Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:33 am  

All you hear is that RL is dying it will cease to exist in a decade if sky pulls the plug we’re doomed etc but the fact is RL has been around for over a century it will always exist clubs will go bust and rise again (as in all sports) there will be money in the game and there will be times when the game struggles the obsession with fans paying is pointless what would you rather see 10,000 fans paying a tenner or 5000 paying 20 its the same outcome just one has a better atmosphere and did anyone expect Toronto not to give out free tickets its a new sport they have to entice fans somehow every club does it to a certain extent

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:36 am  

Lebron James wrote:

Only 2 clubs in SL increased their attendance this season. St Helens were one. Hull F.C. wasn’t the other one

Regards

King James

Our season pass sales were up, we then played a summer of dead rubber games including 11 defeats, no marketing team can polish a turd.

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:02 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Our season pass sales were up, we then played a summer of dead rubber games including 11 defeats, no marketing team can polish a turd.

Not sure exactly but I suspect without the derby game the average would drop below 11k

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:06 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Our season pass sales were up, we then played a summer of dead rubber games including 11 defeats, no marketing team can polish a turd.

Hudds apparently did well with their free ticket entry to Catalans, and that game was one of the biggest turds you could ever see.

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:41 pm  

Huddersfield have resorted to dirt cheap season tickets £139 to try and attract a few fans to games in 2019.

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:48 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

What is this fascination with fans paying money.

Clubs get their income from a lot of sources.

Sponsorship and tv is the main one.

If a club has enough turnover whether it is fans coming through the turnstiles with cash or sponsorship or tv or drunk fans buying shirts and hotdogs who cares,

If they have the money to pay the players and run the club it does not matter

there was a report online that most nearly half of the premier league clubs (not including the usual big 5 or 6) could survive on tv revenue money alone, even if they had no supporters bringing in cash! thats how ludicrous football has become! if only RL could negotiate a fraction of that deal!

Re: Crowds (again!) : Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:38 pm  

number 6 wrote:

there was a report online that most nearly half of the premier league clubs (not including the usual big 5 or 6) could survive on tv revenue money alone, even if they had no supporters bringing in cash! thats how ludicrous football has become! if only RL could negotiate a fraction of that deal!

If only rugby leagu was on other channels has well has sky that would pay for them selfs we have 5 channels ie bbc itv channel 4 channel 5 and bbc 2 if one or more took some games it would be great