Seen as we're all on a short working week i thought i'd start this off early!

can't wait till Friday after how well the boys played vs Sheffield!

i can see Keighley testing us if the show up. they have put together a strong squad and have already had some decent results this year.

If we are on our top game i cant see past 3 points for Fax though!

im going -

Fax - 38

Cougars - 14

mom - Thackery

att - 2054

It'll be a tough one, no doubt about that:

Fax - 28

Keighley - 20

MOM - Fieldhouse

ATT - 2200 - Friday night but hopefully Keighley will bring a few...

Fax 42 Keighley 14. m.o.m Handforth.
attendance 2301.

Fax - 24

Cougars - 10

MOM - Ashall

Att - 2,273

the crowd could go either way..

we might struggle because people are away for easter. but then again i know afew coming that wouldnt normally because its a fri night and chance for rugby and afew jars. Am confident of 2000.

Keighley should bring afew with thier hopes this year.

Fax 32-16 Cougars
MOM Thackeray and Danny Jones
2125

I'll be reasonably happy to settle for a bonus point at one of the best teams in the division. I can't wait to get down there.

Our defence has looked pretty solid in the last few games so i'll say it'll be a pretty tight low scoring game.

Fax 14 Keighley 12

Fax - 26

Keighley - 14

MOM - Fieldhouse

ATT - 2160

Fax 34v14 Keighley. Att:-2,222.

fax will win by 20+

Keighley will match us up to the 1 hr mark after which our extra class and strength in depth will tell.

Fax 26 - 14 Keighley

MOM - Dane "the machine" Manning
Att: 2,021

guys we're playing the team thats currently third in the league, coming off the back of a great win at sheffield but all your crowd forecasts are around 2000. What do we have to do to attract a large crowd? its a big game at home on a holiday weekend, not on tv. . .

as i said on another thread given the problems at odsal following those similar ones at other super league clubs who were "vetted" and received licences from the rfl, only to be found out later to have told a few "fairy tales" in their applications means that now(this Friday) would be the perfect opportunity to register a record crowd at the shay

it would mean some red faces at you know where, would be even redder and I for one woud love to be able to say "we told you so!" So if you are wondering whether or not to come, please come and better yet bring a mate or better yet bring loads of mates. . . . . preferably all in blue and white

it would be a big statement particularly this weekend

hope to see loads of you there

Mike R

I think everyone on here reading your post will be going, and would try and bring a friend if they can. I hope the club are doing their bit as well. Is the game being promoted at all?

My Mum and stepdad are coming along who do not normally come however my Dad, Bother and Eddie will still be in Sri Lanka who normally do come. As for the game itself this one will be very tough

Fax 32
Cougars 18

Man of the match Penky (and he will score his 100th try)

att 6,780 (Happy Mike?)

Exactly. It's ok asking people on here to get down but we already will be. If we want a massive uplift in crowd figures then the club needs to start being visible in the community and actively market the games. We can't just sit and hope that people will come flooding back.

Halifax 32-22 Keighley
Att: 2,210

Bulls have probably been one of the best teams or markEting over the last few years from cut price season tickets that many on here thought wAS a good idea, apparantly NOW theres ticket for their easter game against Leeds on E Bay for £5, they've towed mobile advertising around Bradford Theyve had some of the best pre match entertainment (often better than what followed!) And theyre still BUST

as a club we decided to work within the money we have and not to speculate in the hope that spending lots of money will automatically bring in crowds

What we have tried are things such as . Frank has been into just about every school in Calderdale giving away Mascot packages and free kids tickets, Halicat is at some event or other just about evey week targeting youngsters, we've tried advertising in the local paper, we have a mobile application for those fans who can be bothered to down load it, we let armed forces in free, we send out thousands of e mails to our mailing lists before every home game courtesy of the Clubs main Sponsor Reactiv Media group, players attend local events gyms etc, we put up posters in just about every pub in the town centre, we have a regular spot on the local radio station, all this effort but still working within what we have and we're NOT Bust.


what else might we do to attract more supporters perhaps a better web site some people have said " or lets have more "free " tickets we believe possibly falsely that by investing in Karl and the players that he wanted we would build a team that might even top the table and that might persuade some former and possibly new supporters to come along to games

after all we lost a load of support the year we lost just about very game in SL.so perhaps a winning team might be the best advertising of all?

And after all the easiest way to double our attendances wold be for all those who come along to games to bring one friend, family member, colleague etc

and that way we'd have more money to invest in further promotional activities without jepoardising the financial structure of our club

Mike R Sorry for the rant But I do feel a lot better now!!!!

wow, relaxing holiday was it mike?

This is only simple but; I always thought inviting people to events/games on Facebook was a good idea (not sure why it stopped), it just seemed like a simple way of making people aware of what was going on and when. Also another thing that could possibly draw some interest is putting the match photos and maybe some highlights/tries on the Facebook page. It just gets people looking and interested. The recent activity on Facebook has been brilliant, but with over 4,000 fans on Fax's Facebook I think it's an area that really needs to be exploited, even if it attracted just one new fan it would surely be worth it?

Up the Fax!

These damned "speculative" finances of our club as opposed to the "real" ones in super league, eh Mike?

How dare you do such a good job running a club within its means. There'll be no reward for that my man!

Keep up all the good work, us fax fans appreciate every second you give!

im sure everone on here is wax lyrical about Fax, i for one neer shut up about it at work....but it is difficult to drag people kicking and screaming.

i agree if we have 4000 people on FB we should be hitting them 1st....

.....we need to find out on there who comes to games and who doesnt, a poll maybe?

also i seem to remember a voucher in the courier for kids for a £1, that used to go down well i think?

Dont worry Mike if the team carries on where they left off vs Sheffield, and continues to imrove we will attract some back. the way i see it, we need an average of 3000 plus in our league to be taken seriously. atm were nowhere near.

Hear, Hear !!!
And to all the rest of the office staff too.

Great letter in the League Express this week from Myton Warriors, well done to all.

part of our sponsorship arrangement with the Courier which is very valuable to us, is that they get to show our tries on their web site there has been a slight hiccup with facebook as our mr fax was unavaiable for a few weeks but i understand that he is now posting both on facebook and twitter?

we do have a vacancy around youtube videos so if theres someone out there who fances helping out with this (but remember just like Hotel California "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!"icon_wink.gif ring me at the Club late this week
cheers
mike R

here's one idea;
Along with the many cheerleaders (good idea btw)
Junior rugby curtain raisers.... get as many local juniors playing before the big game, u8,9,10,11,12, the lot.

They will bring parents, friends and most will stay for the big game.

I reckon 80-90% of kids playing jnr RL don't go to a senior game due to lack of interest or parent interest, play some at the Shay and they'll get hooked



might even be self financing as well