: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:22 pm  

Better team = bigger gates

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:28 pm  

Great King Rat wrote:

Better team = bigger gates

tripe

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:41 pm  

heywood jablowme wrote:

tripe

Yep there is plenty spoken.
Yesterday was Youth United day, all U18s in for free and a day of activites organised. Takes loads of planning over a few months and loads of work inviting community groups, football teams etc etc but it is well worth it. The buzz around the ground on these days is superb but the key is to get them back again when the offer of something for nothing isn't there.
If anyone wants to know what kind of activites were on yesterday feel free to pm me (posting on iPod and would take too long to type here)
Would be worthwhile Leigh considering this(and Genesis I reckon) to try and get more through the gate and grab fans for the future.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:37 pm  

so you let them in for a free for a match then what?

will they come back when they have to pay?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:05 pm  

wbk666 wrote:

so you let them in for a free for a match then what?

will they come back when they have to pay?

I did mention that that is the challenge.
For the record all groups are followed up and there are initiatives in place to give them other perks on future such as cash back schemes.
Like I say the challenge is to get them back when it isn't free but it's important to get them to door in the 1st place.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:25 pm  

Maybe the bloke who owns the club doesn't like giving away free tickets when he puts his own hard earned in?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:24 pm  

Blueboy wrote:

FCUM of Manchester's gates have decreased in the past couple of years because Man united have been succesful again. When FCUM first formed it was novelty value and Man united weren't dominating everything.

It's not so much that they've been successful (there were then, too, more's the pity), but more that the Glazer family haven't actually changed anything, and the rudolph-nosed scots whinger in charge has been able to sign (or hang on to) pretty much who he wanted. Liverpool have. meanwhile, been in corporate-management chaos, Aresnal have had no money, and Chelski have gone through more manager than Man City. Suddenly, the perceived reason for setting up a fans club has melted. The Glazer's aren't that bad, Utd is much the same as it was before, and other clubs have had it for worse from their foreign investors (West Ham? Takhsin Shinawatra??)

So, there's no real 'need' for the fans' team after all. Unlike, say, Wimbledon, who's "club" has gone forever to the home of the concrete cows, leaving Winbledon FC the only actual Wimbledon club in Wimbledon.

Now, if MUFC upped and went to play in Philadelphia or Shanghai, we could all be happy.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:37 pm  

You're not a Bolton fan by any chance Joe are you

Anyway how to get more people through those bigger gates ?

First you need to realise what you want to achieve

Then look at the different ways it can be achieved , this involves understanding how the minds of your target people work

Then formulating a plan

Then having the conviction to see the plan through to it's conclusion

What it doesn't need is having the odd no mark ex celebrity down in half hearted attempts to get people in

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:09 pm  

Playing an attractive style of rugby would help considerably... we're far too "up the middle" from what I've seen.

You'd be surprised how many people will turn up to see us throw the ball around a bit more.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:16 pm  

the only way we cud get more fans is wen the past fans come back out of the woodwork and stop hiding at home