Re: Best Game Day : Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:37 pm  

Saturday wouldn't work because the start and end of the rugby season overlap with the football season and, whether you like it or not, football is the most popular sport in this country and especially in Sheffield, we'd lose a considerable number off our attendances if it clashed every week for the first few and last few weeks of the season.

Re: Best Game Day : Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:09 am  

Opponents can object to a Friday night game.

Re: Best Game Day : Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:20 am  

Think next year, get an opponent to agree (and Sheffield United) and do a big promotion for a Friday night game.

Get big companies down that work close by down and allocate them sections to sell to staff etc..

If you never try you never know!!

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Best Game Day : Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:26 am  

Friday night games are ok as a one off, but when we had them for a few seasons it was horrible

Re: Best Game Day : Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:07 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

Saturday wouldn't work because the start and end of the rugby season overlap with the football season and, whether you like it or not, football is the most popular sport in this country and especially in Sheffield, we'd lose a considerable number off our attendances if it clashed every week for the first few and last few weeks of the season.

What about a compromise of Sundays when the seasons overlap and Saturdays when it's only the RL season? Or is consistency throughout the whole of the season more important?

Re: Best Game Day : Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:41 pm  

Consitency is important as people who work saturdays will be less inclined to buy a season ticket if games are spread over the weekend. Its best to know.

Re: Best Game Day : Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:21 am  

As Badvibes said it's consistency. Months without a home game and games at Don Valley and Spinkhill don't help develop a supporter base. If the whole Bramall Lane thing is to work we need it for all league games with no daft breaks and hopefully a Friday game which the cub can promote and get some new fans in.

Re: Best Game Day : Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:36 am  

The problem is Liam that we cant help that break, the footy club has to re-lay the pitch, and we have to vacate while they do that. Personallym i dont mind going back to DVS for a one-off.

Re: Best Game Day : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:03 am  

Dr Badvibes wrote:

Consitency is important as people who work saturdays will be less inclined to buy a season ticket if games are spread over the weekend. Its best to know.

You would know. Sundays during the soccer season. Saturdays outside it.

What bu99ers it up far more is Sky changing games at short notice and Dewsbury refusing to play at Bramall Lane.

Having said that, season ticket sales seem to hold up quite well.

Re: Best Game Day : Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:46 am  

Speaking of, is that stamp card offer still going on? At the Dewsbury and Barrow games no one had a clue about where I could get my card stamped.

True, sky moving games doesn't help. But clubs could do with the extra ££££