Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 5:12 pm  

almost 'twice as many fans' at Leigh v Halifax today, bless.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 5:36 pm  

Troll

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 5:57 pm  

For me there were three significant factors in the poor crowd. 1) lack of adequate communication in general, but specifically regarding the rearranged fixture date... Even the Cas Tigers match day programme showed the Huddersfield game as being on 10th May at 3pm. 2) the rearrangement of fixtures is a pain. I arrange my commitments around the fixture list and luckily I was able to make changes to my plans in order to attend, but not everyone will be so fortunate. 3) The weather was awful and affected travel - I was like a drowned rat after the walk from the airport & the M56 / M6 for my journey were dreadful.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 6:15 pm  

fax-boys wrote:

It took my daughter 75mins from Duchy Rd to the stadium.

Was that on Friday? It was extraordinary circumstances on Friday with the East Lancs/M60/M61 Junction closed, but it shows how vulnerable the stadium is to an M60 problem. That's not a unique issue to the stadium though, Prestwich has often come to a standstill because of a problem on the M60.

fax-boys wrote:

You will suffer with poor attendances till you get out of that stadium

I don't think it's that black and white, but it's going to take work. Since moving there we've had two challenges - attracting fans and retaining them. The problem has been that on occasions we've attracted new fans and the double whammy of a poor display from the team, and a poor experience visiting the stadium has made it harder to keep those fans. With a full strength team playing good stuff (i.e. the Wigan game) hopefully we can overcome one of those, but work still needs doing on the other.

fax-boys wrote:

Fantastic Stadium built in the wrong place.If ever you do get a big crowd its a problem leaving.

For afternoon games I'd play the Academy game on the community pitch with a 5pm kick off and have a band on outside the fans bar post match, and maybe the odd post-match drinks promo. That might encourage a few more people decide not to head off straight away, and in turn might help reduce the congestion leaving.

Keeping more people around after the game might also help foster the sort of community spirit you used to get in the variety club at the Willows, and give the next generation of fans more opportunity to meet the players.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 6:43 pm  

he must have been at the wrong game then seen as it was on friday

i must admit i was amazed that salford brought half their home support to ours ( 973 i think) unless these are the regulars who were there on friday it makes you wonder if the stadium effect does keep people away, although saying that it doesn't seem to affect sale supporters.

i know how frustrating it is trying to attract crowds, we have just accepted that the huddersfield public just aren't interested in watching the giants.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 7:16 pm  

I went in St Michaels on Friday before the game and they only found out at about 6.00 pm that there was a Salford game on. Apparently in the Unicorn it was the same.
This is our great Communication and Marketing Drive! If people don't know about the game how can they turn up?
I think Friday was a game for the die hards due to the awful weather, game on Sky, low away turnaout and a worse grid lock than usual.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 8:01 pm  

Salford 1961 wrote:

I went in St Michaels on Friday before the game and they only found out at about 6.00 pm that there was a Salford game on. Apparently in the Unicorn it was the same.
This is our great Communication and Marketing Drive! If people don't know about the game how can they turn up?

Fair point. A mate of mine is fairly new fan and a season ticket holder, but doesn't do social media, generally doesn't go looking at the club website, and doesn't have sky. They only knew the game was moved from Sunday because I told them.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 8:15 pm  

£5 per ticket for the Wire game according to the clubs twitter account. At least something good has come from the woeful turnout vs Hudds.

Personally would've done this offer for the Hudds game to boost one of traditionally lower attended games rather than Wire which usually pulls in a decent crowd.

No excuses really now for the Warrington game though.

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 8:45 pm  

If you can't get at least 5,000 vs wire with that offer you might as well pack it in then and there..wire will take 2000 I imagine so I'm pretty sure Salford could muster 3000 for what is a local Derby game

Re: Vickers - again : Sun May 10, 2015 9:17 pm  

I'll be making my mind up on whether to attend based on the outcome of this week's judiciary. If either Morley or Hauraki are suspended then I won't be attending.