each week I get a text and an email telling me about the match, which is all well and good but I am already going, we need to get a list of mobile numbers of non-fans and bombard them with texts as well and added to it,"only £10 entrance with this text message."

as for marketing use the space at Barton a design painted onto the floor where the ground will be advertising the next match

good idea but I don't see how it would cost the club a penny?? surely the people who gained these tickets woulsnt have been coming in the first place so the club wouldnt lose out on ticket sales and as you rightly say the revenue from beer, food and merchandis. And most importantly should the team perform the odd new recruit in the stands. These are all pretty much common business practices and it astounds me that Wilky as a very sharp operator doesnt see this for himself and insist the club try it.

Personally I think whoever is in charge of promotion and marteking at the club should fall on their sword and they are utterly inept. We as a club are less in the publics sphere of awareness than at any point in the last 20 years for me.

We should get bands on at half time, like the wombats? In the summer let kids play on the pitch for half an hour after matches, start posters again and things like that? I'd say it'd be worth a try.

We should programme it to send an e-mail out to every e-mail of some1 from Salford if that is possible?

Marketing is done by being creative, I agree doing leflets maybe does not work but remember every successful business start with marketing its product successfully, just letting people know you are around gives positive steps. to continually do nothing will result in the product drying up,

TBH how can you market a product that is as bad as we are providing?

for games when the crowd is going to be bad, quins, crusaders and catalans, why don't the club give a free ticket to every
u-16 and parent who plays rugby in salford?

They always give free tickets out, at the moment they cannot even give the free tickets away.

If the club cut down any further they'll have no staff left!

i haven't heard of any this season, not doubting you, but why don't they give them to the local rugby clubs under 16's. if they give a 1000 for the 'lesser games' out and everyone turned up (i know that wouldn't happen), at least the stadium looks better.

giving away free tickets won't work without a constant presence in the city will, all be it a little slower. free tickets mean people who would pay don't and people who wouldn't normally come won't be converted into die hards over the course of one game.

i've been running nightclubs in the city centre for getting on 20 years and if all i did was give away a few feebies a couple of times a year i'd have been out of business years ago. i also have to make sure the musics good.

so i guess salford are failing on both fronts.

Some good points being made her about the quality of the offering (and I'd go beyond the actual game here and include the wider match experience). I have a couple of work colleagues who have been asking about making an evening of a few post work drinks, a game, and back into town, but to be honest I don't really want to: a) make them fork out £18 to endure what we're serving up (and I could also include not wanting them to endure the beer the Willows is serving up), and b) embarrass myself by making them think that entertainment as poor as what is currently on offer is what got me hooked on this sport.