Can probably draw a line under this one now. It was a poorly executed mistake and one unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable.

Out of interest how many of you that have complained about the size of the crowd bothered to go yourselves to support the international game in our own city? Indeed how many of you bother to support your own team at Craven Park? (I'm old school) Before you start with the poor facilities on offer, how many of you still go to Wakey and Cas despite what's on offer there?

Attendances for international games have been struggling for a while. Chuck in the Friday night and Scotland being the opposition and it's no real surprise that the stadium wasn't rammed.

Hang on...

In the last five major international matches held in the UK before last weekend we had seen:

- the largest crowd for any international Rugby League game, ever;
- the largest attendance, by some distance, for a Kiwis series since 1947;
- the largest ever attendance for an England/GB vs Kiwis game.

The crowd at Hull KR was somewhat disappointing but the facts are that international RL crowds in this country are at record levels.

FWIW Friday's crowd was also greater than both of the following:

GB vs France, Headingley, 1991 (att: 5,284)
GB vs France, Boulevard, 1992 (att: 5,250)

Completely agree, had it been held in the KC they might have had a 1000 more turn up at best and the atmosphere would have been as bad if not worse. It was a throw away fixture for the RFL and they treat it as such.