Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:15 pm  

With us beating bradford 84-6 today i think that might have an input to the crowd attendance for the cup game on sunday i think it will be very low as if we can score 84 points against a suoer league team how many are we going to score against a championship one team

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:19 pm  

Tickets are very reasonable on Sunday and they will need to be to draw an attendance.

As much as it's never good to see a superleague game as farcical as that, it was pleasing to look in to the future and see young lads like Hampshire and Williams toy with an opposition defence like that. They were both exceptionally good I thought. I've been particularly impressed with Williams recently. He's grown in confidence each week and looks a real threat with ball in hand.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:52 pm  

I don't personally think that today's result will have a massive impact.

Regardless of if we won or lost today the CC fixture, imo, is already a foregone conclusion.

For me there's just no excitement for the game. In seasons gone by you always had some intrigue thinking what youngsters might come in on debut. This season all of our exciting young talent have already played plenty of SL games AND proven themselves good enough.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:56 pm  

I hope Waney adds that bit of excitement by maybe throwing one or two of Gildart, Connor Farrell, Pugsley etc in.

Surely Farrell especially is due a shot!

[DaveO]

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:59 pm  

I think they will give us a better game than Bradford. I still think we will win of course but I will be going.

It's another chance to watch the team and despite the one sided nature of the game today there was lots to smile about compared to some of the other games against opposition we should have beaten easier than we did. Things "clicked" today and that in itself was good to watch.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:08 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Tickets are very reasonable on Sunday and they will need to be to draw an attendance.

As much as it's never good to see a superleague game as farcical as that, it was pleasing to look in to the future and see young lads like Hampshire and Williams toy with an opposition defence like that. They were both exceptionally good I thought. I've been particularly impressed with Williams recently. He's grown in confidence each week and looks a real threat with ball in hand.

What might interest a lot of fans is to play an halfback partnership that as been sublime in the last couple of years at under 19s level.
I do not think they have played together at first team level, apart from maybe in pre season friendlies.

All Wane has to do is pair Hampshire with Williams together in the halves with Bowen at fullback and Smith on the bench to cover for MM thereby giving Green a rest this week.

There is nothing nicer than to see a young half back partnership continue a development which showed a lot of promise at Junior level through into senior rugby.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:19 pm  

stillinthepast wrote:

What might interest a lot of fans is to play an halfback partnership that as been sublime in the last couple of years at under 19s level.
I do not think they have played together at first team level, apart from maybe in pre season friendlies.

All Wane has to do is pair Hampshire with Williams together in the halves with Bowen at fullback and Smith on the bench to cover for MM thereby giving Green a rest this week.

There is nothing nicer than to see a young half back partnership continue a development which showed a lot of promise at Junior level through into senior rugby.

Hampshire at fullback with Powell and smith in the halves and Williams on bench would be my guess for Hunslet.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:38 pm  

I spoke to a member of our playing squad earlier.

He described it as embarrassing for Bradford as we scored with absolute ease almost every time we got the ball.

Just to add, this was not said in a cocky "how embarrassing they are, chortle ha ha" way.

More that he felt sorry for them and slightly embarrassed at the same time

How the mighty have fallen eh?

Playing the Bulls at the height of Bullmania was about as intimidating as it got. They are so far away from that now, it almost defies logic.

Real shame IMO

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:32 pm  

tugglesf78 wrote:

I spoke to a member of our playing squad earlier.

He described it as embarrassing for Bradford as we scored with absolute ease almost every time we got the ball.

Just to add, this was not said in a cocky "how embarrassing they are, chortle ha ha" way.

More that he felt sorry for them and slightly embarrassed at the same time

How the mighty have fallen eh?

Playing the Bulls at the height of Bullmania was about as intimidating as it got. They are so far away from that now, it almost defies logic.

Real shame IMO

I'm not sorry for their fans.

After one of the two Grand Finals we lost against them in the early 2000s, my grandson and I were unfortunate enough to spend 10 minutes in a tram with a great gang of them, and were subjected to the worst behaviour I've ever seen by any RL fans in any circumstance ever.

I'm sure that lot were all the sort of fair weather supporters who would have dropped the Bulls at the first sign of trouble and now don't even remember following them, but I will never forget the events of that night. The Bradford club all but disappeared in my estimation as a result.

Re: Will it put people off : Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:38 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

I'm not sorry for their fans.

After one of the two Grand Finals we lost against them in the early 2000s, my grandson and I were unfortunate enough to spend 10 minutes in a tram with a great gang of them, and were subjected to the worst behaviour I've ever seen by any RL fans in any circumstance ever.

I'm sure that lot were all the sort of fair weather supporters who would have dropped the Bulls at the first sign of trouble and now don't even remember following them, but I will never forget the events of that night. The Bradford club all but disappeared in my estimation as a result.

Mixed feelings on this... But i'm bloody certain they would have no sympathy for us in the same situation...