Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:50 am  

Sebasteeno wrote:

Love the way the cuddle crew seem to trying to be blaming me (and about 5000 others) for Lineham being sold. All most of us have wanted is to feel confident that the team we pay to watch are putting the effort in and being entertaining. For me, the mrs and kids to go watch FC its £100+ and quite frankly the rugby has been dire for years with repeated false dawns and abject performances but whilst and im not rich and can easily find better and more enjoyable things to blow £100 on. That said ive got renewed optimism to the point that i plan on attending the Cas/Wakey home games so call me fickle, i dont care

5,000 others? Really?

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:00 am  

*1865* wrote:

5,000 others? Really?

Yeah well seen as attendances are fudged to include people who arnt there and the tickets the smc buy id say around five thousand lost in five years so about a third of fans

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:01 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

We're a club, not a 3rd party service provider.

Thought we were a business, make your mind up

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:05 am  

Kosh wrote:

My daughter will be upset as he's he favourite player. No doubt she'll get over it.

If true he wants to leave - and I have no reason to believe otherwise, recent interviews notwithstanding - then my opinion of him is frankly unfit for family consumption. I have zero sympathy for players who quit on us while contracted unless there are exceptional circumstances. If either Lancaster or Naughton are fit I'd drop him and let him spend the rest of the season at Donny.

Yes, I am a vindictive old b'stard.

Well blinking said. It hink first post ive agreed with you.

But i'd make him prop every game at Donny

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:06 am  

Sebasteeno wrote:

Yeah well seen as attendances are fudged to include people who arnt there and the tickets the smc buy id say around five thousand lost in five years so about a third of fans

And ALL of those are people who are disgruntled with the club, like you?
Think you'll find there's been a decline at every club in those years. In Hull there's also the Hull City factor, people would rather watch premier league football than Hull or Rovers.
Those that are turning their backs (less than a thousand for me) will be the first in line for CC final tickets or GF tickets. Fickle.

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:07 am  

westdock boy in oz wrote:

And three & a half years of under achievement since he took over?????
i25k/140k is a steal for a 22yr old of his ability, & I don't buy `it doesn't matter' because
we have Lancaster & Naughton, - they've only played a handful of games between them.
Lower crowds Imo is down to the excruciatingly boring rugby served up over the last couple of seasons.
Exciting players attract crowds - we have 2 - Lineham, & Shaul who if the rumours have any substance is
also on his way out.
A couple of years ago our backline was Shaul (McDonnel) Lineham, Crooks, Yeaman, Briscoe
Young/ promising , all with their best years in front of them (OK one obvious exception) If Shaul goes we've lost the lot,
except Yeaman. - Progress?????

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:10 am  

*1865* wrote:

Think you'll find there's been a decline at every club in those years.

Think Leigh, Fev, Catalan will tell you thay have gron crowds over the last 5 years.

Rovers Udders and a few others have been very stagnant over the last vew years.

We have gone from 14k to sub 9k, a fall that only Bradford can beat

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:36 am  

frepneyboy wrote:

Think Leigh, Fev, Catalan will tell you thay have gron crowds over the last 5 years.

Leigh and Fev are not even in SL and Catalan saw a 500 drop in average attendance from 2013 to last season.

frepneyboy wrote:

Rovers Udders and a few others have been very stagnant over the last vew years.

Rovers averaged over 8,500 in 2009 compared to just over 7,800 last year. Hudds I'll give you, they've always been shiite though.

frepneyboy wrote:

We have gone from 14k to sub 9k, a fall that only Bradford can beat

You want to say sub 9k because we massage attendance figures now, but don't want to do that from 5 years ago when we averaged 14k+?
Of course we've had a massive reduction, but it's simply not only down to disgruntled fans as was stated.

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:43 am  

*1865* wrote:

Leigh and Fev are not even in SL and Catalan saw a 500 drop in average attendance from 2013 to last season.

Rovers averaged over 8,500 in 2009 compared to just over 7,800 last year. Hudds I'll give you, they've always been shiite though.

You want to say sub 9k because we massage attendance figures now, but don't want to do that from 5 years ago when we averaged 14k+?
Of course we've had a massive reduction, but it's simply not only down to disgruntled fans as was stated.

Catalan dropped 500. nothing compared to us.

I'd still say we are the biggest fallers other than Bratfut

Re: Lineham.. : Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:53 am  

frepneyboy wrote:

Catalan dropped 500. nothing compared to us.

I'd still say we are the biggest fallers other than Bratfut

Percentage drops are the best way to measure this and Wakefield are by far the worst in that regard.