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| Quote: the_next_morley "I'm a wire fan living up on taylor hill. Work etc means I don't have a season ticket. when wire are up here and I'm off work I'll get down to the match. First time in about 4 years, the stars aligned and I could go the match the other week. I looked up on the website, saw 24 quid, closed the website got a beer from the fridge and parked myself in front of the tv. If a fairly die hard fan is put off by the price, then what chance have you got attracting joe public & family?
I can't say this for every club necessarily, but go for a walk around warrington any day of the week and you're guaranteed to see replica shirts, hats, coats etc. on top of promotional stuff in shop windows, and billboards advertising upcoming games.
In Huddersfield there's next to nothing. On home matchdays, you see more away shirts in boozers around town that home shirts. You have a town that simply isn't interested in the club, and until you get some decent marketing folk to tap into the thriving uninitiated student, eastern-european and asian communities then you won't get the attendances desired.'"
Agree with pretty much everything here! There doesn't seem to be a buzz about the Giants, but this is the most successful team in years! So something is wrong here!
Me, my dad and cousin have been going to watch Giants for nearly 10 years now, I usually get tickets from the university as I am a student, but with it being bank holiday they were closed. So we turned up on the day and couldn't believe an Adult was £24 and a student £18... The reality is people don't want to pay these prices. And for people saying even if it was £10 people wouldn't turn, that is irrelevant to what people are trying to say.
Personally I think £20 for an adult £15 for a student is pretty acceptable. I would be happy to pay that anyway. But to pay £24 for probably the most boring game I have ever seen cannot be justified.
So me, my cousin and dad have had to agree if I don't get tickets from the university then we won't be attending games.
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| Just to be clear, I do realise that the university sell tickets, but they certainly don't advertise that fact. The giants brand has pretty much no exposure on the campus, except for the 'store on 4' which is a tiny newsagent style shop tucked out of the way of everything
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| Price is the least of the Giants' worries as far as I'm concerned. I've got a season ticket but I will not be going to watch again due to the poor level of entertainment that I witnessed agaisnt Hull KR and Warrington. A number of the players have been quoted as saying the team needs to peak for the playoffs and I suspect that this is impacting on the level of fitness and the intensity that the team is showing. If Huddersfield Giants want me to watch then they have to play to their optimum week in, week out. If there not willing to do that then I have more important things to be doing with my time.
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| Quote: the_next_morley "Just to be clear, I do realise that the university sell tickets, but they certainly don't advertise that fact. The giants brand has pretty much no exposure on the campus, except for the 'store on 4' which is a tiny newsagent style shop tucked out of the way of everything'"
There are a few flyers lying about that nobody reads too! Also the store on 4 has closed down now. Giants tickets are purchased from the new student union near the library
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| what mostly has or is being said on here now is confirming my origenal point weather its to do with money or entertainment value theres quite a few unhappy people for one reason or another, I will state my origenal post was not to spred negativaty as negatiaty spreds negativaty, but when people are un happy about something but then go home and sulk about it and say nothing ,well nothing changes.it was more my intent to find out how other people felt and hope theres a slim chance theres someone who could posibly voice these concerns to the club or maby even the club myt read whats been said on here. i no over all it seems like moaning but when you care for your team as i do, but can seen blatant flaws mainly in the marketing of the club i believe im within my rites to complain. god knows how many thousands av spent following them to earn that rite.
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| James Brammer and his team always seem to listen to what's been said, might be worth emailing any concerns, although judging by conversations i've had with him he knows what the problem is and finding a solution to it costs money the club don't have at the moment.
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| I'm not really interested in football. I'm pretty sure that town carry out a great deal of marketing - can't say I've ever noticed it - don't know when they next play, who they play or how much it is - and that's from someone who visits the stadium a lot! like many people I ignore a lot of advertising - because it's advertising! That's the problem we have to somehow crack!
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| Quote: Nephilim "Price is the least of the Giants' worries as far as I'm concerned. I've got a season ticket but I will not be going to watch again due to the poor level of entertainment that I witnessed agaisnt Hull KR and Warrington. A number of the players have been quoted as saying the team needs to peak for the playoffs and I suspect that this is impacting on the level of fitness and the intensity that the team is showing. If Huddersfield Giants want me to watch then they have to play to their optimum week in, week out. If there not willing to do that then I have more important things to be doing with my time.'"
the structure of the league will be different next season , it needed to be to stop the exactly the above happening
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| Being someone like I am I've yet to see anyone turn up on the day and walk away due to the price, I have been spoken to by fans querying whether there's a cheaper alternative entrance price and when told no they grumble but still come in!
At the saints game they had a promotion and the promotion price remained for the north lower yet folk paid the extra on the day price rather than the tenner! Despite that being a massively discounted game folk still didn't show in mass numbers! Ok it was the bbc but still two big teams at a tenner was quite a bargain!
Think many clubs are cashing in on pre orders rather than the average walk up fan as we all find prices rise when we go away and yet a family attending an away game would find it relatively cheaper for the adults than our walk up price but then find out the kids are £14!!! So a family of four can pay out around £70 so £48 is quite a difference!! Do we chop the adult price and introduce kids paying? So maybe the on the day prices are in fact paying for the new generation to be allowed in for free! Do we really want it both ways? Would these families still show up if the kids weren't free?
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| The 'Click and Collect' has been mentioned on here many times since it was introduced.
To the people who are having a go at the club, a serious question, are you willing to help in any way? Perhaps you'd like to join HGSA and help promte the club and raise funds through that organisation? Would you be willing to help them sell some raffle tickets where the first prize is a day with the Sky team at a match of your choice?
You could even put your points directly to MD Richard Thewlis on Tuesday 6th May at Turnbridge WMC when he is HGSA's guest speaker.
Disclaimer: these comments are in no way intended to upset people. The comments expressed are entirely my own and are not necessarily those of HGSA.
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| Don't be daft Ivor- folk just love a moan. Especially in hudds. They also want something for nothing.
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| I've offered my services in any way to the marketing team many times, seems though the offers are there to help out they are reluctant to use free labour to promote.
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| Quote: Ivor C&G Scarf "The 'Click and Collect' has been mentioned on here many times since it was introduced.
To the people who are having a go at the club, a serious question, are you willing to help in any way? Perhaps you'd like to join HGSA and help promte the club and raise funds through that organisation? Would you be willing to help them sell some raffle tickets where the first prize is a day with the Sky team at a match of your choice?
You could even put your points directly to MD Richard Thewlis on Tuesday 6th May at Turnbridge WMC when he is HGSA's guest speaker.
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i will answer yes to this i would like to help out where i can, if you could send me any info you may have. thank you.
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "I've offered my services in any way to the marketing team many times, seems though the offers are there to help out they are reluctant to use free labour to promote.'"
after starting this thred i felt i should have a think about what i would actually do to inprove the situation myself.
my first idea was as you say to use the die hard fans to better efect not to neseseraly use them as free labour but encourage them and help them do what they do anyway but on a bigger scale maby give them some offical tital with benafits rather than pay them a wage. when i was starting out in premoting nyt clubs ect i used enthusiastic artists friends ect to spred the word, hand out flyers ,send emails ect and in return would offer free entry to gigs free drinks or to play there music on my nyts to get them selves seen and herd, this was very efective in more ways than one, people like to feal part of something. i know its on a smaler scale but i think its a good idea,
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| The club asked for such volunteers a short while ago- one person turned up (think that could have been daz!)
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