SUMMER rugby league has arrived and the ambitious Keighley Cougars are going for promotion in a big way, having won all four of their opening League Division One fixtures.

Thanks to Rupert Murdoch's £87 million injection into the game, and the subsequent increase in media attention, crowd averages are already up on last season - and growing!

It is widely believed that the First Division will be the most exciting and competitive of them all and the all-star team at Cougar Park, led by Great Britain coach Phil Larder, is the best supported side in the Division, and is aiming to increase the average crowd from 5,500 to over 7,500 in the coming weeks as they consolidate their position at the top of the table.

This is the most important season in the club's history and with justifiable optimism, they hope to realise their dream of promotion to the Super League in the next few months, and so the time is ripe to get on down and join in all the fun.

In Keighley, they talk about 'Cougarmania' - an effect and an atmosphere envied by other clubs, and the Lancashire Evening Telegraph has 200 free family tickets to give away for the Cougars next home game against Whitehaven Warriors on Sunday, May 5.

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