Nice advertisement - pity the sports editor still couldn't find room for a couple of lines about today's match in the editorial section though. Seems our relationship with the ES is stronger with their marketing/sales team than the editorial team.

The Northern rugby league world have caught on and that is not how I envisioned the ticket promotion when we first started, it was to try and attract new people to rugby league, but I can't see a way around it.

No free ticket admission unless you have an Oyster card! That'll sort those northern blaggers!

There is a serious point to this though. We are overkilling the free ticket promotions. The 4 for £40 deal was a step in the right direction but if we keep throwing freebies in as well all we'll do is annoy people who signed up to that.

The best way I can think of would be to do it via cut out coupons in copies of the paper, redeemable at the ground on matchdays. The old London Knights ice hockey club used to do that in the Standard around ten years ago. (Unless there's some reason why it can't be done anymore unless it's on the website too.)

You can't blame the northerners for using their initiative and taking advantage of the situation and getting themselves a bit of a discount on an expensive trip, but it's a bit pointless our club giving away hundreds of tickets to people who would have travelled anyway and willingly paid £15 on the gate.


I hate fussy eaters. They'll be expecting black pudding and tripe next year.

And the catering trucks at the stoop would still find a way of charging six notes for it