How so?

More people for one, I cant remember the last time I went to Cockhedge but visit Golden square regularly. Its common sense!

Did the shop in cockhege look like our current shop? If so there is one of your answers

Irish wire is right. More people in the golden square. And an ultra modern looking shop will undoubtedly pull people in. Add that to staging events there and you're laughing.

What is an 'ultra modern' looking shop? Where do the people who specifically go to the shop park? How much more profit would the shop have to make, purely to cover the lease of said, 'ultra modern' shop?

If the Golden Square is the answer why do units lie empty which were once occupied by High Street retailers, bearing in mind shops of this kind are utilised for occasional purposes?

To be fair the shops that have shut are being outdone by their rivals, there would be no rival for a Wire shop.

Glass and lights. Lots of bright lights. And robots. From the future, not todays robots.

Ultra mordern meaning open plan, eye catching enterance, plasma TV's facing outward showing highlights, or maybe even the wire2wolves video. Promotional work. Enthusiastic staff with matching uniforms. Events taking place.

You know marketing that would attract people. Everything that the current Wolfware doesn't do. Instead of people going to the stadium all the time I'm guessing they would leave it to the weekend and tie it in with their Saturday stroll round town. But if they really want to go during the week they can still pop to the stadium.

It wouldn't just be a shop it would be a tool.

I've always agreed that we should have a shop in the Golden Square. On the proviso that it was discounted as I can imagine the rent not being the cheapest.

Having said that, I think somewhere small would be better. Just big enough to sell shirts, maybe a bit of training gear, DVD's and tickets.

For me it would be more about having a presence in the main shopping area and being able to market the games and run promotions from there.

(Most of) the staff are enthusiastic enough. It's the competency and attitude that could be better.

It seems to have gotten better this year, but I still can't stand going in there.

I have memories of there being a Wire market stall in the 80's. Or am I imagining that ?

It was the 90's & also there was one at Birchwood.

I think the rents in Golden Square would be quite pricey, but that's not to say it's a bad idea.

Having said that, every time I walk through there the busiest places are The Pound Bakery & Greggs, so there's your market - less training tops, more pastry. Stock up on saggy jogging bottoms as well and they'd be queueing down to Bridge Foot to get in.

The website could do with updating. Especially for mobile devices. In this day and age that is key. In fact I'd bet that is where the majority of traffic would come from with a feature rich app to go with it.

Let's be clear though, designing and maintaining such things is very expensive.

They had an app a while back, 2011 I think. The problem with it was that to access any of the features you had to pay a monthly fee, but there was nothing on there that you couldn't watch for free on youtube or the main website. They also had a very basic mobile site which was an absolute nightmare, as they somehow made it impossible to access the main website.

With the growth of iPads etc it may be worth creating an app/website where you can watch games and interviews etc for a monthly fee. Leigh Centurions launched their own version of this in the summer and a lot of people have signed up from all over the world, you can watch back recent games as well as classic games and interviews etc for £3.50 a month.