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| This is obviously just a taster by the club I presume to see how everyone reacts before a final decision is made. The point of this though is that the club aren't interested if we will attend it. They're wondering if anyone in Manchester will attend. With this in mind it doesnt really matter too much how few of you say you are in favour what matters is how many people in East Manchester have suddenly started partying and celebrating knowing that Red Devils will suddenly be in their area, I suspect not many.
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| Quote: MarioRugby "This is obviously just a taster by the club I presume to see how everyone reacts before a final decision is made. The point of this though is that the club aren't interested if we will attend it. They're wondering if anyone in Manchester will attend. With this in mind it doesnt really matter too much how few of you say you are in favour what matters is how many people in East Manchester have suddenly started partying and celebrating knowing that Red Devils will suddenly be in their area, I suspect not many.'"
Come on then marketing guru what would you do to increase support?
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| Quote: Mike87 "Come on then marketing guru what would you do to increase support?'"
Start winning games.
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| FFS, Mario.
It may pay to remember that your own opinion is not fact, and touting it around as such is making you look like a bell-end. Let's reel it in eh?
Take it for what it is, a marketing opportunity rather than some underhanded plot by a bond villain to move his own personal tracy island a stones throw away from its current position.
You're not coming on here to have a debate, you're coming on here to tell everyone what you think regardless of how badly it smells or what anyone says to you. You're not providing positive alternatives, just negative outcomes. Sort yourself out.
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| Quote: Talent Spotter "Start winning games.'"
This is the standard line taken by all of us, myself included. It's more of a hope than a fact though and it worries me somewhat.
'After thirty-odd years of failure it'll take a winning team to bring the fans back, not marketing Manchester!'
I had this one mentioned to me today and while there's no doubt an element of truth in that, it's exactly the reason why the Club is/should market outside of Salford. Not the reason why we shouldn't. There's no down side. If absolutely nothing comes of it nobody has lost anything for the trying.
Better to try, and fail. Than never trying at all.
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| Quote: TheButcher "This is the standard line taken by all of us, myself included. It's more of a hope than a fact though and it worries me somewhat.
'After thirty-odd years of failure it'll take a winning team to bring the fans back, not marketing Manchester!'
I had this one mentioned to me today and while there's no doubt an element of truth in that, it's exactly the reason why the Club is/should market outside of Salford. Not the reason why we shouldn't. There's no down side. If absolutely nothing comes of it nobody has lost anything for the trying.
Better to try, and fail. Than never trying at all.'"
Couldn't have put it better myself.
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| I personally think it's something worth trying for a number of reasons: -
1. Cup games over the lat few years are badly attended at Salford as well as other teams.
2. It's a great way of putting our sport and particularly Salford in the spotlight for fans who probably wouldn't come across to Barton on spec.
3. It shows the SMC that there are other options.
4. We need to attract new and lapsed fans down to watch.
Imagine we go across to say the Ethiad Training Stadium which I think holds about 8,000. Even if it was only 50-60% full with about 500 -1000 new fans and it was a decent game. I think the atmosphere would be pretty good and maybe some of the new fans would come across to watch the odd game in Summer.
We have to try new things to move forward.
Remember when Amazon was first muted most people gave it no chance. Now look at it. Even the Internet was decried and without it we wouldn't be able to air our views.
If it was on the road Myself and our group of fans would certainly be there.
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| The more you think about the more you see it is the Doc flexing his muscles and saying to the SMC, pull your finger out as there are other options.
The SMC is already living pretty much hand to mouth and losing a large slice of it's income from Salford would be a very sobering thought for you. I can see this being a precursor to the Doc looking to buy if not all of the stadium a significant share of it.
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| Quote: middleman "I see the story as a shot across the bows, in the ongoing arm wrestle with the SMC , rather than a 5th column conspiracy to become a Manc RL club .
We'll be legally contracted to play 14 home games at the Sale Cuckoo Stadium ,but I guess not a potential CC game
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This is pretty much what I was thinking when I first saw that. We know that CC games are a shared gate, we know that CC games have (shamefully) been poorly attended, we know that the Doc isn't best pleased with what the stadium charges. A poorly attended cup game at AJB could make a loss. A threat to play elsewhere may help get a better deal.
