Crying shame : Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:00 pm  

The attendance today was shameful in the sense that the team deserve better. There can be no better argument to demonstrate the paucity of the clubs marketing strategy. They even seem to losing our hard fought for hard core. I know the weather was poor, the Celts did not bring many and the other distractions in London but the club will disappear up its own exhaust pipe at this rate. There is no point in building a winning side if the effort is not put in to build the crowds. I know this is a well tread path but no one seems to be listening. I know we have 'themed' matches coming up but we have got to grab the publics imagination and it is clearly not happening. I was hoping Mark Evans would climb aboard and rescue the image of the club, I cannot see how the game will catch fire in the capital if he does not.

THE TEAM DESERVES BETTER

Rant over, over to you Gutters.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:40 pm  

Although I didn't go today I often feel embarrassed for the players at the poor crowds. It can't be a lot of fun for them when they see what else is on offer elsewhere and I do worry the players will be drawn away too, to play for a "big club". Oh and thats not even taking into consideration the financial impact it has

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:47 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Although I didn't go today I often feel embarrassed for the players at the poor crowds. It can't be a lot of fun for them when they see what else is on offer elsewhere and I do worry the players will be drawn away too, to play for a "big club". Oh and thats not even taking into consideration the financial impact it has

Oh dear, 2300 is really pitiful and indeed the players deserve better

The club simply HAVE to do someone and it can no longer be acceptable to juts allow this to drift on and on

Fair play to those who go but something needs to be done very quickly to attract more people. We have been talking about this being the biggest issue for years and nothing at all seems to be happening

Its up to the club to take ther initiatve and not rely on fans finding out about the sport for themselves

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:50 pm  

as I have stated before free(I remind You Free) tickets for local schools and colleges.With contact address a pre requisite. Then real advertising We are the only super league/Premier union club in London. We are Londons team.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:53 pm  

I know it's too late now, but i would of put some adverts in London football team's last match programme. "Need your Summer's Sport Fix?! Come and see the premier Rugby League team in the South". Would of probably added some on the gate.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:08 pm  

As for the 'core' support, the events of this week are just a continuation of events that seem to show the club for some reason is at best ambigious at worst determined to let it bleed away.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:15 pm  

Quite agree, the time for talking is over and something needs to be done. We are no longer standing still, we are going backwards.

The club, well the GM whose main role was to "get bums on seats" needs to actually do something. I'm sure he's doing 'something' but whatever it is it's not working.

Have we seen any marketing other than overpaying a kid to dance which brought in a few screaming girls that didn't return.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:24 pm  

There was supposed to be half price tickets for this game for those that came free to Wakefield, if if 100 had cam back it would have been a start but the offer didn't materialise. (A)Pathetic.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:57 pm  

steve@code13 wrote:

Quite agree, the time for talking is over and something needs to be done. We are no longer standing still, we are going backwards.

The club, well the GM whose main role was to "get bums on seats" needs to actually do something. I'm sure he's doing 'something' but whatever it is it's not working.

Have we seen any marketing other than overpaying a kid to dance which brought in a few screaming girls that didn't return.

Well said. Thats what I said after the apparent success of the last fans forum but got shot down. All talk, wheres the action? No where.

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:50 pm  

As I was leaving Twickenham station on my way to the match I was collared by an Aussie asking directions to the ground and advice over tickets and where to sit etc. It turned out he was a Canberra Raiders fan over here for a couple of months and looking forward to seeing Dave Howell & Matt Gafa as well as the four ex-Canberra players in the Crusaders' squad.

He told me he'd tried to book a ticket online but the website wouldn't allow him to do so and had initially implied the match was sold out. I felt embarrassed as I told him the crowd would be around 3,000, but three sides of the ground would be shut and he'd only have a limited choice of where to sit. I directed him to the ticket office and told him to ask to look at the seating plan before choosing a seat at a suitable price and not to sit in the front five rows as the view would be $h1te. Hopefully his matchday experience wasn't too negative.