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| Quote: Starbug "mosphere at the
Away support is a ' either or ' situation , you either ignore them completely ( the easy lazy option ) , OR you embrace them , you make it as easy and as attractive as possible for them to attend no matter what day you play , having seen your posts on the Fax site today Matt, you are aware that they put the Fev fans in their own part of the Shay, yes there were other reasonsfor it ( which nobody needs to expand upon ) but it did apparently result in an improved at the match
Ultimatly you have to decide what you are trying to achieve, and what is the best way to achieve it, bearing in mind there is no magic wand that will solve our problems, just vision, hard work and taking the odd risk or two
Sometimes you can end up being scared of doing anything in case you make your current situation slightly worse, almost ' frozen' with fear, you have to have the courage to overcome your fear, you take your leap of faith'"
Don't disagree with that, but away support in this league is always a pretty constant figure and doesn't seem to increase much even for play-off games so I'd rather we concentrated on whatever measures we can to attract home fans first of all.
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| Quote: Leyther_Matt "Not worth bothering about away fans until they start bringing significant numbers - even an extra hundred home fans on a Friday night would wipe out the entire away support of most clubs. Having said that, we take similar numbers away from home on a Thursday night as we do on a Sunday so in reality it won't make much difference to the away support anyroad when bearing that in mind.'"
TBH I don't think we've done too bad for away support thus far when you consider what we saw / have seen in past seasons, a couple of coaches from Barrow and 1 from Hunslet (plus fans in Cars / on public transport) is not too bad for lower league RL in the current set up.
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| Quote: JENKY "TBH I don't think we've done too bad for away support thus far when you consider what we saw / have seen in past seasons, a couple of coaches from Barrow and 1 from Hunslet (plus fans in Cars / on public transport) is not too bad for lower league RL in the current set up.'"
No more or less than both clubs have always brought to be honest Jenky - 200ish from Barrow, maybe 100-150 (if we're being generous) from Hunslet. Bar Halifax, Fev and I suppose Swinton, it's not going to get any higher.
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| Interesting thing though with away fans, today we were outsung until the little fracas on the pitch , the more that come, generally the better the atmosphere, and if ' Bob ' had come today, would he have come back again?
Because ultimatley, its ' him ' we need to attract, not us
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| according to our Andy the Hunslet support seemed down on last weeks?
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| Quote: THECherry&Whites "Too much competition on Sundays to be a success. When RL switched from Saturdays to Sundays there was no competition. Football was never played on Sundays, shops closed all day on Sundays, pubs closed at 3 0'clock and didn't open until 7 o'clock, no pubs served food, you had the choice of watching "The Love Boat" or going to watch the Rugby. Now we have all day opening of pubs, the majority serve food, all the big football games are played on Sunday at 1 o'clock and 4 o'clock, the Trafford centre, shops open until 5 o'clock, sport on 24hr tv from around the world, summer rugby clashing with family bbqs etc,etc,etc.'"
I disagree with your views mate, Friday nights are having a big impact on Salfords attendances, families just won't go on a Friday night after a tiring day at work and with games kicking off at 8:00 and most people not finishing work until 5:00/6:00 it's near enough impossible for people with kids to make the game, plus with an 9:35 finish its going to be late getting in. Id never make any Salford games if it wasn't for my boss letting me work an extra hour during the week so I can leave early on Friday, just shows against castleford we sold 8000 tickets I know 2000+ didn't show up due to the freak blizzard before the game but we did sell 8000 tickets, the next game at home on a Friday night only 5000+ tickets were sold. Friday nights are family supporters killers! Stick to Sunday's.
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| Quote: FredParky "according to our Andy the Hunslet support seemed down on last weeks?'"
Cheaper prices last week and more chance of winning?
Quote: FredParky "I disagree with your views mate, Friday nights are having a big impact on Salfords attendances, families just won't go on a Friday night after a tiring day at work and with games kicking off at 8
Might not work at Salford, but other clubs absolutely swear by it. And as Sunday's are on it's backside, we might as well give it a go.
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| Quote: RED LEAGUE "I disagree with your views mate, Friday nights are having a big impact on Salfords attendances, families just won't go on a Friday night after a tiring day at work and with games kicking off at 8
We'll find out soon enough, once we get our televised ' clashes ' with Utd and City out of the way
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| Well I brought 2 Bobs today but I do have an issue with the the reserved seating .I do have a reserved seat due to friends I go with but when I get someone to come along it means either they sit on their own or I don't sit with friends and its not only me who has said this, and I have emailed TB and tweeted the Leigh Centurions about it ,wish they would scrap reserved seating altogether .
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| Quote: Starbug "On the ' when to play ' issue, can I throw Saturday tea time into the mix, that would be my preffered option'"
i know i cant make fridays,but saturday tea time i think wouldve been ideal.we played tolouse at home last year and got 2400 attendace with no away support,probably worth a go for 1 game see what we get
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| SUndays in winter, Sat teatime in summer, I can make Friday, Saturday or Sundays.
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| Quote: itsatry! "Well I brought 2 Bobs today but I do have an issue with the the reserved seating .I do have a reserved seat due to friends I go with but when I get someone to come along it means either they sit on their own or I don't sit with friends and its not only me who has said this, and I have emailed TB and tweeted the Leigh Centurions about it ,wish they would scrap reserved seating altogether .'"
Just sit elsewhere, plenty of seats that aren't reserved.
As it is, I'm more than happy with the reserved seats as it means we don't have to get in too early to get where we normally sit. I'm also fortunate in that there aren't any season tickets at the side of our two seats which means the two non-ST holders who came with me could sit at the side of us.
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| There was loads of reserved seats empty again today by the way ,as for sitting somewhere else thats what I do when I bring a friend but would also like to sit with friends I have been going with for years and its not fair for me to ask them to move .
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| Quote: itsatry! "There was loads of reserved seats empty again today by the way ,as for sitting somewhere else thats what I do when I bring a friend but would also like to sit with friends I have been going with for years and its not fair for me to ask them to move .'"
Well if you want to use my reserved seats for the Batley game then you're more than welcome to as I won't be using my West Stand seats and will be stood in the North Stand instead
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| Quote: JENKY "6.15pm Saturday night.
Up against the weakest TV SL fixture and no live football match (if indeed they still show it live on Saturdays - not too up on what SKY show), allows away support to get here , allows young familys to come , allows people to do things and still get back for the game, allows those who don't live within 2 miles to get there easily, allows people to watch the football then watch the RL, allows a majority of people to get home from work / be off work then go to the game, allows the players to play the game in decent temperatures in summer, can be used as a 'day out' by putting other events on at /near the ground on the day (as per Australian RL fixtures).
Of course there will be people who prefer other dates and I'm sure everyone has a favourite kick off day / time but the above does seem to tick a lot of boxes in terms of what the club needs.'"
Spot on ! I have been saying for ages that we should play Saturday evenings. Trevor Barton commented not long ago about how good the Tolousse game was in the hospitality areas together with one of our better crowds. Of course there will be pros & cons for whichever day but Saturday ticks many more boxes than any of the others.
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