: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:54 pm  

I remember that a few times about two years ago the Lucky 7 agents gave tickets away to certain match's like Harlequins and Huddersfield when they collected the subs, so far this year and last year from what i can remember there have been none.

I was given two tickets to the Huddersfield match two years ago, due to me having season tickets i gave them to a bloke at work who took his son, they both enjoyed the game and after persuading him to do so he bought 2 adult and 2 kids season tickets for last year (East Stand), not happy with the view he managed to get 2 adults and 2 kids season tickets for this year in the North Stand which is obviously more money spent.

All this because of a couple of free tickets, why have the club stopped doing this does anybody know

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:58 pm  

They cant afford to take the gamble?

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:01 pm  

RL Lover wrote:

They cant afford to take the gamble?

There is no harm in giving away around 500 tickets to see the Quins, Hudders and Wakefield match's, there obviously not going to fill the stadium and the promotional tickets were for the West Stand anyway plus your bound to make money on the food/drink side of things.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:04 pm  

Inside Knowledge wrote:

There is no harm in giving away around 500 tickets to see the Quins, Hudders and Wakefield match's, there obviously not going to fill the stadium and the promotional tickets were for the West Stand anyway plus your bound to make money on the food/drink side of things.

Could it not possibly alienate the regular fans who have paid good money to watch the same stuff?

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:15 pm  

RL Lover wrote:

Could it not possibly alienate the regular fans who have paid good money to watch the same stuff?

It would only be 3 games per year and if the regular fans care about the club they would want what was best i.e, advertising (Public), advertising (word of mouth), money being spent of food and drink, programme sales.
Also i think that if you work out how much it is on the door to a price of a season ticket, i think it works out that the Season ticket holder get's 3 games for free, although im not sure.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:25 pm  

As far as I know, a certain number of free tickets ARE still given out.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:31 pm  

I'm pretty sure they don't give away as many tickets as they used to.
I've always thought the club seem very reluctant to spend money marketing even before the recession, advertisements around the town are non existant, even the sign as you go into tesco sometimes advertises the game that has already happened.
I think they should be looking to have more packages available than just a season ticket, for example a half season ticket or just a plain old package that gets you 3 games plus added benefits such as your 10%. That way get more people on the database, increase value of e-zine advertisements etc.
Also why oh why do they have a Murrayfield advertisement on the front page when we have a game this weekend, which a lot of people could be interested in due to Friday's win.

: Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:42 am  

RL Lover wrote:

Personally I would like to see ex crowd favourites paraded during half time.

Only legends though such as;

Jonathon Davies
Dessie Drummond
Les Boyd
Kevin Ellis
etc etc etc

I remember a couple of years back they did it with Boyd and it made my day. Its better than those rubbish dancers.

that was the day my son Boyd got to meet his namesake!

: Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:44 am  

sponsor the wolves at chester zoo!

but insist they wear wire shirts on match days

: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:14 am  

We could use the pull of our sponsors to get people in.

Kent county cricket have a tree on the pitch a cantebury to add character to the ground. We could put a wind turbine in one corner