It wouldn't make any difference if they stopped going all together. The Club would continue to blindly spend money on the 1 point for development and ignore the 4 points available for crowds and solvency.......



That's right....2 points for 40% average gate and 10k averages = a better chance of being Solvent and turning over £4,000,000.
14,816 x 13 @ £10 each = 1.9 million....a few beers a few jerseys and Bingo...£4,000,000 and 4 points + the line of Kids wanting to play the game would grow as well.......

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One of the most effective ways of increasing attendances (without throwing tickets about like confetti) are the "bring a mate" offers - for instance I brought a mate of mine to Wakey back in 2001 - 9 years, 9 season tickets, 9 shirts and about 100'00 beers later he's still coming, replete now with his wife and kids (kids are now mad keen Trinity fans.)

Obviously I realise that this probably a perfect example, but for the sake of making your mates tickets a fiver or something for one game, at the very worst the club is £5 richer and in this instance £1000's.

The same here. They guy that brought me to my first game has to remain nameless for fear of retribution from some on here

that would already attend but pay at the gate , the most important thing that any club needs to do if they are trying to increase their support base with offers is to educate and inform the existing fans what and why they are doing

A few years back at Hilton Park I witnessed stewards watching while so called loyal fans were getting in on the cheap with student cards and then passing these student cards back out through metal gates for their ' mates ' to use again and again

That is the problem with bring a mate type incentives , not saying you shouldn't do them , but they like all idea's have their drawbacks

Look at British Ice Hockey. the leagues are almost entirely full of Canadians.
If our league/team is full of second rate aussies (which most imports are) it gives the impression that the game is weak, this is particularly the case with London/Quins Cats or Celts and why would people want to pay good money to watch second class sport.
Developling your own players also gives the club an identity (which is why it was a shame to lose Sykes/Moran/Steele (I know two are "second class aussies" but you can have a few sprinkled in the side without diminishing the idea that its an imported game (look at the failings of American Football/Baseball/Ice Hockey/Basketball over here.
Players who can identify with the club and whom the fans can identify with are the most important thing rather than nationality and this is more easily achieved through academy players - look at how we've taken to LMS Clubb Sharpe Jamie O in their first seasons rather than the young brits we've signed. You can look at other sports too for this. The popularity of Gerrard, Terry at Liverpool Chelsea, or long term players like Cesc and Rooney at Arsenal and Man U.

Crowds
Crowds legitimise us in the wider publics eye rather than the curio we are now. If we have a big enough crowd to survive and do well then overall numbers are not essential but point to the game of RL being in a healthy state.
They make for better atmosphere which make games more enjoyable, which brings with it bigger crowds.

Would I mind if we won something infront of three people with a team full of aussies. Not at first but I would also know that the future of the game down here was not on sure ground.