A great night and an exciting game-Well done to Quins for the initiative

Maybe 1,500 taken up, many to Cas fans. Still, you'd have to be Stephen Jones not to find that exciting. Minor gripe though, 7.30 is a bit of a rush for me, even 7.45 would be better.

M25 was a mare yesterday

For once, we actually may be able to persuade most of the new-comers to return for another match.
Those attending last nights game cannot fail to be impressed with the spectacle of Rugby League. It kept you enthralled right up to the final whistle.
Well done to all at the club for a great night out.
(Had to leave straight after the final whistle because of the distance to travel home, so could not go into the bar. Did many fans use the bar afterwards ?)

Because of not getting home until very late I've always been against Friday nights, but somehow kicking off that half an hour earlier, instead of 8:00, seemd to make a huge difference.

Yeah, I liked the atmosphere too, surely more 4K there?

Seemed like it was over 5k
Great atmosphere

Yeah it was a good atmos last night, always seem to enjoy my RL or football more under the lights and nice to see the 3 stands open.Hopefully a few of the newbies will have had a good night and want to come back for more. Trouble with Fridays for me is having to come from work and then having to leave almost straight away to get trains home - now if it were a Saturday evening kick off........

Well they have a chance to see if a offer like they made for the Cas game would work on a Saturday with the Salford game coming up at the end of the month. With this game being played at 6pm and in front of sky cams,if the club could work out the same deal from the evening standard for this one it might look good in front of the cams with the stands open and abit of noise like last night.





If they can get a good band in the club too to for after the game and being a Saturday you might get a few to hang round as well.. I would go as far as to say try and get some local schools play a game before if not that then maybe the U18's and see if that gets people there early

Announced figure was 4,000 plus a few hundred I think

That chart topping group The Soldiers were quite entertaining last night !!!

1hr 40 mins to do 40 miles on a Friday night, no chance of making it by train. 7.30 kick off on a Friday is a kick in the teeth to loyal fans from outside the M25. I parked my car at 7.25 and had to drive like an idiot on the M3 to do that. If there was more than a couple of games a year on a Friday evening it would be a big problem for me.

I know what you mean, I had to dash to Waterloo to make the 5.13 train and rendezvous with my mate, which meant we only had 1hr 30m drinking time in the Grand Union beforehand. Then after the game we got the train back to Clapham Junction and my friends needing to get the train to Maidstone meant we could only drink till twenty past 11. It was a really difficult occasion

I'm going to be having nightmares for the next week about the state of affairs in The Falcoln

If most of the free tickets went to Cas fans then why was the South stand not swathed in yellow and black? The people in there didn't seem to have 'team' colours apart from a few Quins away shirts.....

Hopefully the club will try this again with a Saturday game.

Yes, I thought that, Jillie.

The South Stand had the neutrals/newbies in whilst Cas fans were (mainly) in the North.

It was good to see people in three of the stands in what was the biggest attendance for a game against Cas since 2000 (think that was the game at the Valley where Cas fans had free coaches laid on).

BTW, Gus Mackay said in London Calling that they've got a partnership with the ES and will be working with them on a number of "initiatives" throughout the season.

The ES photographer was in the Kngs bar after the game so maybe ES will give Us a good report on Monday.

If they had the initiative to get their hands on the free tickets in the first place they were probably clever enough to get seats in the other stands!

It seemed like a good promotion. Decent match with a thrilling climax and best atmosphere for ages. Some friends of mine went along with free tickets and enjoyed it. Hopefully we can keep pulling enough people to have three stands open on a regular basis.

I saw very few Cas fans in the south stand. And those I did appeared after halftime. I suspect many of those picked up the tickets through the LES deal (like I did) or even through the match ball sponsers Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.



And a few that had fallen by the wayside in previous years. There was a dad and his lad sat behind me. Dad had been to see Fulham in his teenage years but stopped when "we" became nomads around London. His Lad is now the proud owner of a Quins RL shirt. On my way home by train I was talking to 3 gents 2 whom had never been to a RL match of any kind previously. Both were enthralled with the spectacle and thought the atmostphere was quite good as well. Would think about going again............ on a promo.



I'd go further and say that it was the support of the crowd that saw Quins almost snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat. Had the game been played on the regular Sunday pm slot with two stands only with fans in it having any fans in it I'd bet that we'd have lost with more than the 26 points conceeded. I believe that the atmostphere was also created because it was an evening match.



It appears that we have a CEO who is using his contacts book and promotional/marketing experience to the club's benefit. As for Quins RL working with the LES, I picked up a physical copy on the way home at Waterloo Underground and to my amazement found two albeit small articles regarding the game that night in it. Hope it's the first of many and these will grow in size. Wonders may never cease.

Well done to Gus Mackay and his team for putting on an "event". Let's hope for many more.

Seconded. The fact that it was an exciting game can't have hurt, either.

Outstanding result IMO!
4K+ on a Friday is a cracking gate....and it is great to hear that some of the newbies may well come back. The Yorkshireman I got my tickets for has emailed to say the only thing he didn't enjoy was the flat southern ale and if they had Tetley he'd be a ST holder


Seriously, he hadn't been to a RL game since the 70's when he was a regular at headingly and he says reckons that the best audience to target would be (if you can find them) ex-pat northerners like him. He and the wife stayed for a couple of beers afterwards and reckon that the wierdest thing was listening to cockneys talk about RL with passion and Knowledge

...he will be back again this year (especially if he can get more free tickets).

I await the customer survey that I believe is vital in these sorts of campaigns.....an email to all those who got freebies. Simply remove the Castleford postcodes first and offer 4 free tickets for Catalans AND the Salford games to all who respond.

Enjoyed the game, looking back now after a few days cool off. At the time I felt we should have won being 24-10 up at one point. Quins are always dangerous with players such as Dorn and Gale running at big tired defenders. On the ticket offer and crowd, seemed it was a good time to do it. Cracking result, exciting game and one which surely must get the excitement of rugby league across to the new guys. Hope it kick starts a rise in attendances.

Cas fans with free tickets were able to swap them for tickets in the away stand.

Or maybe just brush it all under the carpet and say nothing.

Was there nothing in the paper on Monday?