The guy on the radio reckoned there were around 1000 people there in reality.

Yawn-Stick to filling Auckland Warriors ground up. We've heard it all before.

Maybe our speedway fan in Oxford and all the other Sunday is the only day to play due to.... will provide some explanation for the poor gate today. They cant even blame the sun in your eyes rubbish as there was none to be seen.

Rubbish. I was there and I thought it was around the 2,500 mark. I was sat right in the middle and it was pretty busy. These crowds aren't good enough and I really thought the 3,000+ was attainable today. However, it was disappointing. The bl**dy rail engineering works always seem to conspire against Quins too.

I was chatting to a few folk on the way back. Is there any hope of increasing "local" support with the Union side so pro-active in the immediate area?

I enjoy going to the Stoop. The fans seem to enjoy themselves. The atmosphere is getting better. But just not enough bums on seats.

It always is busy in the middle. Its when you can't get seats together in the outer 2 blocks that you know the stand is over half full.

Are the club counting all season tickets or not? 2 of us didn't bother. And a few others on these forums. Similar effect probably in effect across our fanbase.

I always sit at the end of the stand, and actually stood down by the front for the last fifteen minutes. From my seat it looked like the worst crowd in my three seasons attending, from standing at the front, sadly I'd say the 1,000 figure was close to the actual numbers there

Surely the time is now approaching where a leap of faith is required , if you are to avoid the unthinkable

Right on time...




Yes...you've heard it all before and chances are will continue to hear it because while we may have a new marketing team, but we are getting the same old results from them.....SFA. Are we going to give them "time"? I seem to recall the club giving someone time previously and we sold 1 box in a season......how much time do they need?

I would love to see the next 2 games get 3,000+ crowds, but that would still not bring us any nearer to the 5,000+ needed.........
What would you do Wire-quin? Seriously, if I bore you with my musings on marketing fine, but telling me to stop is just childish. If you want to debate what may or may not work getting people in fine, but if all you can do is say how tedious I am I suggest you just avoid my posts

BTW, I am in Wellington, so the Warriors really aren't my problem as they are the Aukland Warriors in everything but name.

Fax you have a good point. My local football team recently offered free enty and tripled its crowd and made more money than a normal Saturday. Did not have to pay tax, gained donations, sold more burgers and beer. The last two games (all pay) have resulted in the same crowd numbers as before the free entry! However the move resulted in free local press and radio coment which can only be a good thing. Winning today helps but it will be a long struggle.

It is fortunate the boys dug deep and put on such a stirring performance because that was a Championship attendance. Surely it is now time to give tickets away, do some really dynamic and see if there is an audience out there waiting to be asked. It must be difficult for the players to raise their game in a stadium that is a sisxth full. If we had lost it would have seemed like a funeral wake.

Offering free tickets is not a short term answer , it needs to be a long term strategy , the problem with that is the worry [ one that has been repeated to me by SL chairmen when discussed that existing paying spectators will take up these freebies and revenues will suffer

The answer to this has to be communication , you have to convince your existing fan base that if they do abuse this initiative then quite simply they will not have a club to support , but if you do not try these type of things they will also not have a club to support

Very difficult , but surely do able with a bit of initiative

quins wont be dropped from super league remember mr lewis came out and said that quins are to important to super league for no reason. but come on crowds of 2,330 is shocking and not good enough for super league, no super league licence for the quins

ok have mentioned this a couple of times!! if you are not going to give tickets away then target interested areas and discount tickets
Its the in thing at the moment with what is going on with afghan and the whole help for heroes thing, look at the cas game this weekend and there away shirt
Is it London Irish that play at the mad stad!? they offer all navy personel half price tickets on any home game!!
Yes I am military and no am not trying to get cheap tickets for myself but have a look at the joint service interest in Rugby league, if 2 ships companies can turn out 2 squads to play each other on a wed then there is the interest there
Look at the army squads all based in the South Sw area
Rl is pretty strong in the Navy!!! Portsmouth! a pretty big navy base is not that far from London

not trying to be biased to the mil so why not target all the blue's and two's in london and south south west area!!!
we have a potential massive catchment area!!!