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RUBBISH - cracking day out I thought the first half was boring as hell
Agree ref commentary
folk complain - I went and I have a right to an opinion, not everyone is an armchair watcher as you seem to think, however there must have been a lot of armchair watchers as there werent many in the stadium so what does that tell you.

I never said it was a classic game, I actually said a good day out, fans from wire and the French for a day fans were all having fun outside the stadium and banter inside was good.
What other sporting event can you go too have a laugh with fans of both teams, bump into players from the team you support (Api), chat to one of the commentators on the way home, chat to the match officials after the game, and have a beer with one of the halftime celebrities!
So yep cracking day out! And I am one that think the CC has lost its appeal.
As for the game agree not a classic, but tell you what I bet lot of neutrals enjoyed it, the game had a bit of everything, all the non RL fans I know that watched it said it’s one of the best games they have watched in an age.
As for the armchair critics, obviously there are a lot out there commenting on the crowd, my point was a lot that do that (note I didn’t suggest anyone in particular) comment on how poor the crowds are, turns out they were not there.
It used to happen a fair bit when commenting on london broncos crowds in the past, folk saying how poor, then you ask if they were there, turns out they were not.

Shame you didn’t enjoy the first half though, watching a team play a half with 100% set completion rate I much prefer to a game strewn with handling errors. The second half, was it better by being error strewn? That’s opinion, and in that we will all differ.

you would have two expansion clubs fighting for a major trophy but the potential crowd is what you worry about. Forget the other positives hey.

The crowd on Saturday was not the biggest yes but what did the RFL actually do to attract the population in the SE of England. You need to market these events and that is where the RFL fail miserably.

Catalan were never gonna be able to bring loads of fans due to the expense.

Neutrals in the north would have been put off by the terrible train service. Not being able to get into London direct from the NW is a major problem. Even fans on the east coast saw train prices jacked up high due to the non existent NW line through to London.

I see you have lots of positives in your post.

Think the start of this thread is interesting, expansion not going to work! So Catalan at Wembley, Toulouse and Toronto in qualifiers. Then you see Fev rovers can’t muster 17 players, expansion teams doing better than established teams