Hell fire! I was just on another forum reading about how poor our gates are but we are top, at the same time as watching Saints v Wigan and Stevo and Eddie are still talking about the size of our crowds.
J**us H. Ch**st!! We aren't even playing and they're moaning about our crowd. 'get down to the stadium and watch the Giants' says Eddie. Who the hell from Hudds watching Saints and Wigan does he think isn't already going to games? People who can't be bothered watching rugby in Huddersfield are hardly gonna be bothered watching two other teams on TV.

You would be surprised bet a few pubs in town have it on and the more we hammer home we are a team to watch the better

just said the same on the other topic old boy.

Well it's obviously not working is it because they bring the subject up every game but the crowds aren't increasing?

wish I could afford to get to town on a Monday night ( ok er Indoors might have a few words to say on that as well lol)

Sorry. If I'd looked at the other posts I'd have seen yours too. Suppose if we do ever win anything and the crowds go up they'll be able to slag off all the band wagon jumpers then.

They can`t but WE could .

I'm glad you said 'could' because if we did win a trophy and we got 15000 each week I'd be chuffed to bits. Wagon jumpers or not.

If Eddie & Stevo put their heads together they still couldn't make a decent halfwit.

Fokk 'em.

I think eddie actually said something about the Huddersfield fans getting down to watch us,

err eddie, we do, the 5,000 that go are the Huddersfield fans, yes its true and its boring now but as we have all said what more can we actually do to get people interested in us?
I still feel the biggest thing holding us back is the shares issue with HTFC, whether people like it or not, that is holding our crowds back, whilst there is animosity from a section of HTFC supporters towards ken davy, the people of Huddersfield wont support us.

I do find it rather ironic that the sky mob keep criticising our crowds.
apart from the people of Huddersfield's reluctance to support us, SKY SPORTS do more to harm our crowds than good.
its common knowledge about the demographics of our supporter base, an that Friday/Monday nights especially are bad for our crowds yet they schedule games for these night. I understand they have to televise so many clubs so many times, but if they really wanted our crowds to grow then they could help us out by not scheduling games that will have an adverse affect on crowds,

the Catalans game being a prime example.

Remember when Fartown played at the Shay for 3 home games so the Galph pitch could be relaid? The first game back in Hudds was Hull KR & the club did a huge advertising push for it called "The Homcoming".

Then Sky moved it & screwed all that good work & then had the nerve to chelp about the crowd being down.

There's no cure for stupidity.

And tonight they were proudly exclaiming how sky are now introducing Thursday night games - including all the playoffs!

Shut up we're all a disgrace!

Eddie said that 'Wigan want to win, they want to win the Grand National'

They say stupid stuff to fill the silent void as they don't have a clue how to commentate. I wouldn't take any notice or get yourselves worked up about it.

Don`t agree with what you said about the shares issue affecting our crowds. Over half of Town supporters come from surrounding towns, there are loads in Dewsbury, plenty from Wakefield, Ossett, Morley, Batley. And they don`t support the Giants. So those few that actually come from Huddersfield who support Town, it may matter to them somewhat, but there aren`t many of those who support the Giants also that the shares issue would cause a problem.

I think the main problem around Huddersfield is simply a case of

A)many people aren't aware we exist
B( those that do dont really have an idea how we are doing or
C) do have an idea but prefer to watch it in the pub or WMC

This is where our marketing team - if we actually have one - should be going out and making
D) there is a huge buzz around town about the Giants as people are now aware that the town has a fantastic rugby league team that are challenging for honours and are currently the top team in Europe - happen .

Daz/Meast I think we need a new chant to the tune of claret and gold.

'we are a disgrace, we are a disgrace, we Huddersfield Giants and we're a disgrace'
'we are a disgrace, we are a disgrace, so say eddie and stevo we are a disgrace'


or

'we're a disgrace cos we've less fans than you,we're a disgrace but we're louder than you, '

too much apathy towards the club, even our own are fickle

its a football town, season is starting soon again so even more interest for that, they play tomorrow night against real betis, the crowd will prob be bigger than our gate at the weekend.

we have lost a generation of fans too im afraid, will have to wait for the next

Maybe with the football season round the corner, try targetting town fans again - maybe give their ST holders a deal for the last games or something, their may be a bit more interest now than last time around due to our recent improvement ?

I realise that the anti-Ken bile will probably surface with a few but surely there will be some who fancy it - worth a try i think.

I have just now realised the hill we have to climb to get any sort of half decent gates.
My son, the product of my loins, has just bought a Season ticket for Town!

His Granddad will be spinning in his grave.

When I have calmed down I will ask him why, in the meantime he's out of the will.

Just another example of poor parenting it seems

Keefie- you have failed him, you have failed the giants and you have failed yourself. Look it's not too late you can still redeem yourself!

I have tried, Lord knows I have tried,

I have taken his sons to matches, I have introduced him to the powers that be at the Giants, on a business level.

His 2 nephews are registered Academy players, one with the Giants, and the younger, better prospect, is with Wire.

I give up!

I think the key for you lot is for the club to capitalise on success. For instance, when the play-offs come around, what you really need, more than the gate money, is bums on seats. I think the RFL (who I believe largely control play-off ticket prices) have some responsibility here, which I'm sure they'll fail to discharge...

At Leeds we like to pretend that our crowds have been huge for as long as we can remember. This is, of course, not true, nad I can certainly remember times when crowds of 6-8k were pretty commonplace at Headingley.

You have to get the product to sell itself. Your stadium does you know favours. Half empty stadiums kill an atmosphere pretty well, but that can't be helped.

But, if you get 15-16k in there for a play-off semi on a nice evening, and win a tense game you WILL get those people to Old Trafford, and a lot of them will come back. Success breeds success. Once crowds go up, the atmosphere improves and the matches feel more exciting, more of an event and people are more likely to part with their cash to be part of it. The trouble is, for the reciprocal of those reasons, low crowds are a tough cycle to break.

I actually think they're a symptom of the wider sport's image and PR too. You can look at the turn-out at Salford with their target population too. Leeds get good crowds, but look at the size of the pond we're fishing from. It might help therefore if other teams' fans (including, but not limited to) Leeds', stopped chelping at those of you who are turning up every week and started to think about the wider interests of the sport. If the product is hard to sell with a team playing as well as Huddersfield, there's a warning bell for other clubs that they shouldn't be too short-sighted to listen to.

Rant ends.