Maybe Brentford was a lot to do with we were competitive

NB Call me God lead or contributed significantly to the marketing programme at Brentford and will provide statistical facts. He also works in that sector.

I suspect his understanding of promotional growth is far more detailed than your throw away thoughts.

Surely you mean call me dog?

Maybe he did work in that are and can provide the numbers I would be interested to see the numbers that proved all the new support actually came from Brentford which is what has been suggested.
Let me give an example.
I have friends who live in Ealing, they are quite possibly pretty typical of the demographic, all be it higher end earners.
They are a typical family 2 kids. They are originally from N Yorks and have a good knowledge of the game, although RU fans. The boy now 21 played at trailfinders. Market them as much as you want until we start being competitive against the higher level competition they will never bother coming.
Why did people stop coming, because unless it's in yr blood interest will drop off when the team is not doing well.
So market away, but until we start having some success and start getting the bigger names in the game back it's money thrown away

So we do nothing. David Hughes decides he has had enough. The club folds.
Everybody off to Skolars, who do work hard at getting people through the gates.
Marketing needs to be smart, it need not be expensive.

I agree, and that's the whole point, the opening comment was about the club marketing now! Is that not smart? Spend money on marketing when you have something to market, as in the visit of Warrington.
Spend 100k on marketing!!! Still not going to get enough bums on seats to make the club sustainable if DH goes though.
Genuine question, what is skolars average crowd this season? Has it gone up stayed the same or gone down? How many of those that came to the Toronto game came back?

The community work done by the club should be considered as part of the clubs marketing scheme. There is some excellent work being done in local schools. John Keyes and his award winning team are putting the clubs name out into the local area. It however needs to be followed up.
This is ground building work, which works for both the schools and the club. Children are after all the future. I do think that secondary schools should be part of the mix.

Is there a correlation between participation and crowds, something thats been discussed previously?

I remember the year they gave ST to all players in clubs (or similar) and it did nothing to the crowd.

Giving tickets to players that play on a Saturday afternoon when you play yr home games on a Saturday afternoon! Work it out

Two for one ticket offer for the Warrington game. The club are getting a bit carried away here.

This is an odd one for me; they've chosen a game that's almost guaranteed to be a defeat, and likely a heavy one at that, as an opportunity to run a ticketing promotion. Seeing Warrington, who by rights have no business being in this competition, run in lots of tries against us is hardly likely to encourage newbies (and returnees) to come back the following week. I don't think it's all that smart.

How have Warrington got on in their other games ? Didn't they only just beat Halifax at the w/e ?Maybe we can compete with them and impress a few newbies.

The onus is on the team to perform similar to Fax did at Wire and make a game of it and show of there skills and capabilities. Warrington is the biggest draw in this middle 8's lets promote it.

I have to agree with Plum. Warrington were poor though out the regular season and this has continued in the 8s. Although we have not won in the 8s we have competed and we may well have a chance against them. So we should not be written off.

Warrington have no business in this competition? They have every right to be in this competition and fully deserve to be here, just because they have been top of the tree does not give them rights to stay there if they don't compete, look at other teams you could have said that about in the past, e.g. Bradford.
I find it ironic lots of folk complain that the club don't market or push the game, now they are doing something folk are saying it's wrong, most odd.

Glad to see people are more optimistic about this game than I am.