The ST deal for juniors is a good deal and its a shame more can't/won't take up the offer.
The pay on the day for juniors isn't a good deal, the fans we need to attract to come long term will probablypay on the day so getting those prices right are vital.

The lost fans won't come back until we go in SL (if ever).
Its the new fans we need and unfortunatly as you say many don't know much about us and the offers we have on.
The community department is winning awards so we are doing things right and going in the right direction however theres no doubting Leigh are in competiton with a whole host of other leisure activities, watching Live RL isn't a big priority for many so the work is going to be very hard to attract new fans and we really have to keep pushing this.
We do need to look at what we do though and think of the many options available to 'sell' the club to the missing fans.
Took the nipper to Celtic v Aberdeen yesterday, payed £20.00 (a Semi Final Cup competiton).
Leigh v Quins today for the pair of us cost £21:00 with the result insignificant.

The advanatge Aberdeen had was it was a family ticket, Leigh did't have that option today (for whatever reason).
That needs adressing urgently and is a factor in peoples thinking when money is tight.

Leigh also lose out on not having a regular towncentre presence /off ground advertising hoarding.
A few weeks ago I followed a bus in Garstang with a small advert on the back that told me who Morecambe FC played next and how much it cost, on the way out of Lancaster later in the day I saw a wooden board telling me exactly the same info , 2 reminders of there game in a hour.

A lot of clubs will struggle outside of SL and its high profile , I do think though that some small gains could be made such as those used by Aberdeen and Moecambe, we do that correctly and we'll slowly see the average age of Leigh fans come down - or better our average attendances rocket upwards.

Good call on the family ticket!
crusaders do a similar thing and it worked wonders for them last year. It was only available on advanced purchase though and that cheesed a few off when i was down at the racecourse.

The problem is that all this advertising is not free and as far as I am aware our club has no money for such a campagne. What I would say though is that WMBC may still own advertising space in our towns thats probably not used anymore and a couple of calls wouldn't cost a lot but the printing would. All of this costs and I don't think we have the dosh. RFL come on down.

You dont even need that.
Get one volunteer to stand on asda carpark on a saturday morning or put a flyer on every car windshield. You dont even have to go delivering, with an ASDA car park about 5000 people come to you in a day

On BBC website that they have now applied to go in to administration

Yes not good news is it. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 383611.stm

Yes not good news is it. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 383611.stm

I call it "being restricted to playing in the second tier with no hope of ever having the massive excitement that goes with watching a really significant fixture - for two generations"

That's what I call it.

It's a minor miracle we still get more than 2k for most games IMHO.

Licensing came in 3 years ago. Barr one season, where were you for years and years previous??
This 'no chance of ever doing it because the big mean RFL say so' is so overplayed its rubbish.
Widnes will have done it, so stop moaning and get on with it. They made themselves the most obvious choice, you so to can do that.

We all still await an RFL statement to the effect that anyone else will get a chance, come 2015. That is certainly not a foregone conclusion.

Beg to differ.

Honestly speaking, as a fairweather fan (like the droves that no longer turn up at all at Leigh) I'd love to live in hope that I'll get to watch a few games that actually feel important. You know - ones that make you feel sick just at the thought of them.

Unfortunately, we can all see that this is now so, so unlikely, that many fans have simply given up.

As a lottery member, I get a few free tickets and if I'm away, I struggle to GIVE THEM AWAY because it's not worth PEOPLE'S TIME. Nothing to do with the recession. They simply have BETTER THINGS TO DO.

That's what you're up against.

That economic unit called 'UTILITY' which the RFL has removed/substantially reduced from the vast majority of our games for a lot of people.

Just so.

And that is exactly what is happening. Progress, I think it's called, and all those stay-aways know better than to stand its way.

Just as people will finally realise the ultimate fate of a game that can't even thrive in its heartlands is to die and go and play the national code instead.

Dico do your lips bleed every 28 days? Because you talk like a right .

By the way, when was the last time Warrington finished top of the League?

Don't feed the trolls, dragged off topic AGAIN.