I was really pleased with the team that was put together after last season. I still think the individual skills of the players in the team are still higher than most of the London teams in the recent past, though the scientists among you will ask me for some evidence!

The problem seems to be motivation and confidence.

RP, and Brian Mac before him, have never stuck me as great experts in sport psychology. I don't think it is any coincidence that Brian Mac has gone to a team where the captain Kevin Sinfield works outside rugby as a professional motivational speaker and suddenly he is a great coach! Have been dismayed to see before games where RP walks around the outside of the pitch with his hands in his pockets not talking to anyone.

We need somebody who can not only talk up a team in the 2 minutes before a match but also how to talk up an individual to consistently great performances.

I don't know how the players are paid, and what can be done to alter their contracts, but I would like to think something can be done to put basic pay down and win bonuses up!

Also need to make London a special place for the players to be, whether they have special nutritional courses or teach them ballet, the guys should feel that London is the best place for them personally to be as a professional rugby player.

RP please sort it soon, we MAY have a great team.

I'd be happy for us to have Morgan - has experience and seems pretty smart and media savvy judging by his TV appearances

Isn't Morgan back in Aus as a No 2?

Indeed, assistant at Canberra.

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A quick five minute job I know but all it would take the club to do is get a PhotoShop wizard to turn Gower into the style of image that Tevez is in (see below) and get "accessible from Waterloo" and "ticket prices from £10" and get that in the Evening Standard, Twickenham local rag, Twickenham station etc etc.

Change the photo each week or go for other famous poster campaigns, for example the "your country needs you" poster turned to "your city/club needs you"

getting them into the paper's costs money.

Cowgirls should be flyering on Friday evenings before our home games in the town's bars and station and again out and about in Twickenham and Richmond matchday mornings.

And spending money, as perverse as it sounds in this recession hit country, worked when Cas were in town last year, didn't it?

No - they were all freebies and none have returned

Welcome to Manchester was clever and got press because Tevez was already there. The suggestion being City was the real Manchester. While the idea of using this is good, it needs an angle like that to it. Just sticking the slogan on a picture of a player is not it.

Attn Moe Lester:

Have you any concept as to how much the advertising you suggest would cost? Can I respectfully suggest you research your posts before typing in future...it will stop you looking like a 5yr old.



Above the Line Marketing.......like the stuff you suggest is for the gillettes of this world....not for the Broncos.

Moe - all you need is a packet of seeds and a roundabout. That's called below the ground marketing.

hahaha

True but Man City put up one poster and it got in all the papers.

Spectacular failure to see the point............., well done

Hmmm, your point just seemed to consist of publically humiliating someone because their ideas weren't properly costed.

What I was pointing out was that raising awareness [ican [/ibe done very succesfully without spending much money. You knock the "viral" videos but done well they can be very effective. The problem is ours have not been done well so no one would really want to watch them. Viral (by definition) requires people to pass links on. The club haven't produced "viral" videos, what they have produced is bad videos which no one wants to watch.

Best videos the club produced were the Predator and Alien ones with Jonny G a few years back

Yeah Darth, they were good but the club didn't produce them, did they? They were Marty's babies, I believe.

Sorry to have to post something in support of the club, but I like the stuff they've done on you tube.

My idea for a viral video of Sarginson, Krasniqi and Te Mata beating the living daylights out of a Chris Ashton look-a-like was rejected by the club

Great idea, Pingwing. I hope they gave you good reasons why this couldn't have been done.

How about something for the kids as above but with Buck and Dusty kicking the out him.

Yet you suggest all sorts of utter drivel whilst force feeding numbers into all of us



Photoshop pays for itself if you have someone with the know how to use the programme. Its about £80 a year, isn't it? Hardly bank breaking.

Also, if you believe that advertising in the local rag in Twickenham and whatever areas it covers would be [ithat[/i expensive, you are horrendously incorrect.

These are the people that should be targeted, the locals. Not the big wigs in the city, nor plastering advertising across the city, for these people live anything between 0.1 miles to 10 miles away from the Stoop.

The current flock of supporters on here, however mad looking and totally negative, seem to travel from all over to watch the side but these people have either a natural interest in the game (like wire quin, seeing as he was presumably born near Warrington), travelled across London for years to watch the numerous sides (I imagine there's a few of them here) or are just generally happy to travel that distance. Sadly, not many will travel across London to get to a ground that's poorly connected by transport, so the locals have to be targeted.

A half page advertisement the week of the upcoming home game will set the club back very little, having just had a look online. Or even a quarter page, its hardly millions.

Should be a wrap every preseason with full fixture list. Followed up by full page and quarter page ads throughout the year.

Not with the goal of one of increases but to steadily build awareness and interest which - in time turns to increased attendances.