Sure, Pav and Elvis were amazing players and why we pushed close to a premiership in spite of RL's game plan. It should not have resulted in us dropping 16 spots from minor premiers.
When you normally make over the top claims regarding things like players debuting and the amount of youth in the side compared to the rest of the competition, my hand itches to type a response but I hold back. However I can't let the crowd numbers go! Jezza, you clearly got those figures from
this table, grabbing the overall attendance and taking off the last number to provide a far inflated figure.
In reality last season's average was 31,415 as I said earlier with this season at 32,191. Even in 2015 when we won the minor premiership we had smaller crowds than almost a decade earlier finishing 11th.
2017 - 14th - 32,191
2016 - 16th - 31,415
2015 - 1st - 36,209
Compared with earlier:
2007 - 11th - 37,474
2008 - 14th - 35,877
2009 - 14th - 33,144
2010 - 6th - 37,084
The numbers in no way support your theory about attendances increasing under RL as above and in fact it supports the opposite. Even with the most successful period the club has ever had and a generation of kids growing up supporting the dockers coming into adulthood, people didn't want to come watch and are falling away rapidly. The way we are travelling and with RL at the helm that isn't going to get better any time soon.