Jesus wept......as apologist go, you really are up there! Hughes took control of a SL club with close to 5k average attendances.....I'll thank him when he get's us back there.....until then, 120 extra ST sales is for the Skolars to applaud!

I find myself agreeing with CMG here. Ive been quite underwhelmed with the "Promotion" so far. Please Please prove me wrong but I think this season is going to be quite a mare. Lack of improvement in the squad, Im not talking about spending loads on journey men aussies, but I expected a bit more strength in the squad. There is great work going on at London but a total mare of a season will do us no favours.

Why am I an apologist? I stated what the aims should be this year. Firstly staying in SL which is what this thread is about. On the back of that get more fans through the gate. Pretty simple.

As for raising the profile of the club, pretty sure we had some good coverage in the national press! That's a bit more than a van round Ealing.

Not sure why it has to turn into digging at DH thread

From where I stand a majority of threads on here turn into a digging at DH thread. It's about time someone changed the record

Couldn't àgree more.

Thread is about where we might be in 12 months, not where we were 5 years ago.

So will we finish better than 12th? Get a good start with first few games get some league points early on anything can happen. Key is keeping the squad fit, and making Ealing a difficult place for teams to come too

utter apologistic(sic) tripe, but indicative of the attitude that surrounds the club and 100% of the reason why Hughes continues to ignore the harsh reality that unless he markets the club, it will continue to cost him an arm and a leg.\



As for changing the record? You may think a 1,200 home attendance average is acceptable, but you'd be in the minority and I will continue to say as much until Hughes sells the club or moves on and we get an owner who can grasp the harsh realities of professional sports club ownership.





I didn't bring up building the fan base up...that was you in your normal "cloud cuckoo land" style....you then reckon that a couple of articles in the press pre-Christmas is a major development and will attract fans to the wedding venue in February....





Applauding someone for delivering us back to SL after their own brain farts got us relegated, but with 4,000 fewer fans than when they took control is apologism (sic) at the highest level

Change the record dog ! It's very dull

"The record" is as accurate and correct now as it was in 2002 when I first played it......we have no fans because we do not have the ability to market ourselves and as a direct result of this, when our owner had a hissy fit after a shalocking in the cup semi-final to Wigan, he essentially relegated us. Add to this his insane appointments of Mackay and Powell to positions neither were qualified for and you end up with a professional side, one of the top 11 in the country, playing in front of a few hundred ex pat northerners at a rented wedding venue........



.....if you don't like "the record", then explore what the ignore function is for!

Whey hey well done you got gus an RP into a post on where we will finish in 2019

It's history it's the past, look forward for a change

Yes but we have heard it a what seems like a million times. You never have anything new to say, you just regurgitate the same old story every time. We all have our opinions on DH but I don't want yours rammed down my throat nearly every time I read a thread.

Dog, question for you? Are season ticket sales up from last year? Yes or no is good enough!

That's actually building the fan base.

As for press coverage, not sure what your point is! Do you want the club profile raised or not? National press covers quite a decent area

As a fan of a club who came up in 1999 and were instantly branded as cannon fodder I can tell you it is possible to defy the odds.



However right from the off Wakefield did have a core of SL/NRL players, probably just enough to tip the balance and so it stayed that way for the first four years.



I’m nervous about posting this because we have the poison chalice of playing you first. Added to that trips to London have not always gone well for us in the past. That said there has been a woefull lack of signings on your part so you must be nervous.



It’s not so much the big names it’s that core of hardened pros who make the spine of a team. These players are not flashy but they are important.



I do understand that a club like Trinity finds it easier to coax these players into the team. The distance and cost compared to moving for perhaps one seaon to London is a massive factor. All the same it’s got to be worrying.



Odd as it sounds beating us might not be a good thing for either of us tbh but then I would say that