With social media such a big thing today and its free for the club to use i really am disappointed with how we do in this area compared to other clubs..

but i think also it highlights the demographic of our fan base... we have alot of older generation fans who prob dont tend to get involved with the social media side of things, lost generations of fans during the bad years



below is a sorry sight

FACEBOOK AND TWITTER NUMBERS -

Leeds - 129k (FBOOK) 63k (TWITTER) 192k total
Wigan - 55k , 47k 103k
Hull Fc - 58k , 24k 82k
Saints - 39k , 34k 73k
Wire - 37k , 30k 67k
Cas - 37k , 18k 55k
Wakefield - 19k , 15k 35k
Hull KR - 14k, 18k 32k
Catalans - 21k , 8k 30k
Salford - 11k , 16k 27k
Widnes - 6k, 14k 20k
Giants - 3k, 15k 19k


yes bottom of the pile, clearly needs to be improved, why are we so far behind, i have given one of the reasons above but also the club doesnt help itself but poor at marketing in general !

Can't win- folk moan they haven't heard anything because the announce it I social media. I think it has lots to do with our demographic. IMO there's no point the club using it extensively if it won't get to the majority.

yep think we have hit the nail on the head with our fanbase and why other clubs wonder why we cant get big crowds for our games now we are a top side

the newbie fans expect us to be winning things, the older ones remember how far we have come!

i still think the club could use social media better, with initiatives ....they could easily just look at what the other clubs do... the ones that are already using the social media will engage better and spread the word more with shares and retweets!

I think the last two replies have highlighted why we don't get big crowds! We have secured I would say a solid home support of around 5,000 now and the majority of those will come what ever the club does (I mean in terms of doing ok, not getting relegated)! The majority of them are also the older demographic, therefore we don't need to appeal to the older demographic, because they are already going! To say we don't need social media because we have mainly older supporters is precisely why we should use social media! Hull KR's use of social media is second to none, not only in RL but in sport in general, and in the last 2/3 years they have seen a massive upturn in attendances!

What is that Hull KR that's so good?

And why aren't Fartown doing it?

Maybe it's because they can't get a decent signal because of the hills

It needs someone who knows how it works and how to use it, it's outside normal marketing and is a developing medium

I'm no expert but I know people that are - when done right it's fantastic

yep i totally agree, lots of good things done by other clubs and i have mentioned them on here before in the past but we as a club dont seem to use initiative like the rest.... probably why also we are lagging way behind, really is poor in this day and age when everything is social media, the club should get someone in just for this side of things, would pay for itself with attracting new fans

have a look on their twitter/facebook and compare.

hell knows why we dont do it, need a kick up the back side its a disgrace really to be so far behind the rest off the field when on it we are right up there

Stop moaning brearley.

Brearley, do you really think we will attract new fans by posting things on twitter and Facebook?

Hyde FC on Twitter started posting funny but relevant things a bout the club and it went viral! Their crowds almost doubled for about 3 months after it happened!

Due to followers, every time they tweet and advertisement or an offer they reach 45,000 people, compared to the others in their league, that's an extra 40,000! You can't honestly say social media won't impact crowds, too much evidence to support it! Hull KR is another point I made earlier!

yes

leeds post something and potential for 192k to see it and spread the word

giants do same and only 19k

all for free, what better way to spread the word and gain exposure, people need to look at the bigger picture

i understand how it works, i don't use twitter myself but how would posting something on social media site attract fans who have so far failed to be attracted by a team who won the league leaders shield and are regulars in the play offs and later rounds of the cup?
i know what you're saying regarding the lack of things..but i just don't see how it would attract new fans?

Interesting views guys. Take my example - been Taking my little lad Since he was a baby.

He is 12 now and He loves the Giants. He is surprised with the lack ofsocial media. How he is he meant to spread the word amongst his friends who all live on social media?

His expectations as a fan/customer are different to mine. And he is the future.

we cannot stop that - we should embrace it.

I don't know how you could say it doesn't help? An extra 100 and odd thousand seeing we have a game... We have an offer... We've won the game.... We've won the league leaders...! I've read a paper about 5 times in my lifetime yet I inow exactly what's going on all around the world because of social media! Would I know if people didn't tweet or share... NO!

I guess it's a generation thing, so far the club have failed to attract new fans despite relative 'success' on the pitch, now we know its because they didnt put a twitter or whatever on not because people werent interested

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Seriously, i don't do the twitter thing so don't really know how it works but i'm presuming its like anything else - Website, Examiner, posters etc that its only gonna get seen by people looking for info anyway, how would it make more people see the offers the club are peddling through the usual outlets ?

....because daz , my son would favourite it, and 1,500 of his 'friends' who all Live on their iPods, ipads and iPhones.....would all see it.

+1,500 new pairs of eyes seeing something about the Giants, can't be a bad thing.

Yes but 'seeing' it and being interested and coming to a game aren't the same....what percentage of those 1,500 would be interested enough to take up the offer ? i dunno, maybe it could/does work who knows ...worth a try i suppose !!

Same could be said that thousands of people have seen us on sky and on the BBC it doesn't automatically mean they are going to come to games though?
I would like to think by posting on Facebook and Twitter that we could. Magically get a few thousand extra people to come but sadly I doubt it will.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Giants should be capturing twitter account details, Facebook details mobile numbers ECG wherever and whenever it can. And then use them rather than let them sit in somebody's top drawer as I suspect has happened in the past

At the end of the day it's always gonna come down to the fact that of people aren't interested in rugby league they won't come and watch the Giants regardless of where you advertise or promote. You could tweet or text every person in the UK about our offers but they won't come unless it interests then and sadly our game and team don't seem to do that very much round here !!!!

Seems the ones who dont get it are the ones that dont really use social media that much...

the younger fans get it as we have grown up in this social media boom and see what other clubs are doing and wonder why the Giant are lagging so far behind.

the old ways havent worked so well so why are we not all over this!

all about creating interest and getting people talking about the Giants... if people spread the word and get talking about us they may think about coming to a game because of all this etc

would be great if the club could try new things instead of living in the dark ages which we seem to be as a club

nail on the head