I have noticed that since we started selling the Game On magazine we have been running short of programmes and they have been selling out at least 10 mins before kick off.

Any chance of getting more on sale for the coming fixtures?

Since the RFL started to publish the new Game On the Club is required to buy at least 250 of them from Red Hall every match. Members of the Supporters Trust volunteered to do the selling of programmes for the club and it is now the Supporters Trust who buy and sell programmes. As you can imagine as the Trust have to buy them it is hard to pinpoint with accuracy the optimum needed for each match, as one thing we cannot afford to do is overbuy.We were also unsure how it would be received as at some clubs they are having to buy them and are not selling them, we would love to be ordering and selling hundreds more. It would be more money for the club but as they are not sale or return we are left with not daring to order more than we can comfortably sell..Fortunatly at Halifax we are just about selling out every week, even though we have upped our order and intend to do so again. We have been overwhelmed at the support we have received from the Fax fans buying the programme in increasing numbers and hope you will continue to do so.It is another area where we can all help our club grow stronger and some time in the not too distant future we hope we will be ordering and selling thousands .But an immediate answer to your question is yes we will be ordering more but if you do still miss them sometimes Malcom may have one or two in the shop after a game if they have had more than needed in hospitality. Thanks again for your support.

Could put some leftover programs on Ebay...

I still can't believe that people would want to buy what will end up as a propaganda mag?

I shouldn't comment as I haven't even seen one yet, but does anybody find them interesting?

Collector, Piston Broke, what are your views of the mag?

I`ve looked at them and it is not a bad read there is quite a bit of info in it and the club put their own insert in to localise it a bit more. I do understand where you are coming from but I for one am glad people are buying it at the match as the Club would have to still pay for them.
Leigh for instance are still printing their own and people cannot afford to buy two,which in turn means they do not sell the quota from Red Hall.
That has to eat into the profit of their own I think our club has it right given we have to buy them anyway by selling them with the clubs own inner it suits everyone then and everyones happy .

While the club have no choice in the matter, it would be expensive to try and do their own as well, but I would hope that when the club are financially stable again, that this will change. It probably won't last very long anyway as it's just a bit of a novelty and a play thing for the RFL just now.

They'll not need a propaganda mag once they've got their chosen French, Irish, and Scottish teams in place.

I had a read today and quite liked it.

I feel for the smaller clubs too it can`t be easy .

I couldn't decipher the Toulouse page...

There was a shocking error in yesterdays edition whereby they showed a pic of Anthony Bowman and said that he'd scored three tries against Batley when it was Andy who had done it.....

Erm...its a good effort...but does anyone read it from cover to cover?
Most of the coaches comments from other clubs seem very similar.

I can understand it being a boost to clubs with smaller attendances who must have been losing money on a programme...and it is an RL instruction that all clubs have to issue one.

Will they have the same fascination in years to come that "traditional" ones do?

I think this seasons, or certainly the first one issued, will be a collectors piece, but no, I can't see them having any last "collectability".

Honest opinion, its okay I would give it 60 out of 100.
I would prefer each clubs own prograrmes it was nice to see their views on life and was more individual but it must be more cost effective to have a centrally produced one, although to expect Championship 1 clubs to sell 250 is a bit optimistic, they must still be losing money which defeats the object really.
Hope we go back to clubs own programmes one day, as a programme collector we have seen this before in football and it got binned.

memories.........was the football one the football league review and came inside every clubs own programme

No it was another one I think in the eighties, maybe early nineties which only some clubs used not all like RL.

I would guess that this programme intiative by the RFL has been a godsend to the club. I have said before that for the amount of work which goes into producing a programme, the benefits arent rewarding enough. I did the Town one for 3-4 years and no matter how much you improve the content, the sales dont really reflect the improvement and it continued to just about break-even over the course of the season.

Or you could always get down there 5 minutes earlier if you keep missing out on them . . .

or maybe fax could sell them online too, to guarantee getting one.

Oh my god! Why didn't I think of that fantastic idea! Well done my friend, absolutely astounding use of intelligence.

Then someone else misses out, thus not solving the problem.

As has been mentioned, we at Leigh are still doing our own programme.(about 52/56 pages) I've been trying to find out how much we are making (or losing) on it, but Leigh, being Leigh, appears to be covered by the Official Secrets Act! (hey, why should I know, I'm only the editor!)

I think most clubs were/are losing on their own programme, but we see it as an important vehicle for getting news out to the fans - at least those few who attend. Another factor in Clubs' minds, is probably the time element. I would estimate that it's taking about 3-4 man-days' effort per week, (not per game) to produce - in addition to the efforts of outside contributors. (i.e. the press - and 'Brew' when you come to ours!)

Naturally, two of us are doing this for nowt - I even have to buy the flaming thing! But the alternative of paying someone, would make it totally untenable.

We are proud of our efforts - of course, I would say that - but we feel that it's the only quality item Leigh is producuing at the moment! Let us know what you think, when you visit the LSV - if they can ever find a date!

Personally, I'm not keen on 'Game On', as it regurgitates much of the news from the weekly 'trade press'. However, I also feel that any publicity for the Championship, is better than none at all, so I welcome it. Your compromise of including a few pages of 'Fax info. fascinates me, and I'm looking forward to buying one, when we come to your place.

Cheers,

They also listed Chinny and Gaz Moore in the squad list.

I'm glad you made the comments about the ref at the reserve match at KXP V Siddal semi final the other night in your column, it's a good job the tie wasn't lost due to his incompetence.

Scotty reckoned that the bloke hadn't refereed for years.

But if they don't know rules like that one MM.....

I quite like the Toulouse bit, it gives me an opportunity to try and guess what they are saying, mostly wrongly so far (my guessing that is). Having said that shouldn't the English translation be entirely in capitals to get that Brits abroad feeling

It said something like the Welsh version a few years ago. Don't worry folks, you're on the fast-track to SL....