I am a Hunslet fan and the simple fact is Hunslet will never again have a decent fan base the people behind the scenes do a terrific job going to local schools and things like that but theres only so much they can do people in the Hunslet area would rather watch the Warriors and the Rhinos

who are the warriors?

Hunslet Warriors there in National conference league

All the advertising in the world isn't going to make much difference.

FWIW, if the RFL are interested in growing crowds outside of Superleague, they should get every SL club to offer a 75 ...or even 100 quid upgrade to a season ticket/pass. This upgrade would entitle the holder to entry into any NRC, Ch or Ch1 games. The revenue generated would be split evenly between all the clubs in these competitions......every holder of these tickets could be sent a fixture list weekly, once refs have been appointed etc and encouraged to get to at least 1 game outside of SL. As an addtional incentive, anyone who does use their upgraded ticket goes into a draw with various prizes like weekends in blackpool for the NRC final, a box at the GF at Old Trafford, international tickets etc.......
The management and promotion of such a scheme would cost next to nothing and each SL club (especially in the heartlands) would be expected to promote the scheme to their fans.
The clubs from the lower divisions would benefit from this not only through the revenue stream from these upgraded tickets, but also the residual sales of beer, shirts, food etc....and the possibility of getting supporters of SL clubs to adopt them as a second club.

Why is that? too much apathy? or lack of marketing in south leeds?



isn't a lot of that funded by the rhinos anyway? so whilst they might say they are promoting the Hunslet cause, they are paying lip service to it and promoting the Rhinos cause. I know this is the case with the work they are doing on behalf of the Bramley Trust fund.



is that not because the warriors and the rhinos are in your (their) faces more, with more strategic placements of adverts of the games and like?

Some of them really havent a clue have they Martin

People would rather watch a team in the Conference than a team in Championship 1.







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I think it's more a case of not wanting to pay £12 to watch a team in Championship 1.

I think a bit of both on first point mind you Hunslet have just appointed a full time employee to work in community and there has being a more concerted effort in trying to get people to come to games,the problem is the club don,t have the money to advertise like for a example against Blackpool a couple of week ago a adult could get into the game with a child for 5 pound but the club relied on word of mouth or volunteers to pass the forms round rather then advertising it in Yorkshire Evening post which would be due to lack of money i would guess.
On second point i really not sure if thats the case or not the Rhinos did pay for the scholarship scheme but that finished last season Hunslet get 100,000 a year from Rfl so i think it comes out of that. Iwould agree with that third point if you drive through Hunslet you would have no idea there was team based there who are semi-pro

Ah, hence the marketing comments.

That's fair enough, the admission fees are getting a bit out of control.

Personaly I dont believe they do , IMO they want the heartland clubs to continue to struggle to make it easier for any new expansion clubs to compete

The whole ethos of the RFL seems to be for clubs to find sugar daddy investment to survive

And good as your idea is Gutterfax we dont need SL fans to ' adopt ' us , we need the people of our towns to want to watch us

How can this be done ? , well it isn't easy and when you have fans talking about ' marketing departments ' then you realise how little they understand the problems these clubs have

Marketing is the key , but the clubs dont have the resources to do it , it needs to be organised and funded by the RFL

But as that wont happen it needs the clubs to start to work together and to find the finance