I've told you exactly what happened. A group of people were talking about how the club could increase the fanbase and this was one stopic of the converstaion. Nothing more, nothing less. The club have not started talking about next season's games yet.

On that last point, that's why there are officious bag-checkers at every entrance.

Deary me!!!

I did it that way because I didn't want to be called a bragger that I write in the Examiner!

One way I'm damned. The other way I'm...


...damned.

Personally i don't mind any day but ...i think we have seen that whatever day/time/price/ etc has no effect on our crowds, they are poor and will always be poor.

We can get crowd numbers up simply by lowering ST or matchday prices but that will lose money so the club won't do that !

the only was i feel to improve on crowds is to go all out on the marketing front, obviously events on the pitch would help too, it worked for bradford and keighley, it could work for us, we need the club to push it as an event not to be missed, something that people can buy into easily ( and fairly cheaply )
i fear we missed the boat though, although i understand the need to increase ticket prices, it was just the timing was bad,in the middle of a mid season slump that we never recovered from, we should have been pushing the boat out in 2010/11 but we didn't and now we are seeing the effects.

Sundays are the best and would depend on shift swaps/ days off for constant Friday games

why would anyone call you a bragger



nevermind.

We've only had 1 Friday game so far this season and only had 1 last year. So that point is a little bit moot. Sky have televised games on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday over the past few seasons. The evidence would indicate that moving to Fridays would not significantly alter the amount of re-arranged games we are likely to have.

Plus on Fridays we would be directly up against the live SKY match every week. Leeds, Wigan and Saints may be robust enough to survive that clash but our crowds aren't that loyal in the first place. A few bad results and it will just be one more excuse for people not to turn up.

I thought that we moved to summer RL so the players would have better fields to play on and better conditions for us speccies so now it seems we will be watching our RL under floodlights.I am well aware that Sky rules the roost but I for one am getting fed up what with the interference with rule changes etc and now changing matches at their say so that I make no wonder that we cannot increase our fan base.There are a lot of fans that cannot get to Thursday and Friday matches, the more they bugger about with the rules and game schedules the more the fans will walk away and will not buy season tickets.

interestingly, saturday's crowd was the lowest v london/harlequins since 2008!
it was the first sub-5000 crowd against london in that time too ( not including the cup game in 2012)

First home match well Catalans apart any match I've missed for ages but had something booked before they changed it. Better remember to keep the stub for next years ST.

Gate is the usual 5,500 for London less people like me. More there than I expected.

Still a better crowd than Wakey even with plenty from Wigan. Dr Marwans lot would have struggled to get 2,000.

See you all at Hull KR !!

games against london havent been on a saturday in the past though

Prefer the games on a sunday tbh, gives you plenty of time to travel to and from the ground as they are on an afternoon. I would struggle getting to Friday night games consistently. Although i do enjoy the odd thursday game thrown in.

giantsrl.com/news/article/3756/l ... -have-your 8pm deadline tonight to provide feedback about moving 2015 home games to Friday nights.

giantsrl.com/news/article/3756/l ... -have-your 8pm deadline tonight to provide feedback about moving 2015 home games to Friday nights.

I didn't know about this survey, thanks for plugging it. I would be interested to see what the results are.