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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:44 pm  
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Don't let them sell anything for mine. Separate the 2 concepts entirely. A quick look around any given section of the East Stand on match days shows that we have a real issue with the average age of our supporter base. A venue where there is a bit of music and things like the trailer bar, maybe pop up food vendors etc gives the kind of vibe that may start to appeal to the vast majority who stay away from the stadium for their pre/post match drinking and socialising - myself included. Keep the SS Bar for folk who want to run raffles and try and complete selfie bingo with the entire squad. It's fine to acknowledge that the Riversiders contribute something in their own way but at the same time the format they seem to bring to everything they get involved with, certainly to myself and it would appear to several others on this thread is cheesy and dated and much more suited to the 60+ age bracket.


do the riversiders not run maxs club also? the best concept of all SL clubs by a mile for any young fans for home and away fans
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:46 pm  
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Don't let them sell anything for mine. Separate the 2 concepts entirely. A quick look around any given section of the East Stand on match days shows that we have a real issue with the average age of our supporter base. A venue where there is a bit of music and things like the trailer bar, maybe pop up food vendors etc gives the kind of vibe that may start to appeal to the vast majority who stay away from the stadium for their pre/post match drinking and socialising - myself included. Keep the SS Bar for folk who want to run raffles and try and complete selfie bingo with the entire squad. It's fine to acknowledge that the Riversiders contribute something in their own way but at the same time the format they seem to bring to everything they get involved with, certainly to myself and it would appear to several others on this thread is cheesy and dated and much more suited to the 60+ age bracket.

+1 don't let them kill this off, it could be good!
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:57 pm  
Isn't the bar doing well? From the social media I've seen it always seems to be packed with all that money going into the club which, unless I'm missing something, is the whole point of the exercise. To those advocating it being aimed at the 18-35 age group; how many do you think it would be attracting if they did this? Again from what I can see this is not a major demographic that goes to matches. And before anyone suggests it, putting a pre-match bar on is not going to suddenly attract too many more (if any) to start going to games when they clearly can't be bothered.
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:59 pm  
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+1 don't let them kill this off, it could be good!


BUT The Riversiders raffles contribute thousands of pounds to the club each year, hundreds of thousands over the years If the majority of fans go to the fan zone then selling those tickets in the South Stand Bar isn't going to generate the same revenue for the club which is something IL will not want.
I'd like to see a different guest each week, and also a fans forum in there with different players, referees, staff etc maybe once every couple of months.
The venue itself reminds me of the Long Bar at Harlequins and is something that should be developed.
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:42 pm  
The raffles don't bother me, as RG says they make thousands for the club. The players appearing in the bar can be a great insight into things if the right questions are asked and not the nonsense we currently get. Just a few pearls of wisdom that spring to mind are after just losing an unbeaten home record that lasted over two years "at least we've got that monkey off our backs" and having just lost two semi finals rather embarrassingly to surrender our title "lets forget the last two weeks"

The riversiders have monthly meetings with players so use them for the poop questions and blaming the referee for every loss and use these visits for decent material. As for Andy Gregory, there is only so many times you can hear his stories bring in a different legend each week.
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:46 pm  
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Isn't the bar doing well? From the social media I've seen it always seems to be packed with all that money going into the club which, unless I'm missing something, is the whole point of the exercise. To those advocating it being aimed at the 18-35 age group; how many do you think it would be attracting if they did this? Again from what I can see this is not a major demographic that goes to matches. And before anyone suggests it, putting a pre-match bar on is not going to suddenly attract too many more (if any) to start going to games when they clearly can't be bothered.


Exactly, it’s a bar that needs to be all inclusive (not like that, even though it would be nice :D ) and not start saying x group can’t come in. I’d like to see them get the Wigan fan tv lad (Sean is it?) to take over the interviews or get the guy who commentates for the club to do it and as pointed out get different guests in each week. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Riversiders fund raising or having a couple of tables reserved IMO but maybe I’m missing something. I don’t even know which people are the Riversiders tbh, so they’ve obviously never bugged me.

In terms of feedback and things to improve on, I think it’s the logistical thing like the sound system, the food and drink options etc that should be a priority firstly.
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:08 pm  
All inclusive... there's an option that needs exploring! :D
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:29 pm  
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All inclusive... there's an option that needs exploring! :D


What we thinking, 2 hours before kick off for £20?! :D

Be rolling people over to the Stadium.
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:13 am  
Once did 20 pints in 2 hours at a larger roadshow in Bradford so that could work. Not sure how much of the match I'd see after that though... :D
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Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Thu Feb 27, 2020 7:29 am  
JTB wrote:
Don't let them sell anything for mine. Separate the 2 concepts entirely. A quick look around any given section of the East Stand on match days shows that we have a real issue with the average age of our supporter base. A venue where there is a bit of music and things like the trailer bar, maybe pop up food vendors etc gives the kind of vibe that may start to appeal to the vast majority who stay away from the stadium for their pre/post match drinking and socialising - myself included. Keep the SS Bar for folk who want to run raffles and try and complete selfie bingo with the entire squad. It's fine to acknowledge that the Riversiders contribute something in their own way but at the same time the format they seem to bring to everything they get involved with, certainly to myself and it would appear to several others on this thread is cheesy and dated and much more suited to the 60+ age bracket.


Nothing wrong with the age of our supporter base and indeed the game as Rugby League crowds have a good cross section of supporters from all ages and from both sexes compared to football crowds which are mainly made up of the male sex.
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