Quote: Starbug "You're getting the idea now arent you , you have the east stand as the family stand , no alcohol sales , you TELL EMC to put on a kids meal deal of Hotdog ,cone of chips and carton of pop for £ 2 , you invite enough to make up 1,200 for 4 games , thats 5,000 people through the turnstiles , for game 5 you offer all of them [ because you have all their details ] a family ticket for £ 15 Then you start again with another 4 games , and so on and so on ,'" Cracking idea that surely has to be worth a go this season, what is to be lost by doing it ? ? On a smaller scale Aberdeen FC do this amongst other things to entice groups in www.afc.co.uk/page/DonsDayOut/0,,10284,00.html At Bury FC we had a 'club of the day' in which a Junior sports club was invited down, the children (of all the clubs age groups) packed the family stand and then the teams did a parade of the ground at half time with Robbie the Bobby (the mascot) to applause from the support, not sure about how this worked from a financial return (suspect it was largely free) but it raised awareness of the club and the money taken on Matchday would have rockerted (admittedly Leigh wouldn't gain as much this way - although it was a brilliant way of getting 5 - 16 year olds in the ground), not all clubs where local as we had some over from Ireland.

Quote: Starbug "You're getting the idea now arent you , you have the east stand as the family stand , no alcohol sales , you TELL EMC to put on a kids meal deal of Hotdog ,cone of chips and carton of pop for £ 2 , you invite enough to make up 1,200 for 4 games , thats 5,000 people through the turnstiles , for game 5 you offer all of them [ because you have all their details ] a family ticket for £ 15 Then you start again with another 4 games , and so on and so on ,'" Cracking idea that surely has to be worth a go this season, what is to be lost by doing it ? ? On a smaller scale Aberdeen FC do this amongst other things to entice groups in www.afc.co.uk/page/DonsDayOut/0,,10284,00.html At Bury FC we had a 'club of the day' in which a Junior sports club was invited down, the children (of all the clubs age groups) packed the family stand and then the teams did a parade of the ground at half time with Robbie the Bobby (the mascot) to applause from the support, not sure about how this worked from a financial return (suspect it was largely free) but it raised awareness of the club and the money taken on Matchday would have rockerted (admittedly Leigh wouldn't gain as much this way - although it was a brilliant way of getting 5 - 16 year olds in the ground), not all clubs where local as we had some over from Ireland.

I'd suggest the club try it out for one remaining match this season , possibly the York home game if the kids are back at school by then , but you need to go the whole hog if it is ever going to work , I'd even put the free transport on for the away fans , and make sure they are all grouped together either in the south stand or the south side of the west stand , I'd also invite the whole of ' Glows ' street down as well , put them all together in one block of the north side of the west stand so he can wave to them at half time

We have to make every match at the LSV an ' event ' if we are ever to get anywhere near a break even in it , these ideas are long term plans with the intention of ' growing ' life long Leigh fans , not just people who will turn up when we play well and disappear at the 1 st bad result

The ultimate aim is to fill the stadium , every time that doesn't happen means there is still work to do

You did

But I've started the letter now.

Dear Friends and Neighbours,

What for?

And what ever it is it wasn't me.