Quote: kevbanham "The club doesnt do anything to promote the club or attract fans, thats what us fans are saying. Fair enough the chairman has brought in better players and used his own money but the club as a whole is not been marketed. We have the development officers who work with the kids but thats all and the odd radio advert and news paper advert.'"
Well could you not start to help promote your club yourselves? I know you need a strong home fan base but it will be a long time coming ,every club is strugling I`m afraid .You should play to your strenghs ,what has Blackpool got that no-one else has? Yes a popular place to visit ,your way ahead of all the other teams on the M62 as at least people like to visit Blackpool. Why don`t you look at the fixture lists when you are at home and just find the teams that have no game /playing in France and advertise it on the message boards. I did that myself for my own team a couple of seasons ago.
The 9s are coming up I went last year and intend to go this time , why don`t a few of you get together and get a flier printed with your home games (you could try to get it sponsored) asking people from differant clubs to come back when they have no game of their own.
Like another poster says maybe a hotel would team up with you on that one.As I have found sometimes a few people can make a big differance if they start to help out a little bit.I hope someone stops me when I come to the 9s encouraging me to come back.Look at all the stag does that go to Blackpool there surely must be some of them from rugby clubs that if it was marketed to them could start the weekenf off at a game .We are all going to have to start thinking out of the box to help our clubs survive as don`t expect any help from the RFL they are too busy looking after Super League to bother about anyone else.
