stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:18 pm  

Great win yesterday and a great turnout from our "friends" in Leeds.
However, the Trinity support although great, is still well down on last season and prior to that.

For those who'd had enough of Chester and stopped going, what will it take for you to come back.
Certainly the 4 games under Poaching have been a breath of fresh air and some decent games.

The wins against Wire, KR and Leeds are worthy of some more support.

Come on Trin fans, let's be having you !

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:48 pm  

I think it's expensive at £25 a ticket and no junior tickets on line.
Its a bit too late to be thinking of offers with only one home game left, but the club should consider a number of offers for next season.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:52 pm  

lampyboy wrote:

I think it's expensive at £25 a ticket and no junior tickets on line.
Its a bit too late to be thinking of offers with only one home game left, but the club should consider a number of offers for next season.

Yes, I suppose everything now has to be towards next season.
Have to say ,I didn't know that you cant buy junior tickets on line. Certainly something that needs looking at.
The £25 is a tough high but with all that's been going on, it's just great to have some quality live sport to watch.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:13 pm  

I think the officiating and constant rule changes have had a big effect. Six again needs to gonASAP.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:19 pm  

Willzay wrote:

I think the officiating and constant rule changes have had a big effect. Six again needs to gonASAP.

This. The reason fans are staying away is nothing to do (majority) with Chester and never was. It’s 2 reasons:

1. Pandemic wiped the habit off people’s agenda for 16 months. In which people were forced to find other things to spend £100-300 a month on. People have simply found other things to do and fallen out of the habit.

2. Rule changes six again, scrap scrum and strip. All brought in to speed up but it makes the game messy and highly difficult to enforce for officials consistently. It’s boring and autonomous. Drained most off the cuff play/set loves away.

Getting fans back will be a slog.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:27 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

This. The reason fans are staying away is nothing to do (majority) with Chester and never was. It’s 2 reasons:

1. Pandemic wiped the habit off people’s agenda for 16 months. In which people were forced to find other things to spend £100-300 a month on. People have simply found other things to do and fallen out of the habit.

2. Rule changes six again, scrap scrum and strip. All brought in to speed up but it makes the game messy and highly difficult to enforce for officials consistently. It’s boring and autonomous. Drained most off the cuff play/set loves away.

Getting fans back will be a slog.

I agree.
RL seems to have an older support base compared to many other sports and it's very easy to get out of the habit.

The question is for those who have stopped coming, what would make you want to start again ?

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:34 pm  

I think the basic problem now is fear of Covid because all we have heard for over 12 months are details of the number of deaths and those contracting the illness. With many of the Wakefield support I would guess being over 40 they have had to endure nothing but warnings about the impact and how it is best to social distance coupled with the further complications of mingling with the unvaccinated.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:44 pm  

A winning run will definitely help.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:01 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I think the basic problem now is fear of Covid because all we have heard for over 12 months are details of the number of deaths and those contracting the illness. With many of the Wakefield support I would guess being over 40 they have had to endure nothing but warnings about the impact and how it is best to social distance coupled with the further complications of mingling with the unvaccinated.

No question that many, many folk are nervous about getting out and about again but, in terms of dropping crowd numbers, football and the recent 100 cricket dont seem to be as affected as RL.
Maybe this is partly because we are almost at the end of the season and people have got used to doing other things, plus, the ever changing days that the games are played doesn't help.

However, if we had the proverbial magic wand, what would get people back for the Hull game and then to return next season ?

I know that as fans, we've really had to endure some rubbish on the field and our numbers were already on the slide prior to covid but, a new era, new coach and some positive results and who knows, maybe something happening with the ground , there ARE reasons to be positive about the future.

Re: stay away fans ? : Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:09 pm  

lampyboy wrote:

I think it's expensive at £25 a ticket and no junior tickets on line.
Its a bit too late to be thinking of offers with only one home game left, but the club should consider a number of offers for next season.

They nearly lost out on me and my son coming yesterday. He doesn't normally come but asked if he could and then I couldn't buy tickets online. Only adults and concessions online.
Fortunately I found out that I could buy a junior ticket on the day so we both came, but it nearly cost them my attendance. I'm guessing there are/were other people in the same boat