The council have bugger all to do with advertising hoardings. You want to advertise on them you pay the owner of them.

Whilst I'll quite happily blame the council for a lot of things, the lack of advertising is not one of them.

Doesnt cost much to put posters up in shops around your town but credit where its due to get nearly 10k is a huge effort in this day and age, when we moved we had nowhere near that when we left CP.

With regard to ticket sales, a word of caution, there has not been anything official from the club re sales other than to state they had sold 8000. This was at the back end of November.

Talk of 9k and 10k sales is at this stage nothing more than conjecture, based on rumour and comments along the lines of a friend of a friend who works at Saints has told me they have sold 9k.

What i would say is that if Saints are not well past 9k now, then they will have to sell a lot of tickets between the new year and the 14th January (which is the last date stipulated on the Saints website for season tickets being on general sale) for them to have a chance of hitting 10k.

I would hope that Saints do announce the volume of sales prior to the seasons start as this is something they should use to promote not only the club but the game as a whole.

What i would say myself from looking at the reserved seating sales since the early bird deadline at the end of November is that the sales have dropped off markedly in December compared to earlier months.
If there are large sales volumes still occurring, then they must be in either the unreserved sections, family section or the West terrace.

Whilst it's the time of goodwill and all that I thought I'd give you something to smile about. My eldest Wigan supporting daughter bought her husband and my granddaughter Saints season tickets. USING MY BLOODY CREDIT CARD.

And that's exactly what I've been saying, the marketing has been rubbish fir years and aint improved with our new start in a new stadium.

Your have thought years of debt might have taught us that Money don't just come on a plate but it's got to be worked at.

Well, after saying that I haven't seen any advertising for Saints around town, I wonder if rlthisrl is going to end up as a poster in strategic places?

Given the shape of it, is it not likely to be on the signs as you enter the town?

yup, thats what i thought. Good to see some effort is being made

It isn't though really. The signs are advertising St Helens town centre to Saints fans and visiting supporters (why not go to the town centre whilst you're at the game?)

What we actually need is signs urging people already in the town centre (and elsewhere within the borough) to go to Saints.

Signs with Wello on that can only be seen if you travel into the borough from outside it do nothing to encourage those that live in the town to go to Saints.

Having said that - advertising Saints is Saints job, not the councils.

your last line sums it up to me, i've slated the council enough so at least they're doing something. Saints marketing does seem to be improving slowly (glacially slow), we're miles behind wire and wigan in this respect, Wigan's "big one" event is a great idea i wish we would replicate

We are miles behind leeds, Wigan and Warrington our marketing.

What's the "big one"?

they pick a game every year and absolutely batter the advertising, even on TV. They sell blocks of tickets cheap to local firms to give to their staff to completely fill the stadium. They got Hienz to take 1000's a couple of years ago

Wondering which game they could market as the big one, it might not be cost effective to do Wigan, Wire and possibly Widnes, those games will be full houses anyway without marketing. Perhaps Leeds, Bradford or Hull, just get the feeling we might see a bit more away support this season due to the "novelty value" of going to a top class new stadium.

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Quote: Rogues Gallery "FIOS But we don't have a fairy-lite bridge. According to your own website, you've only (still a good effort) sold 9025 https://www.eticketing.co.uk/wiganwarri ... emref=2168 FIOS !!!!