A chance to speak to Ray about your ideas , see Race Night thread.

Some of what you say is true, however having been to Castle Park a few times last season it just looked like ordinary people stood on the terrace rather than captains of multinational industry. Also they have a lot of youngsters there as well.

Remember I did say "and the media they own". This is the media that normal people in the street use for pretty much all their information. I know people who go because of the networking, and others that go because there's no such thing as a hat that says "Look How Middle Class I am Now". Everyone who goes to the Dons go because they want to watch Rugby League; there is pretty much no other reason.

It should be said that the Knights, and all Rugby Union clubs in general, have amazing youth set ups from Under 12's upwards at least. I actually used to play for them myself. And while the people at the top are setting the agendas, Union will be the dominant code in schools and the cycle continues.

I should probably say, the reason I even mention that as it is drifting away slightly from the point of this thread.

For me, before we can look at how to get crowds at the Dons to rise, we have to identify why they they have fallen this year. We will probably find the solution to that problem will be the answer to both. I honestly don't believe the reason our crowds have dropped is much to do with anything happening at Castle Park.

So what has changed since last year?

We are playing in a higher division (Potentially positive affect)

We play teams geographically closer (Potentially positive affect..although the travelling support is not as great as we were lead to believe but nor can we put the responsibility of our attendance on other clubs)

We lose more often (Potentially negative affect)

The price is 25% higher (Potentially negative affect)

The second two are obviously a bigger force than the first two

I've said it before, go to any other club like ours and the concession price is of the order of two thirds the full price.
Not at the Dons it is isnt, it's an extortionate 80%.
Nobody listens .... so who cares?

I do think a review of the pricing structure and greatly reduced prices for:

Students
People on Benefits
Pensioners
Children
Family Deals

Would help to get more in at the moment for a parent to take there child via car its a very expensive day out. The same goes for pensioners and those on benefits which is a large number of the population of Doncaster.

This is very true. The club can't do everything themselves.

I think the club tried the "download a poster" to allow people to put one up in their workplace at some point shortly after DonsNews joined us. Not seen anything mentioned about this recently though.

Lottery agents used to help keep the profile of the club higher by the work they did. We need to do something similar by allowing shops, especially newsagents, the opportunity to sell tickets and receive a commission.

If 20 shops sold 5 tickets each, we could increase our attendance by around 20%!

We're listening S/O ... and we care!

Seriously though, I hope the club are listening to our concerns because we all have the club's best interest at heart.

Yes, times are also hard for people in work who do not qualify for a concession but no body seems to bother about that.

Charge pensioners double I would say. Oh wait a minute not a good idea.

There used to be a Dons Supporters Club branch at the Cross Keys pub in the village of Wroot it was featured on Calendar & Look North the pub is still there I don't know if the supporters club is still in existence.

I see that Fev are not averse to special offers out of their area. They have a special family ticket offer advertised on the Donny Knights website. Quite ironic that clubs like Fev have moaned about SL clubs for years and now they start acting like one.

that is what lost the club support

I was joking , am allowed to being 60 plus. Anyway "you've never had it so good".