Quote Great King Rat="Great King Rat"Well I personally think 5000 for the FIRST EVER SL GAME is pretty average. You're missing my point. If they wanted this so badly there should have been 10000 plus (if the ground holds that many). Who knows whether we could do better, one things for sure we couldn't do any worse! As for your 'guarantee', I'll have a tenner says they don't get more than 7000 against Hull FC in 2011.'"
5000 for 1st ever game in a area "that will never take to RL", during this financial climate is a very good effort.
Hopefully this will continue. But as pointed out they need to get some scalps to help them do this.
Leigh in SL, in a new stadium would have beaten 5000 of course. Of that I have no doubt, and got a good average - considering the number of derbies on our doorstep it would have been a big let down if we didn't. using our SL2005 season as example, we would have got more fans going to LSV than we got last season without a single Leigh fan going. Just one of the pro's of being in the heartland.
What I would like to know is why did we get less home fans going to W1gan game than against Salford (or at best similar), when historically we have had much better in the past ? Those are better questions to start a thread rather than starting one that has another go at a new club that is trying to get a foothold down there.
I think W71 is correct in most of what he said, because the final decision was a farce (and I said it at the time). But I do think we had lucky escape by not being put in with benefit of hindsight. Celtic in SL is correct decision
(IMO), and had to be done. It was the reasoning given that stunk and conned us into thinking a genuine process was in place and teams in SL where at a threat etc.
