As it stands, there are quite a few individuals putting their ideas to the club. This is great.

However, think how much more effective this would be if a group was formed to co_ordinate all these views and then present them to the club.

I was going to be sarcastic, but I'll play it straight.

There is such a group _ the Supporters Association.

We meet regularly with the top brass. However, we are a pitifully small organisation _ especially compared with other clubs. We try to enrol members and get laughed at. We put on events _ for free _ and few attend. We ask for volunteers (to help the club) and very few bother.

I challenge all of you with these great ideas to attend our AGM on the 14th October and join us _ perhaps you will join the committee. Don't like the chairman? Then stand against him.

We have lots of ideas about how to get people more involved but lack the manpower to carry them through.

Volunteer with us and you will be helping the club.

Some great ideas Conor- and spot on C and G! Some of those ideas have even been tried via the HGSA. What the club need are easy to implement, cheap ideas and fans to help then happen.

Agree there are some great ideas!!
We need to avoid the 'cheap ticket' deals too much though as our regular ST purchases will start to think 'why bother paying £17 a game' when they can just wait to get a ticket for a £5 for the odd game.
I didn't mean to offend C&G, I wasn't aware of this and I would love to come down and be a part of the group. I think there's a few who would like to volunteer / put their ideas forwards but maybe just don't know how?

Everyone says the marketing department don't have enough man power to make it work….well we ARE the man power!! With us behind them how can it fail! :p

Totally agree ....get signed up to the HGSA and let's make things happen !!

How do we do it please?

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l pushed HGSA with lvor many times on here in the last pre season l think lvor said we had 105 members, How many today lvor?, l miss a lot of meetings but when l can make it there,s usually about 20 - 30 there same old faces, and l don,t know if they are all members, its a quid for non members, that will put a lot of people off.
Maybe we should just face up to reality, the people of Huddersfield are not that interested, the back office staff arn,t that bothered, we have to wait for the next generation, and hope we still have a good club, sad but get over it.

l,ve said it before, there are some of the most boring, miserable, tight fisted people l have ever met in Huddersfield, this is going to be a very difficuilt job

I'd never been into rugby, never really heard much about it. But I started to go to the odd match (first game 2009) with my mates and I became hooked. So I don't want to just give up on it as I think it is possible to get more fans. Target markets are people with young families, what a way to spend some quality time with your son than at a game? Groups of young males who go to the pub on a Sunday - have a pint at the game instead. Just need to get this message across. There's a lot of ideas flying around, but we are missing those new, fresh ideas that could really work with a bit of a push.

Giants have over 14k followers on twitter, could be vastly improved upon.. with some initiative and ideas, its an avenue that needs to be used!! not many better ways of spreading the word

conorgiants fan spot on with the renaiming of the offiacial facebook page, its seems broken into two sections at the moment!

8831 likes for the above on facebook - leeds rhinos have 121,000 !!!!! now come on this is a joke, we should be looking at what they do and try replicate it..they are clearly showing the way to do things. i know leeds are a bigger club but still we are poor at this kind of thing, move with the times giants.

the above are the best way of engaging with the younger generations... some where we lack at the giants im afraid.

its not good enough, ken davy needs to set on a new media person!

the supporters group is very much still in its infancy and it has done well

think the column in the examiner was a great move and well done for that but sometimes i lose interest in reading it half way down, just comes across abit boring and all about the past/heritage stuff ..which we are all proud of but maybe talk about the prev game/upcoming game etc sure we have ideas on here and plenty of issues/topics?

not wanting to upset anyone just how i feel when reading it sometimes.

Brearley - This is why the HGSA want new members to try and improve things and bring their own ideas to the table, i'm sure the Chairman would be interested in letting others put stuff in the Examiner if they wanted.

I've heard that the marketing team was pared down. I can't say I noticed the change, which suggests that perhaps the problem wasn't the number of marketing staff, but the quality and the budget they had to play with.

How many people were in Peter Deakin's marketing team when he triggered Bullmania back in the mid 90s? I bet it wasn't anywhere near as many as eight.