OK, Wakey and Catalans aren't traditionally big draws and the wakey gate was 76 people up on 2009, but WTF are the club up to? The Massive Marketing Campaign seems to have really kicked in....resulting in our lowest home gate against Catalans and I believe our 5th lowest home gate since 2000.

With Salford(2,663) and Huddersfields (2,800) visits a month away, and neither being massive draws the club may find themselves 1/3 of the way through an important HOME season with an average gate of under 3,000.
In 2005 we were nearly at 4,000 and in 2006 we were at 4,200......where have these people gone? What is being done to get them back?

OK, there were lots of OTHER things to do on Sunday, but 2,330 is a disgrace. These are the games that if you are going to give tickets away should be targeted. Close games traditionally and exciting ends......but no, we will probably see the same mistakes being made again and get our 1 bumper crowd of the season to witness us get hammered by someone

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