Agree with Starbug & Harold - I'd say it depends what you want to achieve with a fans forum - if its sharing news, promoting accessibility & involvement, and opening the club up to fans then go local and get bigger attendances - if its a PR thing or an attempt to reach new fans then go on the road and spread the net like Fred said.

My personal suggestion would be keep the forums local to keep the regular fans engaged & informed, but find another format for an event (eg meet selected players/past players etc or some kind of entertainment/fundraising event) that could easily be put on in any pub, and could be taken on the road easily enough to target new areas & attract new fans, with maybe just a quick Q&A session or newsletters from LISA and the club available at the events to try and sell what's going on - news, upcoming games, merchandising, fundraising etc.

Town centre pubs I'd target with fixture lists/posters, drip mats, beermats with pictures of new signings or star players on etc, to hopefully provide talking points in the pubs. Then the pubs who are most receptive to taking up & displaying these kinds of freebies, maybe getting a couple of players to attend their next pub event, or given a signed shirt to either hang in the pub or raffle off for a pub charity etc - all good for the pub but also good PR for the club.

I am with Fred on this one, if you are having a fans' forum to preach to the faithful then there is no point moving to anywhere near the LSV, the same people will attend.
If you want to attract new blood then hold it out of Leigh.

I think we could do both. I don't see any harm in doing a travelling fans forum and I'm sure other local clubs would welcome the chance to hold an event like this.

More importantly I think we should consider a 'Centurions Roadshow' which we could take to Atherton, Tyldesley, Hindley etc. In my opinion, this would be a lot more light hearted than a traditional Fans Forum and would include players, coach and a couple of Board Members to talk about the club. We could possibly have a quiz or similar and it would simply be a way of engaging with those further afield who perhaps (as Fred Said earlier) have been all but ignored by the Club in previous years.

Again I have to question the value of an event that is only going to attract existing fans, I dont really see how any question and answer,quiz,meet the coach/players/board roadshow will entice anybody that doesn't already attend matches

LISA has held similar events and they have in general been poorly supported even by existing fans

Similarily the fans forums only seem to attract numbers when a crisis is on the horizon

The mind set you need to use when planning events is as a non fan

Mish thats the sort of thing I meant - emphasis on a fun event sponsored by the club rather than all about centurions, just use a section of it to promote Centurions news & events or give away some family tickets or summat.

We can't expect people turn up 'just because' - but as pointed out above, I think we could attract people if we make it a fun event.

Any ideas what we could do that might not cost a fortune?

Here's my suggestion: Sponsor the fair when it's in the area.

Does the fair go to places like Tyldesley and Atherton? I ask with genuine ignorance.