Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:12 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

I wonder if you would have said that if Soward had played a stormer on Saturday and guided you to Wembley in doing so. Suddenly London are in a cup final which will be played on their doorstep, surely a massive opportunity to pick up a load of new fans. Even if that didn't happen, he's still bound to have put a few bums on seats by playing for you in the league games, if not you need to let people in London know he's there!

It might not sound like a balanced trade off, £40k for a few new fans, but I wonder how much the average fan is worth to the club over a lifetime. I bet I spend at least £350 a season on Wigan between my season ticket, replica shirt, beer/food, home play offs and home cup games. Not to mention revenue from away games, finals and regular games than I bring friends to. Times that by the 12 years I have been watching Wigan, then add on the 50 or so years I'll continue to watch them, then consider I'm only one person out of thousands, and marquee players don't look like such a bad idea after all. I bet he more than pays for himself if he only brings in two new lifelong fans

I've no problem with Soward's signing, OK so he was pretty anonymous on Saturday but then without ball in hand he's going to be isn't he? Apart from Dixon when he's been fit, Soward's been the ONLY player in a Broncos shirt who's really had me up on my feet cheering this season and I include Gower in that statement! His performances since his arrival have been more or less the only light relief in a dire season.

Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:56 pm  

Rob from Erith wrote:

I've no problem with Soward's signing, OK so he was pretty anonymous on Saturday but then without ball in hand he's going to be isn't he? Apart from Dixon when he's been fit, Soward's been the ONLY player in a Broncos shirt who's really had me up on my feet cheering this season and I include Gower in that statement! His performances since his arrival have been more or less the only light relief in a dire season.

Bingo, at the end of the day we don't pay to win the Grand Final or the Challenge Cup, otherwise we would almost always be disappointed. We pay to be entertained, and Soward generally delivers that. You could have stuck Jonathan Thurston in the London side on Saturday and even he wouldn't have looked that good.

Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:42 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

I wonder if you would have said that if Soward had played a stormer on Saturday and guided you to Wembley in doing so.

On his own? Chances of London beating Wigan, Warrington or Hull with or without Soward - about 0.04 I'd say.

he's still bound to have put a few bums on seats by playing for you in the league games,

Extra bums on seats?

if not you need to let people in London know he's there!

That was my point.

It might not sound like a balanced trade off, £40k for a few new fans,

Which new fans?

Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:22 pm  

40K trust me its a lot more than that Danny Orr was on a hell of a lot more than that when he was at the club.
The RFL would probably let the club sink if they could hide it under other news!!!
Sadly I think that's the fact at the moment.
What we have to do is perform next year!!! we need to finish mid table at least and that throws the challenge down to the RFL and SL
Can it happen? god only knows.
Spending to the salary cap, if we did it this year then there are some overpaid players, Clubb is leaving for that reason.

Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:50 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

40K trust me its a lot more than that Danny Orr was on a hell of a lot more than that when he was at the club.

The 40K guess was based on 120K pro-rata.

Re: The Most important Club in Superleague !!?? : Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:15 pm  

ahhh in that case yr probably pretty close