The highlight of Good Friday was two blokes trying to grubber kick a ball into a convertible Bentley, though such frivolities are limited to the iPitch!

Ganson's, despite the result and team performance the Bentley kicking competition was only just/hardly a highlight we can do better surely and I don't mean the quality of the car you are kicking at.

I don't doubt that happened, but surely there is some misunderstanding there. Is it because they don't want Wigan fans to buy tickets for the South Stand? I bought tickets for Widnes away from Widnes cos I wanted to sit along the side. They asked for name and e-mail but not full address. Why wouldn't you give your address anyway? You can still opt out of being on a mailing list? I can't believe they would deliberately refuse to sell you tickets though.

May be the are "that bothered" and want to build up a data base of fans that aren't season ticket holders for this new fantastic marketing strategy that's going to fill our expanded stadium.

BTW why the big secret? You're not wanted by Interpol are you?

It's not as if they're a business you don't have a brand loyalty to, i buy tickets and other stuff via the net so they have my details, i've only ever received (other than the stuff i purchased) one thing through the post.
I get around 3 maybe 4 emails a week MAXIMUM if that.

It's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, i know it's your prerogative but seriously what harm do you think it can do?

Knew this would be the reaction. You're right though, it is my prerogative who I give my personal details (and money) to.

Not judging or criticising, just want to understand your reasoning?

I must agree, though I wish you could fill it many more times than I think you could, it does sound a bit like the sort of thing Dr Coolcash, AKA Ming The Merciless comes out with when he gets a rush of blood when a mic is shoved up his beard, but good luck, go for it!

Yeah they took my details too, even though I buy a ticket every week. When they asked I thought it was a good idea tbh, although they shouldn't be turning people away who don't want to give details out, if that's what happened.

I bought a ticket today, no one asked me for nowt (except money)

Last post on this because to be honest, I'm not that d.

I'd just given my details to halfords and had to give info to another company yesterday - suppose I was just sick of doing it so I asked if i had to. In a 15 second conversation I was told I couldn't buy a ticket without providing the details in and the tone was take it or leave it.

I was 60/40 as to whether to go anyway (rushing back from work etc) so that little ultimatum made up my mind for me. No big deal, just from the clubs side no tickets or merchandise sold (or beer money on the night ), no customer information harvested and a dissatisfied potential customer.

Your examples of Leeds and Wigan are teams that win trophies and have top class players. There are lots of amateur, junior and school teams in Oldham, Leigh, Wakefield and Castleford too but they don't get big crowds.

I agree there could be new business ideas around and innovative ways of getting people to come in, but you are tinkering at the margins with those, you aren't going to get 20,000 through new community or marketing measures, unless the fans see something that they want to keep coming back to, top players, and a top team winning trophies.



It is about top class stars, or more to the point winning. Are you saying that those youngsters in Bradford that looked up to Henry Paul, Lesley Vainikolo saw Rikki Sheriffe and Marcus St Hilaire in the same way?

For how many years did we hear about how Bradford were the beacons of marketing and community engagement and how they had embraced the summer era but why did their fans desert them after 2005? Surely all of those efforts in the community, over 10 years or so should have established roots that meant the fans would still keep coming.

But something happened that turned the fans away. Bradford had cracked the family thing too, in the days of Bradford Northern it was all grim old men in flat caps, but during Bullmania there were loads of those teenage girls, what happened to them? Do they still come? Ten years on some of them will have kids by now and could have been bringing through new fans but are they still interested in rugby league?

The South Trafford areas have Warrintgon post codes. Salford, even though they claim that the connurbation of Manchester could be a potential fanbase and player pool in their licence bids, do absolutely nowt around Trafford or Manchester. I work in a Wythenshawe school and you could ask half our kids and they wouldn't know Salford CR existed. Around Altrincham and Wythenshawe there is a population of around 125000 people that have yet to be exposed to rugby league. Could we play on the Warrington post code thing around South Trafford and at into a working class area like Wythenshawe and get them exposed to rugby league?

Within Warrigton itself more investment could be put into a new and improved infrastructure of getting across the schools network and local/amateur clubs.

For a kick off, the RFL need to sort out Super League and bloody well stick with it when they do make it better age. T happens. That will help all attendances across the board.

I've bought tickets in the shop plenty of times - including a South Stand ticket for Monday - and never been asked for details.

The only times I have were when I took the vouchers from her lad's season ticket in to buy a £5 ticket for a home game and a half price Magic Weekend ticket - both times for myself. I was asked to write name and address details on the back of the vouchers and on both occasions I just made them up.