I've stated in the past that I was concerned that senior people at the club seemed to be putting excessive faith in the "build it and they will come" philosophy and were assuming we'd be like Warrington and Hull despite the obvious and huge differences in the circumstances of our moves.
I hoped that we wouldn't be over relying on optimism to get the increased crowds, but I'm concerned that it does look like the case. Yes, we've recorded fairly decent increases on like for like fixtures from last year, but in both cases the away support has doubled on last year.
The grand talk ahead of the move was the raising of us from a locality based club to one drawing support from the wider conurbation, but the marketing push so far has appeared to be leaflet drops in the area near the stadium, an ad in the Advertiser (both happening very close to the game) and Facebook.
