hi first off i am a widnes fan

as you are aware we play you guys first up on the 3rd of feb. the day before england play scotland at twickers in union would it not be an idea for your pr dept to advertise in the local hotels and bars around the twickers area and get your youth team and members of the pr team out on the street on the sat withy t shirts flyers banners and posters trying to poach some of the fans to come to the game on sunday . maybe even offer some kind of incentive ie any england or scotland fan who retains there ticket stub for the union game can get into the stoop for only 10 pound on producing said stub. for getting in and around the fans on the sat for two hours before the game and for an hour or two in the bars etc after it may grab some extra fans for the game. even if just 1% thats another 800 fans watching that would not have been there . i myself will be there again this year maybe with a new clown mask liked the long bar but still prefare griffin park . i reckon this year the broncos will do what wakefield did last year and be the suprise package now that tony rea is back on board . my prediction for your finish is between 10th and 8th. see you all on the third big hoss xx

Well it gives you a good idea of the potential crowds you could attract. I think you would be happy to get, for example, 50% of that gate initially and look to grow from there. I don't see that you could realistically expect to attract more than an established football club.

we grew crowds at Griffin Park.....it's the only venue we actually did that and by some strange coincidence, it's also the place where the volunteers did leaflet drops, the club put a couple of adverts on local bus shelters and we reached out to the "nomadic bar staff" for particular games.

in 2012 the Club put all their marketing eggs in a basket that in the end contained, a rebrand 3 months before the season started, a season ticket offer to "bring a mate", a video that was shown on a loop in certain bars across the capital, a dozen liveried cabs, a quarter page advert in Metro (or was it the Standard?) and an offer (may have been 2) on a "dailydeal" type website........this was the entire campaign for a season that lasted 8 months....for the only professional team south of Manchester......

None of the above, including the rebrand, resulted in any attendance figure that was above the 16 season average for the visit of the associated visiting club.....in short, they failed.

Does anyone have any faith in 2013 being better off the pitch than the previous 2 seasons?

I can see the big push in 2013 being SELCO giving free tickets to games with every purchase of a bag of nails

Would that be for nails in the coffin?

Broncos til they die, we're Broncos til they die, or change their name or change their ground, we're Broncos til they die.