Memberships: ticketed, non ticketed, babies, pets you name it there are a dozen ways to fleece a fan! www.broncos.com.au/site/_content ... source.pdf

Memberships: ticketed, non ticketed, babies, pets you name it there are a dozen ways to fleece a fan! www.broncos.com.au/site/_content ... source.pdf

The credit card idea could be cut down in scope to be more along the lines of a membership card, but tie into the same benefits programme.

I don't think the energy deal idea would work, simply because there is rarely one single best such deal and that best deal will differ for every user.

Away games either screened in the ground, or shown in the "club bar/cafe/pub" could work, especially for those clubs further away from each other.

Away games screened in the home ground ???
With the exception of the Catalan away fixture, we should be trying to encourage fans to travel to the away fixtures as often as possible.
Wakefield started to run an away travel club last season which appeared to be very successful and certainly increased revenue for the club and
helped increase away support.

some people arent going to go though.

I understand the sign a star theory. But lets say Warrington signed Darren Lockyer in his hayday. Would it bring many more viewers?

The problem being how many people outside of RL know who Darren Lockyer is??

I could walk 4 houses down my road and ask people who is darren Lockyer and I would get nothing in return.

The only option would be to buy a union star, but it would have to be a successful has been. I could not even name 5 current England RU stars, my wife could not name one. I'm assuming someone like Toby flood is still playing and tuilangi someone? There I can think of 2. But the great masses do not really follow Union to a great extent, they just like the England team, whoever are playing.

That comes back to the watershed moment of the RU world cup in South Africa for me at that point following England RU became similar to watching England football, it did not matter whether you followed the sport but it became a spectical that you watched anyway.

So maybe not as a money making idea, but a profile raising idea we need to tie our sport to something in the national conciousness. So how about a May day 9's tournament at Wembley. It's a bit off the wall, but short games 10 - 15 mins long, no need to change halves.

Get every team playing their stars (especially backs). Lots of round robin games so speccies can't just turn up and watch their own team. The MM is a good concept but because it's full games speccies can come and go when their team plays.

When Union do a 7's tournement. Even after teams are knocked out, there are lower throphies, sheilds so teams keep playing.

I'd try to go for free to air TV, even Channel 5, 2 - 3 hours on TV. Lots of commercials, cheap tickets, but link it to the May day. Try to embed it into the conciousness that on May day we watch the 9's tournement even if we do not watch RL regularly.

It maybe pie in the sky but hey any idea is worth thinking about, even if it's not worth doing.

I don’t necessarily think that is the case. I remember the excitement and visibility around Leeds when they signed Ali Lauitiiti. I think there needs to be a balance between keeping wages manageable, stopping a team buying success, and being able to attract the best players.

True, but the proportion would undoubtedly increase if there was a gathering at the "local" ground, which ultimately will affect the atmosphere at games.
Again, Catalan can be used as an example of very low away support (for good reason of course) and it does detract from the matchday experience.

Depends on what levels that is really doesn’t it. If 500 would stop going, but 1500 would watch at the ground, then we could make more money even with less going to the game.

There is no tongue in cheek icon!
I think memberships are the way forward for SL. Most SL clubs have a higher season ticket % than NRL clubs, I reckon SL fans would embrace a membership model.

Tell me what the RFL has done for the Championships that is and is seen as positive by the fans of those clubs?

I dont deny that it is me that has changed , much of my negativity is with the management of the club I supported

I'd disagree, obviously there was anger ( not from me ) at Catalans inclusion in SL, but 9-10 years ago there was much more optimism in the lower tiers, much of that changed when the Celtic Crusaders came along and were blatantly fast tracked into SL , despite being completely unprepared, since then there is without doubt a slow decline in enthusiasm for the sport in general at all levels from Championship fans

I meant more the general dissatisfaction and apathy with the play off system and the International game displayed by many SL fans, and the teams finishing near the bottom

RL's strength was, and could be again, its strong and passionate local roots in Cumbria, Lancs and Yorks, a population greater than Wales, Ireland or Scotland. Parts of that population migrates for work but generally maintains its passions and roots. We simply maximise the opportunities from this low hanging fruit, anything else being a bonus.

A good example was the Utilities opportunity, something I firmly believe can generate significant income with a conversion creating up to £100 for Gas and Electric. Don't stop there, think about what your community uses - broadband/Phone packages, TV packages, supermarkets, mobile phones, cars, petrol/diesel, holidays, hotels, banks, credit cards etc

Lets say we have 150,000 families who watch local RL live, lets say they each sell the concept to 4 close family members/friends. 600,000 Utility conversions is £60 million for a start - now thats a far bigger goal than a Sky deal or a SL sponsorship at present.

The key to this success is: 1.unity - we don't have it 2.vision and passion from the top - we don't have it. Yet we have both available to us if we open our eyes.

In conclusion I wish these small world keyboard warriors would stop restricting our game via exclusion and that we understand the power and potential we have from our traditional core strenths before randomly pishing in the wind on the next hair brained scheme we think up.