If other towns teams had 50 plus years of not winning anything playing in a not fit for purpose ground you'd get the same response. Infact a lot would get a lot less support than we get. Don't worry I get a feeling we are turning a corner as a club and awakening the sleeping giant that is Wakefield Trinity all we can do is spread the word.

I reckon there's lots of reasons why people don't know about it; the game is rarely plugged on local news, the only BBC programme is on late on a monday night (American football does better), Sky seemingly couldn't give a stuff about the clubs/fans but do nothing to plug the game away from the usual fans, most local radio stations don't care, the local newspaper doesn't care, other clubs have a terrible perception of us/the ground, the ground is a dump in a particularly unpleasant part of Wakefield (away fans regularly have to walk through the grave yard to get to the stadium)... The list goes on and on

For people to want to come and watch the game then the game needs to be sold to them, people want value for money and they want entertaining. I hope and think the boys can do that on the pitch this year but I don't know how many new fans it will bring in until some of the bigger club/game issues are resolved

I think that sounds totally reasonable, perhaps those who drink in the Con Club can start coming into the ground 30 min earlier and buying a pint in the ground instead of elsewhere, then they can stand where they want to stand and not have to moan that the north stand is full of away supporters

The ISC gear looks amazing, my wife has said that I can spend £100 for my Christmas present on gear this time which is double my normal allocation

To me, that's the key. £5 a week is perceived differently to a one-off payment of £249. People are used to budgeting based on monrhly direct debits. If it was possible to offer more flexibility of membership, and iideally include different levels of committment, the income source could be expanded.

Pay £249 a year and attend 1 game, mmmmmm.

Nobody's saying that, although I know a bloke who can't attend matches anymore but still buys a season ticket to do his bit for the club. If you only can attend 1 match a season buy a shirt join the lottery etc it's still supporting the club

I totally agree, if someone said I me that I could pay £6/week by direct debit for a season ticket and club 1873 membership I'd think I'd got an amazing deal. I suppose it would need to be monitored and proper contracts in place similar to phone contracts which I guess costs lots to manage

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I would imagine a lot harder to manage, a few clubs tried this Widnes was one where you paid monthly for membership, don't know how it went or if it's still going but can imagine this system would cost a lot more to manage a throw up alsorts of problems along the way.