxx to come watch us is worth it or a day out somewhere else for a lot less with a guarantee of entertainment/fun that decision is much less likely they'll choose to come watch the rugby.
Times are not what they used to be, there's so much more for families/people to do.

Got to agree with what's being said.
Sometimes it's like morgue in the kc
1500 Leeds fans were louder than us at times on Friday!
The south east corner fans always try to create some atmosphere
but the rest of the stadium tends to drift in and out as the game goes on.
We should be constantly getting up the oppositions noses give them grief
And intimidation. Classic example was Wigan at home last season,
The fans got on Sam Tomkins case the whole game- and it literally took him out of the game

Depends on the chants!

From where i was sat in the south east corner it was fairly quiet and most fans where in disbelief at the shocking attempts at tackling senior players were making. But when we got back to within eight points the noise level went right up and we really got behind them then of course yet more dumb decisions by the idiots on the pitch and the mood sank again then once the gap started opening up again everyone thought f**k this and left. It was the players who let the club down against Leeds and not the fans

Just seen the attendance of 15500 so with 2000 from Leeds thats 13500 from FC up about 3000 from normal so 3000 floating fans paid good money to come back and support the team and the players let them all down - those 3000 fans will probably be thinking twice before coming back again soon imo and that was my original point

Good Friday though, lots won't be at work and in seasons previous it's against the bin dippers so fans need a big game to turn up for. i expect the next home game will be around 11,000, if we beat Cas then that could well go up, if we lose miserably then the casual fans will think, sod it, not wasting my money on that.
It's not about being fickle, it's about judging if spending X is worth it (for any given individual) if the entertainment aren't going to make much effort/be a poor spectacle as per the Salford and Leeds games then why should fans be expected to pay good money (just to avoid being called fickle or unloyal as many do) especially if that is running into three figures when taking kids and drinks/food out into account.

Radford today "Our away support was phenomenal. They lifted us at times."

Yep a pretty good FC 1-13 (on paper) managed to beat the SL new boys who are struggling badly with loads of injuries by just 14 points and it was the fans that made all the difference Fek me without those amazing fans would we have lost again?

So.............why didnt the 13500 home fans against Leeds make any difference then?

Why so angry?

Because your an annoying f**cker

so are you