Personally, I'm massively against a permanent move out of Salford, or a branding towards Manchester (and I'm a Mancunian), but I can see some possible benefit in having A game in a different part of the area. Having a few thousand people on cheapo tickets with very little preconceptions about what they are going to see, watching us play an open style of rugby and mullering a lower division team, might actually get more people to try it again than our historic method of attracting a crowd for a game against well known opposition, then getting mullered ourselves. Obviously, the best thing we could do would be to get decent crowds in for home gaimes against bigger name opposition [iand[/i beat them. Wakefield seem to have managed it.
Quote: middleman " I am genuinely shocked you think the RFL did a better job at advertising the weekend than Salford could do as a club. What advertising was done in and around East Manchester? How many schools etc were visited?
You simply cannot compare, the Magic Weekend was only marketed in and around RL circles...'"
I'm sorry, but that is simply wrong. I was doing a lot of work in Central/East Mcr in May/June this year and there were at least a dozen billboards along main roads, plus the electronic displays seen by thousands of s-l-o-w moving cars on the Mancunian way. In addition, there were posters at many metrolink stations. It would be interesting to know how many Mcr based neutrals went.
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| Well done to MK the club have got to try a generate some interest. What do you want the guy to do, he as done everything he said he would do unfortunately the Salford public are not interested in the only professional sports club in Salford.
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| It all comes down to cost doesnt it? Lets say we draw Gateshead at home. Would we get 2,000 @ home? Just think of the costs of hire of ground, countless Stewards and Jobsworths so Marwan is looking to foot a huge loss. Split gate as well as Iain has noted.
Does the Cup attract any more anyway? Have to concur with many on here and agree to a move especially in the early rounds.
As an aside - Sale`s gates are very poor arent they? Under 5,000 again last week and that for a Premiership Fixture. I wouldnt be surprised that the Landlords are beginning to worry that there may be NO tenants shortly. Sale might as well play at Heywood Road or even back to Edgeley Park. We need MK to buy out the Council asap.
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| I was looking at MK's Twitter this morning with a brew and came across this -
'Despite that our ST sales are 15% down on last year and are the lowest in SL., I will keep the faith and try everything to increase fan base'
Now, regardless of a few factors such as slow pre-Xmas and the new SL format adding to the slow take-up, these numbers are pretty worrying. In time I think they'll pick-up and settle somewhere where they did last season. The worrying bit for me is the message it's sending to MK and Vickers about the Salford public. We can make all the excuses under the sun about the whys but the fact is that if the Salford public don't get off their backsides we're in danger of losing it. Either totally by abandonment or the Club whisked away and changed. Figures like these show that taking a game across Manchester is even more viable in an effort to get more interest generated.
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| Quote: middleman "
I see the story as a shot across the bows, in the ongoing arm wrestle with the SMC , rather than a 5th column conspiracy to become a Manc RL club .
We'll be legally contracted to play 14 home games at the Sale Cuckoo Stadium ,but I guess not a potential CC game
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Spot on, the new stadium are shafting us.
And something needs to be done.
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| Does anyone actually know when the lease is up? You'd love to be a fly on the wall of the negotiations when it is up for renewal.
Ever since the Doc took over the club I have failed to see why the council/Peel don't want to sell up, neither can be making any type of money from the project and you'd think from the councils point of view the Doc would then invest heavily in the surrounding area to increase the profitability.
Maybe this is part of the Docs end game in looking at taking a game or two on the road.
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| Quote: Iain "....Having a few thousand people on cheapo tickets with very little preconceptions about what they are going to see, watching us play an open style of rugby and mullering a lower division team, might actually get more people to try it....'"
The idea of trying a game on the road is OK. The difficulty is deciding which game. I don't agree that mullering a lower division team would bring the punters in. These games tend to be very low intensity, with few visiting fans, home fans standing around with their hands in their pockets (or sitting back in their seats) and with very little atmosphere. They end up being like glorified training sessions, and I'm not sure that's a particularly attractive proposition. However, if you take a game against bigger opposition on the road, you're giving up home advantage when a good cup run could be one way of bringing more fans in.
I think the ideal game would be a WCC type game, but you've got to get into the WCC first, of course.
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