Saturday not yet sold out

Quote: SaintsFan "Neither side has sold out their allocation of tickets. As at Wednesday evening, Saints had 200 left (having received an extra allocation), which is pretty good for a club that seems intent on not marketing itself at all whatsoever in any shape or form. I'm working temporarily in Warrington at the moment and there are bits about the Wolves all over the place, even on the doors to my floor at the council offices. Wigan put posters up around town and have pubs advertising their games. Walk around St Helens and there isn't a damn thing about the club anywhere. In fact, there's more Liverpool, Everton and Man Utd stuff on show than Saints. But that is the fault of the Saints club and personally I think it is their total lack of marketing this season which has seen our attendances at Widnes so low. If the club can't be bothered drumming up enthusiasm for their own players, how can the town be expected to feel enthusiasm for them? All those Challenge Cup finals and Grand Finals and not a poster ever found its way on to a billboard in St Helens.

Sure, we have some bone idle fans who prefer to dress up in their outdated Saints shirts and watch the game in the pub. They infuriate me. But mostly the responsibility for poor crowds is down to the club who, apart from updating their website and posting on Twitter/Facebook do sod all to drum up any enthusiasm for the team around the town. Oh, sorry, they put five players on five buses, thanks to their sponsors.

Personally I think if Warrington had to play out of Widnes for a season there would be very little difference in attendances because Warrington know how to market their product and put effort into doing so. Saints don't. So they get the turnout they deserve.

But we still did quite well when compared to Wigan who, in spite of boasting the biggest crowds in Superleague, still didn't manage to sell out their allocation.'"

your club is advertised on a lot of buses in st Helens seen at least 3 tonight