Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:57 pm  

To gain good publicity why did the club not give say 10 free season tickets to the NHS front line staff. How much would this actually cost them to do this but no their preferred choice is to allow a supporter to buy and donate a season ticket.

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 4:11 am  

Get back into the schools in the district, get a presence back into where the very future of the club lies .The school I work at used to have players down doing training drills with the kids ,not seen batchelor down here for a few years now ,even though the kids lapped it up .Remember the match days when kids who got free tickets would bring their parents down to a game. Make it a fun day and give those kids/parents a good time and great entertainment on the park and you’ve got a winning recipe .Drag the kids down to a dreary dilapidated belle vue to watch another boring loss and the appetite soon dwindles .For me it’s a double edged sword ,make it fun and entertaining before the game and then have the team firing on all cylinders and you have a winning recipe. Fifita/Johnstone are loved by the kids that go regular ,I see no reason if we can get them playing at his best that we can’t build on that with a bit of marketing and more fan/player interaction.

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:19 am  

I’m reading these suggestions with disbelief but sadly no surprise.

I don't wish to rubbish anybody, I know most people mean well but here as in most places, it’s as if Covid never happened. Well, it did, still is and will be for years to come.

So, even putting aside how dire the club's finances must currently be, the even bigger question is how the heck the club is meant to implement any of these ideas. Those that it can I suspect it already has.

How many of the club's staff are on furlough for a start? I’m guessing all but the most essential?

With nearly all Covid restriction still in place, how can most of these ideas even take place?

At the moment you can’t get into the schools that’s for sure. It may not be far off but not yet.

Ditto almost any other hands-on promo you can think of.

As for marketing, marketing what exactly? No match days for a start, no business lunches, I mean do I need to spell it out?

Nobody was complaining about the club's off-field efforts pre-Covid, quite the opposite. The ability and the desire is there its the ability to implement that is currently missing.

Clubs like Leeds with better facilities have more options but not many, all live entertainment businesses are stuffed and that’s what we are!

Open your eyes folks, Trinity are fortunate to be here at all! We could and should have gone under.

It will take a generation to recover from Covid and the worst is yet to come. Boris has created a fantasy future to convince you all to stay calm but he like me never expected people the really believe it. There is a huge debt to pay and the carnage has hardly begun. in my opinion.

Trinity will survive by prudence and genuine solidarity. It won’t achieve anything in my opinion, others may differ, with cheap stunts like giving tickets away to NHS staff, all of whom have remained in work. All for a season that much of which will remain hugely restricted. If your going to give anything away then at least be imaginative, maybe free match tickets (when matches are available) to the victims of Covid, those kids who’ve lost loved ones, those who need cheering up and pampering, rather than what has now in my eyes become a cynical publicity stunt.

Anyway, I digress, for now, let’s just concentrate on paying the bills and leave speculating to a time when it’s prudent to do so. If we just do that then at some point Trinity will be in a far better shape to move forward than most other clubs.

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:44 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote: To gain good publicity why did the club not give say 10 free season tickets to the NHS front line staff. How much would this actually cost them to do this but no their preferred choice is to allow a supporter to buy and donate a season ticket. The Club gave away 6 season tickets as a gesture of goodwill to frontline key workers on the back of that one donation, but never let a good opportunity crop up to stick the knife in https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2021/ ... -williams/

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote: To gain good publicity why did the club not give say 10 free season tickets to the NHS front line staff. How much would this actually cost them to do this but no their preferred choice is to allow a supporter to buy and donate a season ticket. The Club gave away 6 season tickets as a gesture of goodwill to frontline key workers on the back of that one donation, but never let a good opportunity crop up to stick the knife in https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2021/ ... -williams/

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:37 pm  

Jose wrote: The Club gave away 6 season tickets as a gesture of goodwill to frontline key workers on the back of that one donation, but never let a good opportunity crop up to stick the knife in https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2021/ ... -williams/ At the time that was a great gesture, the time now has gone. Well remembered though

Jose wrote: The Club gave away 6 season tickets as a gesture of goodwill to frontline key workers on the back of that one donation, but never let a good opportunity crop up to stick the knife in https://wakefieldtrinity.com/blog/2021/ ... -williams/ At the time that was a great gesture, the time now has gone. Well remembered though

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:23 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

Get back into the schools in the district, get a presence back into where the very future of the club lies .The school I work at used to have players down doing training drills with the kids ,not seen batchelor down here for a few years now ,even though the kids lapped it up .Remember the match days when kids who got free tickets would bring their parents down to a game. Make it a fun day and give those kids/parents a good time and great entertainment on the park and you’ve got a winning recipe .Drag the kids down to a dreary dilapidated belle vue to watch another boring loss and the appetite soon dwindles .For me it’s a double edged sword ,make it fun and entertaining before the game and then have the team firing on all cylinders and you have a winning recipe. Fifita/Johnstone are loved by the kids that go regular ,I see no reason if we can get them playing at his best that we can’t build on that with a bit of marketing and more fan/player interaction.

The club is involved in schools via the Wakefield Trinity Foundation, I know they have a strong relationship with the Outwood Grange Academy.

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:58 pm  

Wakefield City wrote:

The club is involved in schools via the Wakefield Trinity Foundation, I know they have a strong relationship with the Outwood Grange Academy.

Correct, just a bit tricky to implement at the moment with furloughed staff and schools closed for much of the time and still restricted at a guess.

The club does a great job with limited resources.

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:29 pm  

vastman wrote:

At the time that was a great gesture, the time now has gone. Well remembered though

It was only 7 weeks ago! presumably Scarlet doesn't bother doing his homework and will come back with another deeply cutting remark! Anyone recall where Agent X111 went????

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:34 pm  

vastman wrote:

Correct, just a bit tricky to implement at the moment with furloughed staff and schools closed for much of the time and still restricted at a guess.

The club does a great job with limited resources.

The foundation is fully up and running with no one furloughed at the moment, they are in fact advertising for more staff as they have work coming out of their ears, they deliver PE and ups killing of PE teachers in school through both trinity and SCS also after school and lunchtime sessions are now back to being delivered, so it’s almost back to normal in that respect, the only thing lacking at the moment is a presence in community clubs, but that will start after 29th and when the season actually starts
This is one thing that trinity are good at (there are plenty of others)

Re: Are Trinity becoming irrelevant? : Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:53 pm  

I think you are in a minority knowing that a further six season tickets were given away, so it could be argued that it was an opportunity missed to push the club within the community. I did say it was a good idea which obviously it was just badly advertised.