That disgraceful you posted it twice

It will be tommorrow when your mini bus turns up at Salford

Bet the Wigan and Leeds fans who have stayed at home are gutted to have missed this, fantastic game of RL. Great game to be showing to a primetime BBC2 audience.

Today's game was a real credit to both teams. Can't ask for more than that.



I blame London for the crowd.

Ney, we got a double decker tomorrow !!

Well something's wrong. We've just seen a great product, again (although the refereeing errors were somewhat embarrassing - I say that as a Wigan fan, but accepting that Leeds were much better regardless, so I say it genuinely without bitterness). A great product that they can't sell (to fans or sponsors). In any other business with the same problem you'd conclude that the management needed to do some thinking or get out. But no, it's 'the fans fault'. Try running a business, where, if your product doesn't sell you just say 'it's the customers fault for not being d' - trust me, you won't last long.



If it is as simple as 'they can't be d', then lets find out WHY they can't be d. It won't be one reason, it'll be lot's of reasons and different ones for different people, but the RFL should be desperately canvassing those Wigan and Leeds fans that *didn't go* to find out why. I have a few ideas, but to be honest, mine are probably as wrong as anyone else's guesses. We don't need to guess. The RFL need to get their heads out of their a***s and find out what the problem is, rather than spending their time defending themselves.

Certainly not blaming the ref - Leeds out-enthused us and kept their heads when against the wall, we fell apart and kept forcing a wonder play that wasn't on.



But - two horrible decisions led to tries and influenced the game massively - the blatant forward pass in the first half and McGuire's knock-on in the second. Got to point the at blame Tomkins and Hock though, if they'd played to the whistle Leeds might not have scored. But if the video ref is available for the knock-on why not use him??



Anyway, congrats Leeds, better team on the day.



[size=85Ps I've not gone because I've been playing.[/size

Wonder when the last official CC Semi-Final sell-out was, Bradford v Leeds in 99 at Galpharm perhaps? (I only know that cos I was there as a neutral and it was a 24,000+ full-house).

What frightens me is the thought that there are people at the RFL who agree with you... "nowt we can do, its the fans fault". What hope have we got with that attitude?

What I dont get is that when Leeds played Toulouse in a semi a few years back there was an 18k crowd there! And it was mostly Leeds fans. The cup is dead and I am not even bothered.

"I'm not blaming the ref but...



(Spends a whole paragraph explaining how the refereeing decisions cost Wigan)"



Yeah...

Nail. Head. Hit.