Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:12 am  

Fax Missionary wrote:

Personally I always felt the club never put enough effort behind re-engaing the lost thousands of older supporters who were lost to the club when they moved from Thrum Hall and the advent of SL. Still stuns me how many still feel betrayed by the club the once followed in droves all over the country, irrespective of the division they were in.

Its alright targetting youth, but when parents and grandparents really dont want to go they will make any excuse not to. I was dragged there by my Dad as a kid and through his enthusiasm became hooked. Not sure what the answer is to getting them back, but I still feel its a critical component thats missing when it comes to raising Fax's profile.

Easy , start beating Leeds and Bradford on a regular basis , and they will come back , unfortunatly that option is no longer available to you , so you have to look elsewhere for your future

How many times have you seen certain posters on the VT post ' its a local game for local people ' in an attempt to insult so called anti expansionists ? , when in fact what they post is exactly what we need to be doing , as far as clubs like ours are concerned , we are a local sport for local people , that should be our main focus

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:21 am  

marillion man wrote:

All I'll say to that is, yes, they ran like scared rabbits the last time we were in SL, while some of us hung around.
Didn't the Bulls cup-tie speak volumes to you ? the turnout was dire in all honesty.


The people of Halifax have had three big finals to enjoy in the most recent of consecutive seasons, for only 3K to go for a day/weekend at the Blackpool final in my opinion is rubbish. I was talking to a chap at the gym I use the other day and he was telling me that his party have purchased 50 tix for the NRC final, only 8 of those are regular supporters, so if other groups are in similar percentage situations, the take up really isn't that good is it ?
I should imagine the Ivy house will again be running a trip that has non-regulars amongst it's party too, and if you think about what's in front of the amateur game clubs like Halifax & Leigh will suffer spectator wise when the NCL changes to summer rugby, because lads won't be able to be involved with RL all weekend if they have families. The RFL have a lot to answer for.

Yes , that is my main fear as well , I pointed it out when the changeover was first mentioned , were at the moment your average fan can get one day a weekend to go and watch a game all year round , when they move to summer you will have the amateurs playing Saturday with a £ 2 entrance fee and cheap beer and then the local semi pro club on a sunday , which option will many fans take ?

As you say , sometimes they dont actually think these things through properly

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:11 am  

Starbug wrote:

Easy , start beating Leeds and Bradford on a regular basis , and they will come back , unfortunatly that option is no longer available to you , so you have to look elsewhere for your future

How many times have you seen certain posters on the VT post ' its a local game for local people ' in an attempt to insult so called anti expansionists ? , when in fact what they post is exactly what we need to be doing , as far as clubs like ours are concerned , we are a local sport for local people , that should be our main focus

I have got to agree with you on this one ,I think it`s time that we distanced ourselves from the RFL expantionist model and embraced and celebrated our individualisam as a local sport.
As all other fans that have been around for years I know dozens and dozens of people who have stopped going to the matches because of things that the RFL have imposed on us. One of them being the stoping of promotion and relegation and while we cannot do anything about that I do think we should be "selling the club" on ideals that are important to our own town and it`s people and stop bothering about the "buying in "of RFL claptrap.
I like you hope whoever wins the fancy dress tickets chucks them on the floor and refuses to take them because will they be doing the same at the Challenge Cup final and offering 2 tickets to next years Blackpool final for the Championship ? No you bet your life they won`t.

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:36 am  

Time to start celebrating the flatcap and not the expantionist model it`s not right for our town.

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:51 pm  

johnny freeman fan club wrote:

Time to start celebrating the flatcap and not the expantionist model it`s not right for our town.

Featherstone wear flat caps!

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:55 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

:MOTOR:

Featherstone wear flat caps!

While you are correct , it is also an icon of northern values of hard work and fair play , and something we should be proud of , if the cap fits , as they say , wear it I say

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:06 pm  

halifaxjohn wrote:

:MOTOR:

Featherstone wear flat caps!

Yes they do and there is nothing wrong with the flatcap and we should not let the fact that there are a minority of people who wore /wear them intent on causing trouble denegrate them. Much the same as the EDL or other such parties seem to have hijacked the Union Flag as there symbol doesn`t mean if we fly the Union flag we are nazies or if we wear a flat cap we are thugs.
In a way we have been made to feel almost ashamed of being patriotic because the Union Jack has been hi-jacked likewise we are almost being made to feel parochial because we like local derbys and want relegation and promotion.

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:27 pm  

johnny freeman fan club wrote:

Yes they do and there is nothing wrong with the flatcap and we should not let the fact that there are a minority of people who wore /wear them intent on causing trouble denegrate them. Much the same as the EDL or other such parties seem to have hijacked the Union Flag as there symbol doesn`t mean if we fly the Union flag we are nazies or if we wear a flat cap we are thugs.

Too true Johnny me-boy. Too many things in this world get tarnished by low lifes, jumping on a symbol of good honest hard work.

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:14 am  

we are in i tell ya!!!!!! innnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

i heard another rumour last night from someone i trust to be on the ball.

Nobby is preparing us for SL.

Re: SUPER LEAGUE?! : Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:57 pm  

SIMMSFAXTEDDY wrote:

we are in i tell ya!!!!!! innnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

i heard another rumour last night from someone i trust to be on the ball.

Nobby is preparing us for SL.

We had all this in 2008. Steve O'Connor had spent over £1M on the club so surely he must know we're in. He offered a £1/2M bond as security and we still got overlooked. If I was a betting man (and I am) it will be 14 teams with Wakefield dropping out.