Year upon year, empty seats, quality product.



Such a shame.



The final legacy of Nigel Wood.



Destroyed everything he put his mind to.



He's got shares in GB swimming ironically

Does he double up as a giant inflatable!!

He'd empty the pool upon impact.

They should combine magic and the summer bash over the bank holiday weekend make it a three day event

With the standards of play in the game at the minute, a dozen games over 3 days would leave even the most hardened fan ready to top themselves!

Just make sure you take a break when Leeds are playing and you should be alright.

Just continuity from magic weekend

Huge crowd at this game.

Whoever decided the fixtures needs shooting. One of yesterday's games should have been the main event today and batley v dewsbury the middle game today.



That said, crowds at events like this will dwindle with copious amounts of expansion sides as they bring little to no support at events like this.



It could be a better event next year potentially:



Sheffield v Barrow

Dewsbury v batley

Leigh v salford



York v london

Halifax v bradford

Widnes v fev

How is it Nigel,s fault if people are not interested? No one will acknowledge the elephant in the room” there are an aging few of us that love the game but the numbers are dwindling “ Our great game is no longer played in schools, all sports are finding it hard to get kids playing & those that follow the sport are mostly from lower earning communities that the advertisers are not interested in. Non of the afore mentioned are any fault of Nigel Wood or the RFL.

Why ?



Maybe they should have the summer bash when there aren't any SL fixtures, which would hopefully see SL fans turn up to watch some Championship Rugby.



There have been some cracking fixtures this weekend but, unless you are a hardened RL fan, you wouldnt even know that the event was taking place and therein lies the problem.



If they have sold plenty of tickets for the weekend, there's no problem with empty seats.



Marketing, advertising, marketing, advertising, marketing, advertising, marketing, advertising,

Combined attendence over two days considerably less than leeds average weekly attendence but these “traditional clubs” want to rule the roost dictate to the big super league clubs on league structure on every issue.

I'm not saying it should happen I was just putting a suggestion to answer the OP the fact is you could put the summer bash in a 3000 seater stadium and it would be still empty all teams playing today struggle to get a 1000 fans to a home game

I'm critical of the RFL on lots of things at the minute, but what exactly were people expecting to happen when HullKR and Bradford are no longer in this event? You could run a massive worldwide TV ad campaign and Batley - Dewsbury would still be of no interest outside a corner of West Yorkshire.