Hi Everyone, We've just launched a new website for supporters to join Club 1873 on. I am currently giving away 50 signed pictures of Liam Kay's second try against Castleford last Sunday to the first 50 people who sign up using the website. Pictures will be sent out once the second months payment has been taken. There couldn't be a better way to help the club and our Youth Development Programme. Please join online now at wildcats.club1873lotto.com Together We Are Stronger. Many Thanks Ant

Hi Everyone, We've just launched a new website for supporters to join Club 1873 on. I am currently giving away 50 signed pictures of Liam Kay's second try against Castleford last Sunday to the first 50 people who sign up using the website. Pictures will be sent out once the second months payment has been taken. There couldn't be a better way to help the club and our Youth Development Programme. Please join online now at wildcats.club1873lotto.com Together We Are Stronger. Many Thanks Ant

Done, although i was a member previously until the club decided to stop taking my money??

Good stuff, its a shame you weren't in position when it was launched, I'm sure it would've been more successful. I hope you survive the cull.

Hi David, I can't apologise enough for that. I've just done quick check on the system and you were down as a recurring card payer. The most common reason for cancellations here is when you get a new debit/credit card through the post as your old one expired or you reported it lost/stolen. I wasn't here then sadly, but the club would have tried to contact you to obtain some new card details. If we can't get hold of you after so long we can only cancel you.

Hi KK, I'm not going anywhere. Club 1873 is a good source of income for the YDP and it needs someone here full time to push it and take care of all the admin work.

Many Thanks
Ant

Done, so thats two lots of numbers I have now. Come on folks - £2 a week is not a lot (and I have won twice already, although not a big prize).

Thanks 60's Cat.

I'm currently looking at the prizes to see if we can change it up a bit. Ideally, we just want to be able to put up cash prizes but until we reach a certain target that isn't much of an option. We've just agreed a deal with local company K9's And Posh Paws to replace one of the daily spot prizes though for now. That will start in a couple of weeks.

Many Thanks
Ant

Hi Ant,

Wasn't a complaint about big prizes - just trying to convince people that £2 a week is not a lot and that winning anything is a bonus.

Took another set of numbers

Ant I have sent you a personal message

Signed up

Well, I'm in as well.

Go on then just don't tell her indoors!

Go on then just don't tell her indoors!

Bigamist?

How come we can give away £cash prizes when we haven't got any????
If it were money can't buy prizes I'm in!

There is circa £1400 going into the lottery each week, money comes out of that.

I just joined up from Sydney..

good luck guys...

Ps to the lottery officials... if I win... donate the money to a good charity.

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Quote ="WTW Lottery Dept"Hi Everyone, We've just launched a new website for supporters to join Club 1873 on. I am currently giving away 50 signed pictures of Liam Kay's second try against Castleford last Sunday to the first 50 people who sign up using the website. Pictures will be sent out once the second months payment has been taken. There couldn't be a better way to help the club and our Youth Development Programme. Please join online now at wildcats.club1873lotto.com Together We Are Stronger. Many Thanks Ant'" Great marketing idea. Was thinking of re-joining as I quit some time since and this has given me an extra reason to do so!

That's kind of how a lottery works though isn't it; people buy tickets based on the chance of winning a prize, the receipts from tickets vastly outweighs the value of prizes therefore the prize money is, I guess, the opportunity cost of generating around £1400 p/week in profit.

The money can't buy type prize I agree with - to some people, that would be very attractive.

Approximately £1400 per week? From my back-of-a-fag-packet reckoning, that comes out at about 700 fans paying into the lottery. That is less that the hardcore attending in the darkest days of pre-SL, even allowing for families etc where one person pays in. Set that against 4,000+ taking advantage of cheap season tickets.

It is up to the individual as to whether you view that as taking advantage in the sense you'd do for any product, or taking advantage in a way that undermines the very thing you support, which isn't your typical purchase. Either way though, the business brains behind it doesn't seem so sparkling after the gaping hole in the finances has been revealed.

Think that figure is profit - not revenue

I can't imagine the revenue figures account for that many more paying in, it was hardly something that people signed up for expecting payouts to be close to 100%, and as the lottery manager has appeared to suggest on another thread that they've not followed up when a continuous card payment has meant someone lapsed, I'd be suprised to hear it was heavily staffed.

Signed up.

Been signed up from the night it was launched - never won a bean; it's beginning to feel personal!

I have won the jackpot of £250 which went toward my £350 Season Ticket price for this year & have won a meal voucher for Kashmiri Lounge (Daughter nicked that one).
I havent won anything since and my hubby has won nothing.
You've got to be in it to win it and Anthony sorting out the notifications of who wins what is brilliant -The Mrs!

If my bid wins his shirt on eBay will he sign the shirt?