"I don't think they have any problems with me anyway, nor any other users."...........and you accuse me of being blinkered!!



Yup example still holds........the whole stadium is not was is `actually` on offer, therefore if you want a ticket you have to make the best of what is available.

" Do you retract your comment describing people who have the nerve not to buy a ticket in advance, and how they should be treated?".........No, why should I......("have the nerve" is a nice emotive addition on your part by the way)..........I merely stated the facts, I planned ahead and have bought a good seat......if you drag your feet, backside, whatever, you can only make the best of what tickets are left. You made the bit up about `how they should be treated`.

You know them personally then? Fair enough if so, I wasn't aware of this, especially after The Gob text me after the Catalans game.


And then there is what should be available. I would be pretty frustrated if I got on a plane in a rubbish seat if half of it was empty for no good reason. Although I'm struggling to think of a seat on an aeroplane that would cause me distress. So your example is flawed even further.



This is why the club will go nowhere, as the club share this pathetic attitude.

Did someone mention "new fans" in a post

Not important, apparently.

Quite


I can't believe the clubs apparent lack of activity since the Wakey game. Last year the RFL were responsible for the gate, the seating and the profit made.....all of which made for the biggest gate of the year, both sides open, a cracking atmosphere and a ROI in just 1 game.....
.....normal service has been resumed it would seem

Im with Listy on this one. Its a disgrace, Im hoping to bring 2 or 3 people to the game who cant confirm until today, so I couldnt get tickets in advance. As a result i will probably now be stuck on the edges, as according to the website all the good seats are gone. Why didnt the club use this as a marketing tool?? The main stand is nearly sold out so we are opening the south stand? Unallocated seats in the new stand behind the posts would be brilliant and id be more than happy to sit there. But I dont want to sit on the front row or the edges of the 1 stand thats open for a showpiece game. Its pathetic. Still no replica shirts for sale?? pathetic. The clubs marketing is pathetic and embarrassing. I will always support the club and get to all home games. But we dont deserve a SL place. We are not a professional operation.

If people want fans to stop moaning on here then the club needs to start behaving in a way that a SL club that respects the sport should.

Fans of Leeds and Wigan moan-There is no end to it. If it isnt marketing its the ground, style of play, sun in your eyes.........

after reading all the posts i wish i hadnt started this thread,i got our tickets in the etihad,not bad view and 30 quid for 4 tickets....bloody good value i think,and if the sun gets in my eyes ill pull my cap down a bit further.im not a marketing man so will leave it to those getting paid for it.i shall just enjoy seeing our lads playing the nrl champions and remember all those years ago at crystal palace playing 2nd division games.....now you would have had something to moan about back then re marketing etc.

Ok

Done my rounds, managed to get a crew of 8 together... gone to buy tickets online... only 6 single seats in different stands/areas available.

Now, do any of you find this acceptable? Please defend this?

I cant buy tickets to a game that has sold a small amount of tickets.

No wonder ticket sales are down.

I dont even know if I will bother tomorrow. Please dont tell me to call the club, if I wasnt a regular at the stoop how would i know that this club is inept and I would need to call the box office, or roll up at the gate. To a newbie this would give the impression of a sell out, when in fact we will be lucky to have a ground 1/3 full tomorrow.

Disgrace!

You should have bought your tickets months in advance of course, not the club's fault

Lets hope the club have learned some valuable lessons from this. Imo the ethiad should have been season ticket holders priority for maybe 1 week to buy their seat tickets and as many as the £5 tickets as They wanted. after that Blocks AA,AB AC AG AH AJ Unallocated with Either the Lexus or North/South stand open from the start. I know their will be a lot of walk ons on the day and probably majority Antip's who the club should be targeting to return to watch the Quins on a regular basis. Lets hope the game is a good un and the bar is organised.

Nothing wrong with the ground and the style of play is pretty boring now you mention it......But yes...it is Marketing! (or lack of it and CRM)

OK so its no ideal but going from 8 attending to not going 'cause you cant sit like primary school kids in a row seems unusual.
I wish they would make my misses sit on her own in the Lexus stand- She asks that many bloody questions during the game

What are you a swingers group or something

there were 6 single tickets online... 6 single seats!

wire-quin i dont know how you can make that comment! its f'n pathetic on the clubs behalf. you should be able to sit with your mates at a game that has a crowd that isnt even a third of the grounds capacity. this is a game that is supposed to showcase the club to 'new fans'.

i used to wonder why the game in london hadnt grown, here's why. i won't even use the word amature, because amature clubs are doing a better job at promoting the game in this city.

yes, getting the largest gate possible is insane, you need to keep operational costs as low as possible!

Yup. Enjoy your day relaxing at home or doing something else other than going to the match, I know I will

OK, looks like I'm first back, so we'll start with the good news

Quins RL 10 (another great effort from Will Sharpe in the corner).....from here it goes downhill
Storm 34

Attendance - 3,612
Only one stand used
Even the Jumbuck's pie stall was closed
Nobody appeared to be getting details from those that attended. The only sign of any information being taken was Virgin's competition to win a flight which was a phone text competition

All that said, as a lover of RL, I enjoyed the afternoon

I thought the youngsters held their own during the game, although we were outclassed by Melbourne we showed a lot of promise. Will's score was indeed a great effort!!
No visible Marketing presence re data collection, think we could have done a lot more on the day to keep the Aussie contigent happier as well.
Don't forget the crowd was -2 after the streaker and his chum were ejected from the ground!!!!
Still no shirts in the shop !!!! Perhaps that's why Skolars had theirs for sale in the Kings Bar ????

Sounds like the youngsters stood up to be counted and judging by the picture on the Quins board, it was a filthy day.
The other stuff is just depressing. The RFL spent money last year and got 6,000+.....quins revert to type this year and get over 2,000 less

and even the 1,000 or so first timers/Aussies etc will drift off....unknown and uncontactable.

Have we picked the cheesy NZ accent up as well have we? The church awaits you on your return.

The bar was packed after the game for a couple of hours but thats a positive so lets forget it.

How are your local team the warriors getting on?

Gutters, yep they held their own. The conditions didn't help the ball handling, some solid tackling in defence and they stood up well when being tackled in the attack. Overall I thought they showed a lot of commitment and there may have been a glimmer of a "Do or Die" attitude within the squad out today

Warriors are doing OK thanks for asking, but as I said, they are an Auckland team and I prefer to follow my local team....the Petone Panthers. Season starts in 4 weeks.

The Roosters and The cowboys have lost to the warriors in the pre-season games so far and next up is Manly....the new Warriors gear is available in all sports shops and their season ticket sales are up on last year...it's like being in Twickenham....except for the pre-season games against decent opposition, the new jersey being available and season ticket sales being healthy

OK, OK, don't rub it in !!!!!!

Quins couldn't organise a pzzz up in a brewary with regard tickets. Paid on the gate and the person in front of me was complaining about being sold two tickets for 1 adult and 1 child on different rows! When he complained and asked for them to be changed so that they could sit together was told sorry that is how the tickets have been allocated and cannot be changed. Needless to say his experience was poor and he probably won't want to come back for future games. QRL misssed a trick and should have issued unallocated seats for all but the centre seats.

Its not going to happen overnight-We have direction with Blanchard and a great youth development programme-Time will tell.

The game today wasn't a great spectacle but then thats indicative of the Aussie style of playing RL