when was the last time you were at Odsal in February?



If it had been a friday game during school holidays then we could have used a holiday day and brought the kids down anyway. As it is the options are a) - don't come down
b) come down using some holiday but leave kids behind - not a good option
c) lie to the school
Not a good set of choices for a RL loving family.

As there doesn't seem to be something else on in the area, the growing consensus is that we have been randomly picked to try out an idea from the marketing side of your club. Hopefully your club can find something that works well and keeps the fans coming - home support & away.



The Bulls actually canvassed supporters opinion a few years back after we had tried out Friday night games - the consensus was to return to Sunday afternoons (TV permitting). Very good of them (although unusual) at the time I thought.

I see, so Bradford just want to ignore fans opinions?

:1k0p0kgx

except for when you stitched us up with some nice 6.00pm Sunday evening Ko's



Club have canvessed here for which days to play as well but nobody will be happy with every suggestion so the club needs to focus on whatever is the least evil of them and :1k0p0kgxstay consistent so we need to try things to increase the home gates.

I can remember easily when the visit of the Bulls was seen as the biggest gate of the season for us, but sadly for whatever reason that's no longer the case.

It would be great if, like our supporters who make thoses long trips north on a friday night every fortnight, every supporter who wants to travel away supporting their team could be accomadated, but sadly that will never be the case.

eh?
anyway...


We as a family are going to South Wales (for some reason the Bulls have been selected to still be played in South Wales instead of Wrexham) -conspiracy I tell you! ; France and Edinburgh as they are all Saturday games.

Your management team have wanted to try a Friday evening game - best choice would be a summer Friday. Maybe Bulls have the lowest away following of the summer games, maybe the thinking is the Bulls have the most resilient away following? But yes, I agree, these things have to be tried, data collected, beans counted etc. Just a shame it is us. My uncle is a season ticket holder for Quins RU and we usually have a good time when we get him along to the rugby league!

Friday night may bugger up my attendance as well with travel round the M25 a nightmare.

Why Friday?

Anyone bothered to check the Footy fixtures for that weekend?

Simple,Super league aren't really bothered that your 20 odd away fans for a friday night can't make it!!

Looks as if Auntie have found the suitably qualified incisive witty replacement for Mr J Ross.

I may go on public transport but the family wont entertain the M25 on a friday night.
That said my last friday night trip to the Stoop was a nightmare to get back from .

That said if im off work Ill make the effort.

I've called for more midweek home games for us as a good way to target london business on work night outs.
Its far easier for us fans to convince colleagues to go out for a beer and a game on a weekday than a weekend and one or two fixtures a season is ideal

Correct.

But the likes of Salford and Wigan play clubs like Leeds and the Hull clubs on Fridays too, which probably costs them hundreds of away fans. Obviously those clubs feel they can offset this by attracting more supporters of their own.

I would imagine our CEO has been picking the brains of his counterparts up north and wants to test the water to see whether we might attract extra local support (specifically the corporate market) on a Friday. I'm sceptical, as our support is dispersed over a much wider catchment area than any other English club and it will be a nuisance for a lot of regulars to get to Twickenham after work, then back home afterwards, but given the lack of impact of previous initiatives it's got to be worth a try.