: Tue May 05, 2009 6:45 pm
In some respects the guy is right , if we are to survive on people just wanting to come to the ground 15 minutes before kick off and go home straight after then our future could be bleak
The whole ' ethos ' of new stadia is that they are ' working ' for you 7 days a week
Unfortunatley we are not in that position as the new stadium costs us more money 7 days a week than we were making in Hilton park
We have around 15 days a year to make enough money to run a semi professional RL team in the second tier of the sport
Unless we can get over 4,000 paying spectators into the ground on those 15 days we will always be in a position of requiring ' extra ' financial input
We cannot just rely on the 80 minutes of RL to bring that number of people in , as you cannot control what happens on the pitch , nobody can
We have to make the whole match day experience good enough that people are willing to come even if the product on the pitch doesn't always come up to people's expectations
This person sounds like he enjoyed the social part of the day as much as the game itself , I would guess there are a lot more like him
Lose them at our peril
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