I cannot think of a worse period for trying to sell season tickets.

The performances, the economy etc etc. We need a few good results by the end of the season if people are going to fork out for next year.

Maybe they think we will get amnesia and forget the second half of the season.

Good post but Gillette now in Poland.

and the poles are all in Ealing


OK, BA or SKY TV next.......

Glaxo Smithkline Beecham? About 10,000 emplyees there alone, assuming they haven't decamped to the peoples republic of low wages.

I'm with GF on this one just hand them out, another thread says mass clerout needed sadly I think that may relate yet again to season ticket holders.

Worst bit of managing expectations ever to say we were going to win the GF

I work for GSK and even giving away tickets wouldn't be as simple as calling up (who ??) and offering them. In practice what would be needed is to arrange to set up a stall in the main street of the building at lunchtime doing some promotion work with a player or two. Whether this would be possible for a sport which has no association with GSK products would be another consideration. Having said that Brentford FC have done this in the past so its possible.

When they get your letter and if they don't act on it. Am I to view that as them being a failure again?

Obviously



I came to a deal ages ago with David Hughes, he stopped telling me how to spend my money, and in return I stop telling him how to spend his.

Its old hat. 2 years ago we gave everyone of them a bloody season ticket, moved the games to Sun and they still didn't turn up.

Players do not necessarily make supporters.

Suggesting...not telling. As the Club have done so well in the past attracting fans to games, I can see your point though Homer. I mean to say, you really need to get to the Stoop early to ensure you get a seat


If David Hughes wants to spend his money on chocolate Teaspoons it's his business, all I am doing is suggesting ways to attract fans for little or no cash outlay.
As for Rooster......no, I don't expect a reply. I am genuine in my concern for the future of the club and would be delighted if someone came up with a way of increasing crowds, but 4 years into the Harlequins Tie in, we are 20% down...........that's fans and gate revenue + residuals.
As for Wire-quin...I agree, it has been done before, but maybe it just needs tweaking rather than binning. 1,350 players with another 1,700 kids playing structured league.....why try and fail to convert people when there are already another group, with more people than our existing fan base? As I said, ask them what it was about the offer that didn't appeal? Was it maybe that they play on Saturday and wanted to spend time with their loved ones on a Sunday? I know when I played on Saturdays, Sunday was a family day.

I don't care about a reply you may or may not get. I want to know if we should view them as failing again if they don't do any of your suggestions?

Nope. My suggestions are there, in the public domain, but if the club don't use any of them they are not failing because they ignore me.....they are just failing.

How the club market the game is up to the club......it's just they haven't really excelled at it, have they?

As for the bit in Bold? You can and already have formed your own opinion about my attitude to the clubs marketing, so why ask?

So you won't go on about how useless they are then when they don't listen to you. As they are failing anyway.

My opinion is actually that on occasion, you offer the odd good suggestion. However you have then publicly berate the club because they simply haven't implemented what [iyou[/i think should happen. You often made the club look even worse as a result. People coming on here will read the negativity from yourself and it heightens their impression on things that we all know aren't great.

Now here is just a thought. Do you think the club would be more inviting to you and your knowledge had you not come on here and write what you do? I mean, you don't sell yourself well on here sometimes, and again, in my opinion, to a degree, with your knowledge, you could have been valuable. But who'd take you on after publicly slågging them off. In this case a potential "employer", so to speak that you were willing to help.

We all know their shortcomings, we all know what needs improving. Not all of us slåg them off as a means of getting there.