Oi , How about a Sydney team ?

i thought the orthodoxy was that televising a game harms attendances? just out of curiousity how do you know that 'most' of the tickets were giveaways? im always curious as to people's sources for such bold statements.

Well i can tell you for a fact that when Widnes played Salford in front of the Sky camera's we set a new record attendance for the national leagues and all it took was for the club to sell tickets at half price to the parents of the kids that were involved in the 'Vikings Community Choir'.

So they sold more tickets to people who wouldnt normally go?

Terrible, terrible idea.

wigans idea of advertising the leeds game as the big one seems to be reaping the rewards- a 20k plus crowd is expected with currently over 15,000 tickets been sold for the game. tickets are priced at 10 quid and 5 quid for both sets of fans. and if you are a wigan season ticket holder and you buy a ticket you get yourself a free big 1 t shirt.

How very dare you talk about my home town like that. Hang your head with shame.

They are certainly pushing it by every means possible, we received 5 leaflets from wigan the other day trying to get us to buy (ok the went in the bin but assuming the are targeting everyone on their database they are bound to get extras that way!) and it seems to be advertised on the radio regularly too.

Given that the Co-oP sponsorship of the league consists of only money [ £4,000 ] paid to the home teams when they are on TV and those clubs are then obliged to give out 200 family tickets it would seem fair to suggest that a large number of fans would have been admitted with those

It is true that many others may well have paid to watch their little darlings perform and as I said , well done

The point being the question asked was about ' Marketing teams '

Who has them and who doesn't ?

About 200 families worth I would guess if they all took them up.

So anything between 200 and 800 at the gate

Out of these ones 'who wouldn't normally go' most used to go the matches but they stopped going either through the club being relegated or cos a lot of fans had had enough when we had stephen vaughn as owner and they needed to realise that the club had changed and quite a few of these now go the matches.

Yeah, what a rubbish idea, getting fans to come back

so it was or wasnt most?

Dont care either way to tell the truth , original question was do they have a ' Marketing team ' ?

Or better still do any clubs have one [ By marketing team I mean 3/4
F/T people and a budget to spend ] , and if they dont should they and should that be part of a licence application ?

yes and no. In ideal world yes but are cubs going to spend 160k+ on a marketing team? Probably not. Every SL club should have to have an indicative budget imo that shows how much they will spend on marketing, jnr development, 1st team salary, coaching salaries etc. i would be happy to see the RFL set a % expectation on this.