Re: east stand closed : Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:29 pm  

Can we just cut to the chase we want the east stand open because its unreserved seating which means people can sit at the front and people who want to stand can go to the back all this talk about school trips looking at the west stand around the edges there was a good hundred seats free stick them there.

When there is a demand for the east to be open I'm sure they will open it.

Re: east stand closed : Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:41 pm  

True it doesn't look good with one stand closed this week and undoubtedly two stands closed next week and I agree we need more attendees. but (and I am not one of them) what must Season Ticket Holders make of the constant dishing out of free tickets when they have paid for a full season yet it's possible for me to get in free every week?!

Re: east stand closed : Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:33 am  

The Realist wrote:

True it doesn't look good with one stand closed this week and undoubtedly two stands closed next week and I agree we need more attendees. but (and I am not one of them) what must Season Ticket Holders make of the constant dishing out of free tickets when they have paid for a full season yet it's possible for me to get in free every week?!

To increase the support base of the club is vital, but also probably THE most difficult thing to achieve , one way would be to have a winning team topping the league and getting trophies on a regular basis , but that is unlikely and still not a guarantee to increase your support

So, what can you do?
Lets look at what you have?

1, Relatively no money to spend
2, A team that will most likely finish in the bottom half of SL
3, A nice shiny new stadium ( although parts arent quite that ' shiny ' )
4 , A SL licence

So how can you best use the above to increase you support base?

You mention that free tickets would get abused? , true, if you dont control their usage properly, this you can do by only having them in the East stand , use your community dept, get into the schools around Irlam,Cadishead,Sale,Trafford and the other local area's

All tickets given out to be family tickets only, no kids no entrance, early entrance coupled with activities organised through the community dept, no transfers to the other stands , no alcohol sales in the ' family ' stand

Quite simply ' get them in ' , only then can you sell your club to them, you need to get them in in big numbers, its no good putting 200 in, get 1500 in all at one go, find cheap merchandise, t shirts , hats, bloody vuvuzelas if you have to and get them making noise, collect their ' data ' do this 3 times, 4 th game offer them all a cheap ticket, 20 quid for 2 adults and up to 4 kids

Show faith in your coaching staff, their ' remit ' should be attacking RL, even if it costs you the odd loss, their job is to , ' entertain ' as much as win , you cannot be relegated, use that fact especially at home matches

Continue to do this season upon season, there is no magic wand you can wave, only by taking risks, showing initiative and hard work will you get what you want, just having a team playing every other week is no longer enough

Re: east stand closed : Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:44 am  

Odd as it sounds but thought the closed stand looked brilliant on Friday, nice to see the old banners up but thought all the advertising really made it stand out compared to when the first couple of games were held and it had nothing on it.

Agree with others that the design is flawed and that they really should have made that all standing and had the South stand a dedicated family stand, would have looked better for SKY and the corporate bods. Still though every time I go the new place is growing on me, no grotty lavs, no squeezing beer from cans, no mad rush to beet the stewards at half time and best of all an improving team on the pitch.

Re: east stand closed : Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:48 am  

Michigan red wrote:

Odd as it sounds but thought the closed stand looked brilliant on Friday, nice to see the old banners up but thought all the advertising really made it stand out compared to when the first couple of games were held and it had nothing on it.

Agree with others that the design is flawed and that they really should have made that all standing and had the South stand a dedicated family stand, would have looked better for SKY and the corporate bods. Still though every time I go the new place is growing on me, no grotty lavs, no squeezing beer from cans, no mad rush to beet the stewards at half time and best of all an improving team on the pitch.

It really is daft when Warrington have the best layout for RL and their stadium was essentially the 1 st one built and yet others, including The LSV havent copied it

Re: east stand closed : Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:41 pm  

Good constructive post, Starbug - please submit your CV to the Marketing dept!

Re: east stand closed : Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:38 am  

on check the tickets for sale on the club site
for the London game only the west and east are open
for the Leeds game all is open

Re: east stand closed : Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:39 am  

bryanthered wrote:

on check the tickets for sale on the club site
for the London game only the west and east are open
for the Leeds game all is open

It's West and South open for the London game.

Re: east stand closed : Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:08 pm  

GT wrote:

It's West and South open for the London game.

A low interest game that you are well capable of winning , the perfect opportunity , if the will to make it happen was there ?

Re: east stand closed : Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:14 pm  

Starbug wrote:

A low interest game that you are well capable of winning , the perfect opportunity , if the will to make it happen was there ?

We seem to have more of a history of pushing to get a crowd in against the top teams, then getting battered on the pitch.