Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:13 am  

I wanna shoot the whole day down!

Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:28 am  

consider this, fax/fev and ourselves were all at home this past weekend, all playing shall we say teams with not the biggest following, leigh got just over 1500, fax and fev got just over 2000, what was the differnce, well about 500 paying people, why the difference, well i realise both fax and fev are in a final and they are buzzing at present, this would impact in a positive way in terms of crowds. We are not in a final and have been pasted twice in ther last few weeks, but the main reason is imo friday night rl is and should remain the domain of sl clubs, not championship clubs, its well documented i hate friday night rl, but the crowds this season unfortunately are showing i think that alot of people agree with me. Like i say its far to simplistic to say right play on a sun and the crowds will flood in, i'm not stupid enough to think that, but i do think it would help. For the benfit of our club please scrap friday rl.

Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:43 pm  

I heard it said that the club wanted to trial a mixture of Friday nights and Sundays. However I find it strange that 2 of the fixtures that they shunted to Friday night were the Halifax and Featherstone matches. Surely these are the two fixtures most likely to attract a paying away following on a Sunday when you would think most people have more free time in order to make the journey from Yorkshire to Leigh ?

When you consider how the evening fixtures drastically impact on our away support going the other way then it does seem a bizzare decision.

It is also now abundantly clear that Friday night games in front of 1500 fans is simply not working. Lets be honest, when did Leigh last attract such a dismal attendance in front of professional opposition?

Anyway I would say I am firmly old school and in the Sunday 3.30pm kick off camp but I find myself increasingly wondering if now is seriously the time to run with regular Saturday early evenings from next season. Especially during the long Summer months.

I do wonder but then how long do the club also continue to wonder.

Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:57 pm  

Total failure hopefully lesson have been learned and lets move back to sundays....oh and lets have a competitive season ticket

Seems our leaders reckoned people would turn up anyway so no need to discount season tickets because the royal boxes would be choccer and people will flock because its a friday night,yeah right

All what happened was people did not renew season tickets,got out of the habit of going[like me and 7 of our group] so how do you entice them people back????

If its a sunday match day,season ticket bought,no problem if its scattered around all the weekend ,forget it

Oh and one last thing lets ditch the thursday tv matches as we get diddly squit for it

Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:24 pm  

Re Thursday night games I read the other day that ALL Championship Clubs get £20000 each for the Premiership TV deal.

I went to watch Swinton at Fax last Sunday and the Fax fans I spoke too are all hoping our game against them will be switched to a Sunday.

Maybe we should consider footie kick off times for that day and decide ? BTW I have no idea when the footie season starts.

[Dick Jones]

Re: crowd last night : Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:32 pm  

Its starts the weekend of the Fax game

Re: crowd last night : Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:13 am  

Don't think so Frank. Premier got it for free i think

[Dick Jones]

Re: crowd last night : Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:18 am  

Thats what Trevor said at the LISA meeting they got it for free

Re: crowd last night : Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:51 am  

I read it on the Keighley board so someone is wrong.


It is on the thread about the Leigh game being switched.