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| I also think it is time the majority of die hards do their bit too. If you can’t encourage a couple of mates to attend the next game with you at £5 each then we’ve got no chance. Even if you pay the £5/10 yourself, we as supporters have a responsibility too. Whilst we should be able to, we can’t rely on the club to market the game and deal appropriately.
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| Quote John Gilbert Reds="John Gilbert Reds"I also think it is time the majority of die hards do their bit too. If you can’t encourage a couple of mates to attend the next game with you at £5 each then we’ve got no chance. Even if you pay the £5/10 yourself, we as supporters have a responsibility too. Whilst we should be able to, we can’t rely on the club to market the game and deal appropriately.'"
Great idea, at that price I am going to buy 2 extra tickets and give them to my neighbours as a free gift. Imagine if everyone did that?
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| Only just read the article in full now. 40% of season ticket holders did not turn up. And that doesn’t count any season ticket holders that passed it on to other people because they couldn’t go. Wow.
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| Quote RedDanjo="RedDanjo"Great idea, at that price I am going to buy 2 extra tickets and give them to my neighbours as a free gift. Imagine if everyone did that?'"
Exactly, it will be well worth £10 of any supporters money to see the East and South Stand packed out. Even if 2 tickets at £10 is too much, just buy one ticket at £5 and give it to a mate.
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| Quote Chico="Chico"Only just read the article in full now. 40% of season ticket holders did not turn up. And that doesn’t count any season ticket holders that passed it on to other people because they couldn’t go. Wow.'"
That is a shocking stat.....so the factors for their no show has to be location of stadium, horrible weather and recent results?
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| Quote RedDanjo="RedDanjo"That is a shocking stat.....so the factors for their no show has to be location of stadium, horrible weather and recent results?'"
Perhaps, although I'd trade ‘recent results’ for ‘couldn’t get the time off work’/‘can’t do Friday nights’.
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| Vickers could buy a load of tickets,with his pay off from th council,seriously it is a good job their was not more fans to witness that performance,because they would not return
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| 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?
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| Quote Chico="Chico"Perhaps, although I'd trade ‘recent results’ for ‘couldn’t get the time off work’/‘can’t do Friday nights’.'"
I would agree with that.
I'm a season ticket holder and miss at least 2/3 games a season for potentially a whole variety of reason. The factor is never recent results. 40% is a very high non turn out figure but perhaps the club should also appreciate that lots of fans make a financial commitment with the knowledge that they will not be able to attend all games.
Some of the tweets from the club - Marwan/Vickers - after matches are similar to drunken texts you send when you are staggering home.
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| Quote Mr Scholes.="Mr Scholes."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. '"
Well let’s say they don’t do any extra marketing for this game. If they don’t get over say 4,000, you could assume that ticket price is not a major issue or barrier.
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| Quote Chico="Chico"Well let’s say they don’t do any extra marketing for this game. If they don’t get over say 4,000, you could assume that ticket price is not a major issue or barrier.'"
The club puts a lot of emphasis on social media ie facebook and twitter. Yes its easy and cheap to communicate but do we have the right balance? Vickers states we have 18000 followers on facebook but how many are genuine Salford fans in our area? I follow NZ Warriors on facebook & twitter but I certainly wont be attending a game anytime soon.
At present other efforts seem to be ad hoc. We need to reach out to the community with a clear message with a more joined up approach.
I see the red devils logos on the East Lancs but is there a clear message? Is it the brand we need to publicise or fixtures and kick off times. We live in a city of proclaimed ex Salford fans! The old boards that were prominent approx 10 yrs ago were far more effective in my opinion. There used to be one on the main A57 not far from where the ground is now situated. Could we not have an electronic information board on the A57 that publicises the next game with the dual purpose of attracting fans and also advising motorists to avoid the area in the hours before kick off or face delays. Trafford MBC/MUFC do this in the Stretford area.
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| To be fair to the club, while it is easier to get messages out to people these days, the audience is a lot more fractured. Salford not having a proper city centre is a big hinderance. As is a declining pub culture. As is the huge decline in local newspaper readerships. If a person doesn’t use the web, isn’t on social media or doesn’t benefit from a word of mouth network, they are going to be much harder to approach today than even a decade ago.
I wonder whether putting everything into one match per year, as Wigan did with their The Big One series, is worth a go. Throw £50k of marketing spend at it and see what impact it has.
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