Why are we not able to close deals new recruits needed urgently to help with membership sales

Can you not just email for help and order online?

I wonder if there is a refunds clause on season tickets if players are not up to a certain standard ? I went for my ticket last week & was given a date to report for pre season training.

BMM and Roberts were described as imminent signings in RLExpress two weeks ago all gone quiet

There wont be any official signings until every "t" is crossed and "i" dotted in contracts. Clubs have to try and work on legal documents whereas the media works on speculation. All the speculation about not closing deals and losing players is just that....speculation. There's also a big rugby tournament coming up that open a few doors/close others on possible signings.

Also, lets think about it this way. If signings do have such an impact on ticket sales, surely it would be financially beneficial for the club not to announce "crowd-pullers" until after the discount season ticket periods end.............. Or, historically, maybe that actually dont affect the numbers that greatly.

MikeJ tells it like it is. Season ticket sales may well suffer, but the club would risk a lot making announcements before the ink is dry.

Is the RLWC having any impact?

eg Players who we might be interested in* taking part / now in squad training etc.

* not necessarily constrained to those currently 'rumoured'

Have you tried phoning the club shop?

I have they said membership sales are the worst for year's

Were they able to confirm that this was due to a lack of new signing announcements ? Did they provide a breakdown detailing the reasons people havent purchased them.

How many of this fall in sales is due to people being unable to commit to potentially changing fixtures before they are even announced ? How many of this fall is due to the fact that last year we paid sh*t and maybe another chunck of the "hangers on" have decided they want to go and watch wendy-ball instead.

On a positive note, the announcement in the last few minutes should at least boost this months season ticket sales by ....oooooooooo... a couple of thousand ? (or this time next month, we may even still be here reading the next topic of "why are season tickert sales down given the signings we have announced"icon_wink.gif

LOL One man's "hangers on" are another man's lost opportunity. If we do make a Grand Final I'll be glad of the "hangers on" otherwise we will only sell 4K tickets to the "hard core"

Another season of failure

If we make any final we will sell out our allocation of tickets, with many people complaining why didnt we get more. There are thousands of people who go to finals who have never been to a game. There are hundreds of people who decided to buy season tickets when we were winning stuff, who have bailed when the going got tough. Are they a business "lost opportunity" ? Can you build a business model around such fans ?

Yes, it is in the best interest of the club to have as many season ticket holders as possible, but it also in the clubs financial interests to have them pay as much money as possible for those tickets. Is the lack of "big announcements" affecting ticket sales ? Nobody knows. If it is the case, and ticket sales pick up after the end of "discount periods" because of announcements that get made afterwards, the club wins. Maybe that is their model ? If season tickets fall but the club still get enough people through the turnstile to allow their model to continue working its not such a commercial problem. We could probably fill the HJ every game if we did season tickets for say £60 each .......... but thats been proved not to work.

On a side note, maybe some of those not renewing are the same "hangers on" who are people criticised as "giving the club a bad reputation". Would they really be a lost opportunity ?

The truth is nobody can tell what 2018 holds from the POV of season tickets until day 1 of the new season, when fixtures are known, players are known, and we even know if we have kiss-cam. Blaming poor sales on the "lack of announcements" at this stage is speculation. Leave that to the media.

I don't think the club are too concerned about attendance figures. We did the maths a few weeks ago. The bulk of revenue is the TV money, and the loss of 25% on gate receipts is chump change when considering our owners net wealth.

I was more commenting on you "hangers on" comment. Unless you witnessed the 1980 season in a dilapidated Wilderspool, with a blanket going round for the collection and a chap with a trolley walking round the hoardings who served soup out of a back pack you are all hangers on to me.

Bring back the collection blanket loved that health and safety wouldn't have it now