[Bulliac]

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:12 am  

Agreed. To be fair, I can't imagine either side putting out full first team squads at this time of year.

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:31 am  

The OP is right. Unless I'm missing it, our club are not promoting this game at all.
Is this really just because we have a game the day before? I'd hate to think it was Chalmers taking another swipe at SL. That wouldn't be fair on Lawrence.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's really just up to Hudds to promote, but why was it arranged so close to another friendly anyway?

[Bulliac]

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:44 am  

I think the way the Yorkshire cup games fell would have been unknown when the other games were arranged. We'd already arranged a number of pre-season matches well before that competition was agreed so it's that which has really impacted on the Huddersfield game.

[Bullseye]

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:02 pm  

I'd heard our media guy (Mr Spellcheck) had moved to pastures new. That might have an impact on publicity being done.

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:34 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

I'd heard our media guy (Mr Spellcheck) had moved to pastures new. That might have an impact on publicity being done.

We don't seem to have a problem promoting the Saturday game...

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:25 pm  

Nothus wrote:

We don't seem to have a problem promoting the Saturday game...

Can’t see us spending any money promoting a game where we don’t get a share of gate. Saturdays game is shared gate so makes sense to promote it from a financial POV. Fair enough stick something on website and Twitter but that’s as far as I’d go. It’s hudds job to promote it if they want to and they’ll have a vastly bigger marketing budget.

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:54 pm  

mat wrote:

Can’t see us spending any money promoting a game where we don’t get a share of gate. Saturdays game is shared gate so makes sense to promote it from a financial POV. Fair enough stick something on website and Twitter but that’s as far as I’d go. It’s hudds job to promote it if they want to and they’ll have a vastly bigger marketing budget.

You say that but had it not been for the OP providing the link you would not find any other mention of this game on the Giants website. Considering its a testimonial game too for Michael Lawrence I bet he's thrilled his own club are promoting it so heavily!!!

Its a shame when its benefiting someone who has given so much service to his club and the sport, but sadly I have no interest in this game at all. Instead I have far more interest in supporting those clubs shafted by Elstone and the rest of the SL chairmen in last seasons vote!!!

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:19 pm  

Nothus wrote:

The OP is right. Unless I'm missing it, our club are not promoting this game at all.
Is this really just because we have a game the day before? I'd hate to think it was Chalmers taking another swipe at SL. That wouldn't be fair on Lawrence.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's really just up to Hudds to promote, but why was it arranged so close to another friendly anyway?

It would be unfair on Michael Lawrence but in any war innocent people end up in the cross fire. SL clubs caused this so it would be their fault.

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:12 pm  

Very sad situation if Testimonials aren't being promoted out of petty feuds. Also sad if fans are agreeing with it.

Testimonial matches are supposed to be about rewarding long serving players and paying a tribute to them. Not about looking out for number 1 and pretending they aren't happening so our own pocket isn't affected. But such is the way the sport is these days, certainly at the Pro and Semi Pro level for the majority of clubs. Disappointing, but hardly surprising.


(Incidentally, I have seen Hudds promoting this via their Twitter account. It does seem like they could be doing a little more too though)

Re: Huddersfield away sunday 13th Jan : Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:20 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Very sad situation if Testimonials aren't being promoted out of petty feuds. Also sad if fans are agreeing with it.

Testimonial matches are supposed to be about rewarding long serving players and paying a tribute to them. Not about looking out for number 1 and pretending they aren't happening so our own pocket isn't affected. But such is the way the sport is these days, certainly at the Pro and Semi Pro level for the majority of clubs. Disappointing, but hardly surprising.


(Incidentally, I have seen Hudds promoting this via their Twitter account. It does seem like they could be doing a little more too though)

I genuinely can't remember if testimonials are normally promoted by both clubs, or usually just the club of the player in question. If it's standard practice for only one club to push it then fair enough.