Playing devils advocate here and knowing your liking for club communications...............how do you think we would have dealt with the same situation if we had been in Leighs shoes?.......personally I would have loved our chairman to have come out all guns blazing and not merely accepted the decision with a whimper.

Appreciate your honesty , are you originally from up north

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I cannot understand where ya coming from

In all honesty, I never thought about how I or the other fan (s) in London or the club would have reacted to not being granted a licence. The reason being is that you know as well as I do that we are the b'stard son of Richard Lewis and Rupert Murdoch and therefore were bolted on from the start.

I do feel for the fans of clubs that didn't get in, but on the plus side, the Championship is a very entertaining league and it will have done no harm to clubs like Leigh, Fax and Widnes to have spent 3 more years getting their houses in order, whilst the spotlight sits firmly on the origami stadium clubs.

Believe me, if the clubs that were warned still have'nt laid foundation stones in 2 years, but are left in SL at the expense of clubs with better bids, I will probably fly back from New Zealand and help you give Lewis a good (verbal) kicking!

You mean like slowly losing their fan base because many see it as having nothing to play for ?



The clubs in the championship are similar in many ways to Quins , they lack the same things at their matches , fans and atmosphere , and nobody seems to have a clue how to improve it , especially the RFL

oh...OK. So the prospect of winning the railaway mug or the grand final, to use as part of your application isn't exciting? OK.

Fans drifting away....so glory hunters then, not fans. As it is, I have been to the Skolars on a few occassions to watch them. I am a fan of the game firstly, then my club and if I can see a win, then all the better. I would never stop following my club just because they were in a lower division.



As for the atmosphere at the stoop......I have many ideas on how to improve gates........it's just the men with the money would rather spend time and resource on the community projects and to be fair to them, if I had been in charge since 1996 we probably wouldn't have young cockney RL internationsl.....but I can assure you, we would be averaging over 10,000 for home games.

so hardly could be classed as ' glory hunters ' , as for the lower division bit , well yes but we have been there a long time so it's not like it is something new is it



The point about the atmosphere is that is what brings in and keeps new fans interested , and as we are losing old'existing ones we need to replace them , but with what as incentive ?

Hang around: weren't you just saying yesterday how your exciting relegation battle provided all the interest … ?

For me , yes in a masochistic way

I find the games at the moment more interesting than I did at the start of the season



Then again



" its so nice to be ins...... "

aha....we agree.

The average age of your regular fan at most RL games, regardless of division, is far too old. The 40+ lot (that's me) are good for now, but we need the ankle biters to start watching the game. As a working class sport, RL used to survive on 3 generations of fans at games...stood together, with grandpa telling the others how soft the modern game is!

We need to get that back!

I know you are right.



You know you are right



99.99% of British rugby League fans know you are right.



Yet if you tell them over on the Harlequins board you will end up getting banned