So 1 8k crowd at Wakefield makes up for the previous 30 rounds of terrible crowds at both Wakefield and a Bradford?

I would have been a lot happier with the format if one side had not been able to spend so much more and so late. Next year the date for new signings needs to be a good month earlier to stop the influx of new bodies for the teams in the bottom four.

Bradford's attendances have been pretty decent all year. 9k against Leigh and 7.5k at their place. When's the last time the championship got those sort of attendances.

How do you define a terrible crowd for Bradford? We've averaged over 5k a game which for a championship club is pretty good. Especially when you consider it's a better average than Salford and Wakefield and is pushing towards Widnes and Huddersfield.

I'm not really interested in attendances we have to qualify, you can't take those qualifications to the bank.



Bradford's attendances are currently terrible.

For a SL club, sure. But not for a Championship club which is what we currently are.

Can being a third of previous averages be anything other than terrible? Can dropping by a substantial amount be anything other than terrible? Can a club going from 12k to 5k in less than 3 years be anything other than terrible?



Bradford are a big boy club, they don't need patronising by being judged to a lower standard.



If you keeping thinking that 5k is 'good for where we are' it's not long before 5k just becomes 'good' and we know that isn't the case for Bradford. No excuses

No, for Bradford they are terrible.

Yes attendances are down on previous seasons (understandable given the quality of the product on the field), but off the field Bradford are in a much healthier place than they have been for quite some time.



Whilst I don't agree that the victors of this game will determine whether the concept is a success or not, I do believe that Bradford have the best chance to go up this time than any Championship team will have in the future, and it will be a huge kick in the teeth to the Championship clubs if they don't.



With the difference in salary cap between the two leagues, we are seeing a Wakefield club who have had a crisis season, probably aren't spending the full cap, have off-field incidents concerning key players.



What I'm trying to say is, SL won't offer as weak a team as Wakefield to the Million Pound Game in future seasons, in my opinion.

I take your point but in one off games the top Championship sides have been capable of giving some better SL teams than Wakey some rough rides in recent times.

I know... But I literally don't want to

That does seem to be the narrative doesn't it? Thanks largely to the Sky idiots, led by Eddie, it's been Leigh all season long; when it became obvious that they couldn't hack it against SL opposition, their affections switched to Bradford.



Seems that the only people who want Wakefield to win are Wakefield fans - to everyone else, that would mean the fairy tale didn't come true.