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| I think the key for you lot is for the club to capitalise on success. For instance, when the play-offs come around, what you really need, more than the gate money, is bums on seats. I think the RFL (who I believe largely control play-off ticket prices) have some responsibility here, which I'm sure they'll fail to discharge...
At Leeds we like to pretend that our crowds have been huge for as long as we can remember. This is, of course, not true, nad I can certainly remember times when crowds of 6-8k were pretty commonplace at Headingley.
You have to get the product to sell itself. Your stadium does you know favours. Half empty stadiums kill an atmosphere pretty well, but that can't be helped.
But, if you get 15-16k in there for a play-off semi on a nice evening, and win a tense game you WILL get those people to Old Trafford, and a lot of them will come back. Success breeds success. Once crowds go up, the atmosphere improves and the matches feel more exciting, more of an event and people are more likely to part with their cash to be part of it. The trouble is, for the reciprocal of those reasons, low crowds are a tough cycle to break.
I actually think they're a symptom of the wider sport's image and PR too. You can look at the turn-out at Salford with their target population too. Leeds get good crowds, but look at the size of the pond we're fishing from. It might help therefore if other teams' fans (including, but not limited to) Leeds', stopped chelping at those of you who are turning up every week and started to think about the wider interests of the sport. If the product is hard to sell with a team playing as well as Huddersfield, there's a warning bell for other clubs that they shouldn't be too short-sighted to listen to.
Rant ends.
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| Quote: brearley84 "
and is it even worth getting a season ticket with all these deals through the season?!'" It's still worth getting a season ticket if you can attend all the games.
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Soon we will be dancing the Fandango
FROM 2004,TO DO WHAT THIS CLUB'S DONE,IF THATS NOT GREATNESS THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT IS.
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| I can go back to the late 1950s and you always had a good following,but its like you lost almost a generation of fans since 1962 and had to almost restart the club.It will be interesting how many you will take to Old Trafford if you get there and I think there is every chance you will
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| we lost 2 generations of fans between the late 60's - mid 2000's. What 'little' support we have has come form nothing unlike most clubs who've just lost fans through other means- lack of success, moved away etc.
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "we lost 2 generations of fans between the late 60's - mid 2000's. What 'little' support we have has come form nothing unlike most clubs who've just lost fans through other means- lack of success, moved away etc.'"
To be fair we are doing it right in getting lots of family groups watching and as long as those youngsters do not lose the faith generational continuity could well come back.
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| Exactly - we have the kids watching us now which will hopefully lead to it being passed down, when i started watching there were no dads or grandad's passing the love of the club down to the kids...we had to find it ourselves.
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