Found this in the Examiner:



I understand that the comments came at the end of a HGSA meeting and are in no way a reflection on club policy - next season's agenda has not yet been discussed at board level.

What do you think?

A move to Friday nights would mean I wouldn't be getting a season ticket and would hardly be able to attend any games. So it's a no from me.

Friday games would make a massive difference to my plans. Friday being a work day is irrelevant.

We travel from Derby and have missed 2 home games in 3 years be it Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun or Mon but if it became Friday as the norm I doubt we would bother and would just go and watch Crusaders as we do now when Giants don't have a game.

I hope the fact the club moved the London and Salford games to Saturday means they do not agree with these plans and realise Sunday should be the main game day as moving to Friday has done nothing for Salford who are a much better yardstick for us to judge ourselves against rather than Saints Wigan or Leeds whose fan base will turn up regardless of the day.

Count me and the five I go with out if they switch to Friday.

No interest for me for friday games. Back to sundays if i am going to attend i am afraid

Will not buy a season ticket if games move to a Friday. I work away and manage to arrange to leave early on a Friday if we are at home. But could not arrange this 13 times a season. Also I enjoy the Sunday game far more as I am not rushing.

Would go whatever but prefer Sundays. No chance to mingle with other fans at the rope walk on a Friday as we wouldn't be able to go in later with the kids. If I'm paying all that money I would prefer a "day out" rather than a rush down after work and rush back to put the tired kids to bed.

Strange yopu found it in the examminer. I am sure that i read it at the end of a report from the last HGSA meeting that you sent to me.

Should we be carfeul about gifts that the greeks leave for us ?

Just to point out as well that my reference to Friday being irrelevant is in reference to point 3 in the OP. Also, point 2 is utter garbage. Attendances will go down on Fridays IMO as there is a Sky game on. Put a cloud in the sky or a chill in the air and there will be a significant portion that will stay in the armchair.

Would kill it for me too, I travel from Manchester, and if I'm not working from home, week games are nigh on impossible. My folks are clocking on now too, so they wouldn't bother with Fridays. It'd going to take all my effort to stop my one year old being city or utd rather than a giants fan, don't make it any harder for me, lol!

Fridays would not be good for us either, a drive that takes about an hour on Sunday would take perhaps twice that on a Friday. we would get to as many games as we could but unlikely that would be enough to justify renewing the season tickets.

Of course if Fridays are better overall for the club then that is just tough for us, but I don't think it would be. Better atmosphere on Fridays was cited - I think that is more to do with bigger games being played on Fridays. The difference is playing Leeds or Wigan rather than lesser attractions with fewer visiting fans.

Based on no more than the evidence of my own eyes I believe we tend to get more home supporters on a Sunday afternoon.

Fridays do work for some clubs- mostly those with lots of 20 something's. A section we are lacking. Our fan base is older and families- I can't see friday being more favourable for those.

wouldnt mind fridays, but used to sundays now!

might attract a few of the 20's age bracket which is where we are lacking badly!

you found it in the examiner? thought your wrote the pieces sent into the examiner..

How would HTFC fans like the idea of us 'cutting up' the pitch on a Friday before their Saturday afternoons?

I can't go to much Sunday games but can go to all the Friday games. I suppose it will suit different people. The giants should be looking to the future and the younger generation and trying to find a solution to get the best day and time possible.

Not overly bothered, but Sunday my first choice

i don't mind friday night games purely for the social side of things but the only reason i see for moving all our games to friday is to appeal to the young big night out types, unfortunately they are very much in the minority of our fan base.

It is true that I sent this round in an e-mail. It is true that I wrote it for the Examiner. These facts don't make it any less a topic for converstaion do they?

Personally I prefer Sunday games.

All I'm doing is reporting to a wider audience a discussion which took place.

After all, this is a discussion forum.

Isn't it?

i am not going to have a go but be open about it.

If there is discussion in the club, if the club have asked the HGSA to canvass opinion, if the HGSA are wanting to raise an issue about how to inmprove attendances then fine.

Just as long as the club then think about a change in direction in marketing and plan it properly then fair enough.

It is fearly clear then that it will affect those with families and children therefore the marketing over the last 10 years needs to be binned.

Forget marketing at families and attract a different group.

Everyone knows that the new market will have to be 16 to 30 year olds,

What plans do the club have, what have they thought about to get these people to games.

Just announcing a change to Fridays with no marketing plans will be a disaster.

Tell the club to think about that before they start planning some dramatic change.

Most of us accept that the club have no alternative but to become a friday or saturday night club because SKY are forcing us to.

The situation we have now where we are a thursday , friday saturday, Sunday club is a disaster and pretty much p!sses fans off.

But for Christs sake i hope that the club do it properly.

My idea would be one free pint for the first six games ( or at least a half price voucher of some sort) for those who buy a season ticket !

That should get a bit of interest going !

It would not encourage me as i would not drink the p!ss they serve at the prices they charge.

Maybe we could all bring our own booze and they could charge for Corkage !

No club should play on a Friday unless they have an overly compelling reason, ie stadium usage, not to. All matches not on SKY should be played at the same time.

Crowd growth can't just be the individual responsibility of one club. It absolutely has to occur over the breadth of the sport. Having games spread over several days looks amateurish.

Really makes no difference to me personally, but....

Evening games seem to have a better atmosphere in general.....

...and the club needs another 4,000 supporters to turn up so we need to attract a diffrence demographic of supporters. It's obvious we are not going to get to the 10,000 level uncle ken wants if we don't change something dramatic.

nope but no need to try pull the wool over our eyes either by saying you 'spotted this in the examiner' as if you knew nothing about the article..when its your own!

back on topic, wouldnt make much difference to me friday or sunday but if the attendances go up for friday night switches i would approve

most leagues play over 2-3 days due to tv money..not just english rl....premiership, spainsh soccer, nrl, afl to name a few...a lot of teams in sl like to play fri evenings?, saints, wigan,salford,leeds ,hull fc and wire ...if all games should be played at same time then why not fri night?
the biggest crowd pullers choose to play fri night?

What on earth has what a team likes got to do with it?

They should play on the day they're told, it's not a bush league, it's supposed to be a professional sport.