Re: Gillingham again! : Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:46 pm  

5 of us have been st holders for 12 years if we end up at the gills it will be the end for us the o s yes the gills no

Re: Gillingham again! : Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:16 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

I blame the prison warder!

Shut it Godber

5,000 attendance, regardless of the number of freebies and kids, will be enough to convince the club that a move to Kent is the way forward...and as Listy has already said, they will be on 2k averages within 12 months there, because they'll just roll up, stick posts in the ground and expect the fans to flock to them.

In reality, the few thousand expat northerners the club currently get at the Stoop over the season will not be interested in travelling to Kent, about 50% of the ST Base will cease to go and the club will be 100% reliant on freebies and offers to the local residents of a town, which relies heavily on a business park on the outskirts and retail to generate revenue and Jobs.

BTW, an off peak return is about £17........£20 if you want the hast train option add that to your £20 ticket and a few beers and the 1hr 10 minutes each way from London and your matchday experience will be about £50 and last 6 hours.....there's VFM for you...especially if you want to bring Kids with you.

Bottom line is it's Mr Hughes Club and he has employed the CEO who is driving us down this route......as much as I'll moan, have a pop or the occasional dig, nothing is going to stop the club being run as badly as it currently is......enjoy 2013 at the Stoop guys and Girls.....I suspect The Skolars might just pick up a few hundred fans in 2014.

Re: Gillingham again! : Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:36 pm  

For me with a railcard it's £20.25 off peak day return to gillingham, or £9.25 for an all zone travel card which I can continue using if I want to go out in London that evening.

If I work that out right it's about double the travelling costs. In fact I have been oop north for cheaper than the fare to gillingham.

Regardless of any other facts about the club which I didn't mention, going to
Gillingham costs more money than going to a ground in central london therefore my preference would have been a London ground.

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:46 am  

The delicious Irony is the person who opted to rename us the LONDON Broncos was inside 8 months trying to move us out of London.

November 1st 2011.

"This relaunch provides us with a unique opportunity to target a new audience and raise awareness. We're committed to making Super League a success story in London."

Mid August 2012 he was trying to move us out of London......

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:30 am  

Well i'm a Wire fan and have been an enthusiastic supporter of rugby in London but won't be going to this game, not because i'm sulking or stamping my feet but just because i disagree with this in principle.

On the road in London i get, London is a huge place though (600+ square miles) and yet they can't find about 7000 sq metres of land in that area?

The Stoop to Gillingham is around 50 miles, so if you asked a Warrington fan or Warrington's marketing department to play a HOME game 50 miles away to improve attendance in the future at the HJ they'd think you mad.

Warrington playing a home game in Batley to the East, Lancaster in the North, Stafford in the South or Rhyl to the West, it's daft, it wouldn't work and it's a waste of time and effort.

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:48 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Well i'm a Wire fan and have been an enthusiastic supporter of rugby in London but won't be going to this game, not because i'm sulking or stamping my feet but just because i disagree with this in principle.

On the road in London i get, London is a huge place though (600+ square miles) and yet they can't find about 7000 sq metres of land in that area?

The Stoop to Gillingham is around 50 miles, so if you asked a Warrington fan or Warrington's marketing department to play a HOME game 50 miles away to improve attendance in the future at the HJ they'd think you mad.

Warrington playing a home game in Batley to the East, Lancaster in the North, Stafford in the South or Rhyl to the West, it's daft, it wouldn't work and it's a waste of time and effort.

problem is, it's not about raising awareness of the game in London or even the south east...it's now about trying to justify a move to Gillingham permanently in the misguided belief that 5k there for a 1 off will be replicated 13 times in 2014.....it won't.

They got 3,900 last year, with a great many of those freebies or association with the medway stampede event........the average for 2012 was 2,800......the 1,100 above average was mainly medway kids........they won't come back when it's a tenner with a ticket for dad a score.......but by the time the club realise this, it will be too late......

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:43 am  

3,386 is the average for Wire back at the stoop over 7 years...last years crowd was the worst ever in 17 seasons and 19 visits BTW...where the average is 3,649.

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:23 am  

I went last year as my girl was playing in the Dragons' festival. I'll probably go this year as I know a lad in Gillingham who expressed interest in going along although I'm tempted not to - dont want to encourage them to move there. As we all agree it'd be utter madness and would kill off a fair amount of you loyal long serving fans from going. I'm certainly not in that category but I did get to 8 games last season, if they go to Gillingham I suspect the only time I'd see them is for the Magic Weekend

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:21 pm  

This thread sums up the club. The game is being played in a venue that no one wants to go to.

Re: Gillingham again! : Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:05 pm  

90 miles each way from MK, including some of the worst sections of motorway in the country. Forget it, id just watch hemel, oxford or skolars. Or go up north.