I suppose something needs to give and hopefully this will draw in a decent crowd but then what? Ok we might get a few more through the gates for this game, but then the price will rise back to £20 and we’ll be back to square one. I think Koukash is doing this to test how much interest there really is out there.

I know injuries have been horrific this season and I am proud of how the players have dug in (baring Huddersfield) but as a floating the fan the simple fact is we have now lost five games on the row and have been knocked out of the cup by lower league opposition, given the fact our next three games are Warrington / Widnes / Saints there is a real possibility that could turn into 8 games lost in a row, and a real possibility we will not make the top 8, I wouldn't like to predict the attendance if we were to get London @ Home in the middle 8’s.

It’s unfortunate because we really were starting to look good, and with a full team we would still be in the cup and would have easily beaten Castleford and Hull.

Our core support simply isn't big enough and we need them floating fans which sadly will only bother when they can be ars*d, whilst there is still a lot of work to do I actually sympathize with the club a ‘little’ on this one, if people were really d about when we played it’s not particularly difficult to find out is it?

I also don’t think Koukash & Vickers blocking fans on Twitter is helping matters, maybe they shouldn't use it as much if they don’t like what people say / suggest, I can imagine some fans are tiresome on there but as a business trying to attract new customers is blocking your existing customers really the way to go?

Well that maybe the case on their own statistics. However, in general, email is still the most effective (or rather has the highest return on investment) than any other type of online marketing, and by some distance.

I stopped following the club on Facebook, got a little tiring the constant hawking of club linked betting sites and the like, if it was purely news updates it would be perfect.

Just had an E-mail this morning from Mr Vickers

Well, shock horror! Just had a message from my brother: he went to the AJ Bell stadium today for the tickets. He actually got 4, as I asked him to pick up 1 for my dad, and 1 for my daughter who's back from Uni. He went went into reception, and they told him to go back to the ticket office, shout through the window, and someone would come out to deal with him. He did this, and someone came along to serve him. 4 tickets requested, paid cash, not one question and no contact details asked for. An absolute disgrace! The investment that Dr Koukash has put into the rugby club, both in terms of money and time, only to be let down by incompetence on a grand scale just amazes me! With such a huge promotion as £5 adult tickets / kids free, the stadium management company and ticket office staff must surely have been tasked with closing the loop on contact details. Such a basic thing, and probably the most important aspect of the whole promotion.

Our marketing department always reminds me of a popular Italian phrase to describe their politics; everything must change, so that everything can remain the same.