Wire are absolutely tone deaf sometimes. Lost 5 on the bounce and now they think it's a good time to ask members if they fancy paying £40 extra per match to watch us in the "40/20" lounge. I imagine the uptake on this is going to be extremely low.

I think they have heard the message all right. These things have to continue. Do you want them to stop playing music, selling pies or beer? Just the sort of time to stand up and support the club.
It is not compulsory.

I get what you're saying, but surely it's better for the club to wait until we've at least won a game to try and convince fans into into it. Serving up the quality of rugby that we've been subjected to recently and then offering us the chance to pay more to see it just leaves a bit of a sour taste in my opinion.
I certainly wont be stopping attending games, buying beer or food when in the stadium; I just think the timing of that email could've been a lot better.

The marketing and hospitality team aren't the ones that are dropping balls and missing tackles.

Do you want every department of the club to stop running until we win a game?

No stewards, no turnstile folk...

Exactly ... the show must go on and you have to advertise as normal.

No obviously not, as they're a necessity for the games to take place at home
Maybe everyone disagrees, which is fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Personally, I think that it's the wrong time to be sending that kind of email out to fans, particularly as the club themselves are admitting that results and performances are disappointing. From a marketing perspective, you ride the crest of a wave (Whizzy Rascal on Sky) and capitalise on it. Riding a wave, we are certainly not right now. Although, I for one, am certainly hoping that a week off now will change that.

Sack cloth and ashes is the correct response, with a day in the stocks for every player until we win a match

By George, I think he's got it

Can you close the curtains in the 40/20 lounge? Might be worth the £40.

Why is there a picture of table tennis equipment at the top of the page?

It's Powell's new disciplinary idea to give everyone a paddlin' when they make an error.

Do you mean The Stocks in Padgate for a bit of team bonding, BTW I'm an out of towner is it still there?

They have a ping pong table in the lounge, along with a pool table and an F1 simulator I believe haha

Christ if that's true I'm tempted to give that a go.

Thank you for posting this here, I didnt get this email.

The club is running at a loss, out of a money spinning trip to Wembley and 2 seasons of C19.
Are you suggesting we turn our club that is struggling on and off the field, into one of continuing battles because of a down turn in form this season?

Good on the club, however I won’t be taking up the offer, not because it many not be a good offer, or because as you angle, that they don’t deserve it, but simply because I can’t afford it.

I’d guess a lot of this sorta stuff is aimed at local businesses who’d treat staff for a night out rather than the normal week in week out fan?

If it's a free pool table then at least I could get my moneys worth out of that and not have to watch the game.

aimed at anyone that wants to spend money

bit of a history lesson, back at our previous home, wilderspool there used to be a club under the main stand call the touchdown, where a lot of ppl went for a pre match pint and a catch up, then filtering into the game.

they never replicated that here, but were aware they were losing money to the local pubs so at some point (cos the beer in the ground is overpriced and terrible), i cant remember when they tried to change part of the east stand banqueting (prawn sandwich) area into something similar, but not the same, but at a cost.

They've tried a couple of different versions now, this being the latest one, i dont know if its because the east stand suite isn't getting the corporate numbers anymore and they're trying something different .

I like the concept, £1k per year / £40 upgrade per game is a little too steep for me though! I guess it might work as a one off special occasion sort of thing, or as mentioned when put through as business entertainment.

Always thought it was a bit of a missed opportunity not utilising the extra space in the NE corner when they did the extension for a fans bar, sure they could have rejigged the entry / exit points . I guess you need to make the investment pay though and when its only being used 14 times a year may be difficult.

I think at one point they discussed having a hotel in that NE corner too.

It as been renamed as the The Station House, it’s a carvery now.

The touchdown club was open most nights..it ran a darts and pool teams even tried a DJ for Sunday nights.

There's some stocks in Grappenhall near the church.

I wonder how much a game of pool costs these days - 50p the last time I played.

And of course in Lymm village centre obviously many Cheshire miscreants back in the day

they got rid of the carvery about 6 months after they opened it.
The food is pretty decent in there though, big American style Burgers, Hotdogs & Grill etc.