It's one way to improve your franchise application.... : Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:20 am  

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: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:43 am  

Hmeh – there's already a thread about it on the Quins board

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:29 am  

Bradford have been doing it for years with real people - all of whom get in for next to nothing and then make no noise.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:11 am  

'Airheads' director Lee Harris believes the gimmick can help Nottingham Rugby continue to build their fan base.'
plastic fans are the way forward, obviously taking a leaf out of manchester united's book

'About 1,000 inflatable fans were put in the stadium'

'The inflatables added to a crowd of 1,305 at Notts County's stadium, who watched Nottingham go down 15-14 to the Chiefs.'
a massive 305 turned up then

They recently revealed the cup run should ensure they do not go out of business, having announced in November they needed an injection of £150,000 to help funding problems linked to the credit crunch.
lovely way to end the article

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:13 am  

Having been to that ground to watch Notts County play when our coach stopped of in Nottingham on the way back from a weekend away watching us play Quins, I don't think 1000 inflatables added to a crowd of 1,305 would have made much of a difference at all I really hope that Notts RU didn't pay for that!

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:18 am  

Proof at last that Rugby Union report inflated crowd figures!

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:22 am  

The Key wrote:

Having been to that ground to watch Notts County play when our coach stopped of in Nottingham on the way back from a weekend away watching us play Quins, I don't think 1000 inflatables added to a crowd of 1,305 would have made much of a difference at all I really hope that Notts RU didn't pay for that!

i do

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:32 am  

Catalancs wrote:

'Airheads' director Lee Harris believes the gimmick can help Nottingham Rugby continue to build their fan base.'
plastic fans are the way forward, obviously taking a leaf out of manchester united's book

'About 1,000 inflatable fans were put in the stadium'

'The inflatables added to a crowd of 1,305 at Notts County's stadium, who watched Nottingham go down 15-14 to the Chiefs.'
a massive 305 turned up then

They recently revealed the cup run should ensure they do not go out of business, having announced in November they needed an injection of £150,000 to help funding problems linked to the credit crunch.
lovely way to end the article

i dont think they counted the inflated people as part of the crowd, as they are pieces of rubber rather than people.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:34 am  

dboy wrote:

Proof at last that Rugby Union report inflated crowd figures!

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:36 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i dont think they counted the inflated people as part of the crowd, as they are pieces of rubber rather than people.

never doubt the powers of the rugby union calculator

32,056 + 73,234 = 5/6 of the world's population watched the union world cup