If people want to find an excuse they will simples.

Out of interest what are Leigh's crowds numbers so far this season? There does seem to be low ones all aound in honesty!

Just under 2,000 on yesterday, don't know what the average for the season so far is though.

I said on the Quins thread I was more concerned about our crowds, than there's.

IMO we need a major re-think and some marketing, we can blame the weather, football (it'll be more or less all season with the World cup), other RL clubs etc but they aren't going to go away, we need to work around/with them.

SL or local soccer teams season ticket holders, perhaps discounted tickets?

TBH not much poin criticisng Quins crowds when yours are lower, same with Widnes' just being a little higher atm!

Surely the only way forward is to get people in with "lower" priced tickets.......be it a tenner / fiver or whatever (?)............quite simply from the clubs point of view freebies don't work...........sure, people will come for nowt (we all love a freebie let's be honest ! ) but actually getting them back at FULL price after that is another thing altogether !

It's another myth too that if they come on a freebie they'll buy programmes.draw tickets, shirts etc...........it does'nt happen.....the only one's who will gain (slightly) is the catering company and their proffit's are not related to income for the Centurions.

Opening the South stand @ Kids for a Quid is another option ( no Dave I would'nt want to steward it... )...........but sorry fella's giving free tickets away does'nt improve the situation either long term or short term (in my honest opinion).

Maybe the club should try a one-off "pay what you think it's worth" experiment like Mansfield FC did.

Worked for them!

You could bet we'd end up with a few Euro's if that happened !!

I'll hold my hand up to not going yesterday as I was watching the Utd v Liverpool game (Liverpool supporter btw, there are also lots of those around here).

My idea would be to move the kick off time or day of the game if a local high profile football team are playing because I just think we'll always suffer unless we're in SL. I know people will say "we shouldn't have to" and they're right to a degree but we've got about 1,500-2,000 die hards and they'll always turn up.

You could argue that perhaps we only lost 250 people off the crowd yesterday but for arguments sake say we'd moved the kick off to Sat evening and those people plus everyone else had still turned up it's an extra £3750 through the gate (at an average of £15 per ticket).

I realise not everyone will agree with this and it's probably not the ideal solution but just a thought.

it doesn't help when there is no promotion from our league, i mean 1 up 1 down was bad enough before.
nearly all crowds in championship 1 are below the 1000 mark, but they can get promoted, to a league 'without' promotion.

Like most people have suggetsed.
Open the stand opposite the main stand,
let kids in free with an adult (make in the family stand)
Get some cheap food for the kids, sweets and pop.
Encorage more disabled people free with a paying minder (after all it has a disabled viewing area may as well use it)
There will be more noise and once people start to visit and enjoy themselves they will be the future supporters.

Get Parky pig back.

Yeah people perceive there is nothing to play for and others would say "what's the point we'll never get back in SL anyway".

Unfortunately that's just something else that the club is up against. You can understand people's reluctance but I'm sure things will pick up as the season goes on.

Maybe friday, saturday and even sunday evening kickoffs are the answer or an attempt at one. People say we need to change and puttng a specticle on when there is nothing else on is probably going to attract some more fans.