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...

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!!!

Hands up on here anyone who couldn't get 10 mates to come to the Salford game if they got a free ticket? Seriously.....1 month until the game...surely getting 10 mates/family/colleagues wouldn't prove to hard would it?
If the 2,330 fans had been given 5 free tickets for Salford then we would be looking at a gate of 13,000.......a full house? Open the entire ground and make everywhere apart from the East unallocated seating......get Every School in the area involved, run a competition for a Box for the season, a decent band and half time entertainment.....really push the boat out and give ourselves a chance of attracting some newbies to come back.

I really don't know what else to suggest other than free tickets as the massive marketing campaign planned and executed by marketing professionals obviously hasn't worked. 2,663 is the average gate for Salford......how much of a shot in the arm would it be to the club, the players and the media if we were to fill the Stoop?

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 502204.stm has your marketing team considered trying this, worked well for mansfield town, even if fans did pay as little a 3p

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 502204.stm has your marketing team considered trying this, worked well for mansfield town, even if fans did pay as little a 3p

Like it!

GF - the one issue I have with you is that whatever the club do seems to be wrong in your eyes. At last some marketing initiative in the Oyster Card holders - no you slag it of.

I was a bit perplexed in the 2 4 1 offer - the only place I saw it was the facebook page - why wasn't it on the main site?

Giving free tickets away in a paper may be a success or it may not but why not offer every amateur club in and around London the free tickets...they have an interest in the sport as they are playing it so they will turn out.

If you want to do this and give away free tickets why not give them out next week at the Melbourne game? There will be a larger crowd there then normal so why not get people to hand out freebies?

2 things-

Why would we announce a higher attendance than was there-Tax man!!

You only have to read the suggestions on here to realise there is no simple answer. Poster in railway stations, Flowers in roudabouts, free tickets but to who, let the Army in-what is the answer?