Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:33 am  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

What about the lottery - is that still part of SUFCs?

I understand the Eagles made savings in admin costs by merging it but is it better to claw it back now?

No.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:44 am  

greybeard1 wrote:

Apart from few hundred diehard fans, Sheffield doesn't want to know us so I don't think it matters where we play, we still won't get decent crowds.

You may be right but it's no good just accepting that or we'll still be treading water in 20 years time.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:06 am  

griff1998 wrote:

No.

Is that to both?

Are we geeting a good deal then?

Someone needs to convince me

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:30 pm  

E.S.O wrote:

You may be right but it's no good just accepting that or we'll still be treading water in 20 years time.

True enough but we have probably been saying this since the club reformed and we are in crowd terms no better off. In playing terms last season was one of our best ever but our smallest gate of the season (I think) was against Widnes in the play offs, we took 1 coach load to Leigh. I don't know how many we took to Warrington as I went by car but there were at least 15 Featherstone coaches that I counted.

We know the problem - apathy but how we overcome this I don't know. Until we do then we will continue to tread water, which is at least better than drowning

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:02 pm  

BTW I do not mean apathy on the part of the club - far from it, I mean apathy from Sheffield as a whole.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:19 pm  

Would love to see the attendance stats from the top divison when we were there,Im sure we regulary got above 3k which is miles away at the minute,Like greybeard says weve been banging on about crowds for years,There comes a time when your head hurts and you cant take it nomore.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:25 am  

Our gates are half what they were in 1991/92, when we had a season in the 8 team Div 2.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:35 am  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

Is that to both?

Are we geeting a good deal then?

Someone needs to convince me

Our lottery struggled along on 1200 members, paying a quid apiece a week.

SUSA offer weekly prizes of £2000, £250 , three of £100 and more £10 consolations than I can be bothered to count. Then there's a Mega Prize Draw of £5000 every so often plus consolations of £1000, Several at £250, 80 at £10 and thirty bonus prizes (whatever they are).

We were offering £100 for five days.

How many would we claw back if we set up a rival lottery ?

And that's not even thinking about the costs of running it. Collecting a quid off 1200 people and logging it all into the computer is a lot of work.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:01 pm  

I like Don Valley. For me, the running track is the only negative. Plenty of positives.

Re: Don Valley (Our Home again) : Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:31 am  

This is probably the reason for lack of games at Bramall Lane.


The club are aware of the state of the pitch and are laying a new 75k pitch at the end of the season.
Its going to be one of the new semi-synthetic ones that have a plastic blade of grass for every 10 real ones.
Apparently the synthetic grass blades have roots which go 18 inches below the pitch so its going to be a Big job to install.

Suppose you need a perfect surface when you play like Brazil.