Without putting too fine a point on it, Saturday is the first of 5 must win games.
As such, I would like to see the club give away 5,000 tickets for the game, open the East and West Stands.
Regardless of the result in 6 days, the game will me played with a lot of intensity and as such, may well convert some of the 5,000 freebies to return.
Someone posted recently that it is 1 steward to 250 fans.....so 20 extra stewards will cost no more that £1,500 and if 5,000 freebies didn't generate that much additional profit over the bar I would be amazed. Oh....you'd also get an extra 5,000 on the database as well!...all for a cost of 30p each (which you'd get back over the counter).
FREE tickets to Australians...open the bar at 12pm, Australia v The Box 1pm..............game on at 3pm.....what's not to like?
I know it's short notice, but 5,000 free tickets advertised on the TNT website would be snapped up pretty sharpish. Call every walkabout pub in London, fax/email them a poster and send them 300 tickets to give away! Do the same with every pub in Twickenham...........Brentford, Richmond...etc..etc...
Pull out all the stops to get an 8,000+ crowd.
The alternative.....? Last years crowd v the Bulls was 2,534 and the bulls aren't going to bring many down......so 2,750
is what I predict and that will include 150 teenage dancers that have no intention of ever coming back (or even watching the game)