But did Widnes and Oldham not think to drip feed people into the game.
With the free ticket is a stub to be ripped off that entitles 2 adults for the price of 1 v AN Other unattractive fixture



Just handing free tickets only achieves small results, the work really starts by having a plan of why you are handing them out and what you really want to achieve, unfortuantly in RL the championship clubs are going for the "I don't want my stadia to look empty" look (which is fair enough if you want too look better than average on a minority TV channel) rather than thinking 'right we've done the hard part we've got potential investors in our club at the ground, what else can we do to get them back until they are hooked'.

For every Sky game in the Championship & Championship 1 there is money from the RFL, which is for the provision of free family tickets, and prematch/halftime entertainment. Presuming that the numbers are the same as for our league, that's 200 family tickets, which equates to 800 people.

Even without those 800, tonight's game would still have been a decent gate, so full credit to York & Oldham fans who turned out, but when sky are in town, RFL pull out all the stops to try and make it seem that the games have better attendances than in fact they would have got, had the game not been televised.

Do they ? , what exactly do they do ?

They throw money at it.

At what ?

was a great game to watch sounded good to....unlike the morgue lsv...
good to see attacking rugby...were you watching leigh players?????

Free tickets for sky games.

That's the Co-oP , not SKY

The Co-oP sponsorship is linked directly to the televised matches , no TV match at your ground , no Competition sponsors money for you

are the two not directly linked though, no TV game no money, no money no TV game?

I'd be a lot happier if every club was featured at least once though Fred

All the clubs play in the Co-oPerative Championships , surely all clubs should benifit [ if of course they do from that sponsorship

Yes you're right, I should've said that the money comes via the RFL. But it's all for the benefit of the TV cameras.

Smashing

Oi go and find your own annoying word

Typical , those Mutant fans were right , you are turning into a thieving scouser

Hey, come 'ed.

Chaaaaalm down yer no mark

It was a good crowd even with giving away free tickets and it sounded a good atmosphere, well done to both sets of fans.

A stadium at around 80 % full will always sound fairly good

Having said that it is pretty impressive to get any stadium to that level

So well done and secondly , how did you do it ?

not the case at all


even in seasons when struggling, they still averaged around 1000


green eyed jealous monster methinks.......

hope the powers that be at our club were watching, and think twice about signing the chuckle brothers

too slow, take the wrong options, and lack ideas

The transformation is complete.

Absolutely smashing to see.

Early indications show that Andy and his family refused to leave the ground and he has signed for York for next season providing this is done for every home game

York is a city so 1000 is still a poor attendance per head of population ratio

please explain the green eyed etc... when so many tickets were actually GIVEN away for free?

I really couldn't care TBH so how can one be jealous?

Dont know how they did it even with giving away free tickets wish we could get our ground 80% full though.

Perhaps the new club has sustained a solid hardcore of 900, but the old one had some dreadful crowds before it went bang. I remember twice when Leigh played there to crowds not much above 400.

Maybe , just maybe we should ' ask ' them

I do know this is . whats the term ' thinking outside the box ' but a simple phone call would seem to me to be the action required

Unfortunatley clubs dont seem able to bring themselves to actually talk to each other for the common good

You are right mate lets hope clubs do learn to talk to each other for the common cause.