I suspect anyone that will walk away because an advertising board hasn't been updated was already intending to walk away.

The OP is Pathetic

You can usually tell how much real difficulty there is in your life by what you choose to moan about.

When the team meetings at work end up with complaints about the lack of teaspoons in the kitchen.

When your concerns about your neighbourhood revolve around next door not mowing their lawn enough.

When your health concerns involve pulling your hair back to see if its receding.

Then there is this thread. I'm sure you get the drift.

This club can't afford to lose any of its supporters and it is a small job changing the board to advertise the next home match. Although OTT with their comments and subsequent strop they have a point. If no bugger outside of the dedicated supporters know a game is on their unlikely to turn up. It's basic stuff that does not require a marketing genius.

On the radio last might MR said they were exploring the possibility of employing a marketing professional but as ever it would come down to funding. Personally I think they would pay for themselves but I don't hold the purse strings.

The club are now ramping up their community involvement once again so maybe we will see an upturn in attendances once their good work starts to filter through.

The point missed here is that the banner is quite small localised marketing. It isn't designed in my opinion to solely advertise each game, though clearly that is part of it.
The fact that there is something with Wakefield Trinity name and big pictures of players on it, is still advertising the game and the team. It isn't so black and white that if the details of the next game aren't on the board that we will lose customers. It's handy, but not the be all and end all.

I'd like it updated, but it isn't the mopst important thing

Out of all the poluted water that has flown under the bridges of Wakefield Trinity, it is this issue that is making the OP walk?
I smell an agenda.
OK the club continues to miss tricks or doesnt have the man power to fulfil its "obligations" but seriously... an out of date poster???
#somepeople

This - For me sometimes criticism of the club can be justified i.e. the highly contentious issue of stewards at the ground.

An out of date poster for me causes no concern - I’m just thankful that

A. We have a team playing in superleague
B. We won the advertised game and are on a bit of a roll

Let’s gain some stability at the club and attempt to grow on the back of that. Maybe even when we increase average attendance’s at games we can employ someone on a full time basis to improve the marketability of the club.

If you look hard enough you'll always find something wrong

Just to get something straight, one poster has a gripe about advertising boards and airs it on here, stating he is walking away as a result and is labelled pathetic by and large.

Another poster walks away apparently due to having a bottle confiscated and it's a travesty and he is hailed as some sort of martyr as a result?

From the little i understand of it, there's a bit more to it than that.

I come on here now again merely to rumours of signings and similar news but for obvious reasons I rarely post. I am nowhere near a 50 years fan but nor I am a new fan brought in the recent years of Glover's marketing. I feel these topics are born out of boredom through the mid week lul of news and rugby matches. But to add my two cents on this... go change em yourself

To be fair, the poster called the club "absolutely pathetic" and anyone who wasn't critical of the club sycophants because the advertisement hadn't been changed quickly enough.

The poster who has walked away did so after being thrown out of a game for not handing over a bottle of pop, a game he had paid for, after many years of attendances home and away. I don't know El Rey, never even spoken to him (apart from a couple of words when chatting to Vasty), but I know who he is and I know how much he has done for the club.

I think there there is a marked difference in the outrage each deserves.

Concealed in all the venom there is a genuine point to be made about marketing, but it wasn't made.

Think the club killed 3 birds with one stone.
There is a poster in my local chippy advertising 3 games, think it maybe Hull, Leeds and Widnes.
It's even got Jarrod Sammut on it, it's that out of date!
In theory you might have missed the Hull game but there is little excuse for missing the other two.

I'm not sure a change of poster will entice many more fans to the game, like MC said on the radio the inflated crowds from last season were lies and bucketloads of cheap and free tickets. Good priced and a 6 month staggered payment plan for season tickets next season should see a healthy increase in people through the turnstile.

I understand that, my quote about Sammut was very much tongue in cheek.
My point was that, it has little consequence changing the board on the outside of the ground, when there has been a poster advertising 3 games pinned up around the city for ages.