: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:28 pm  

jannerboyuk wrote:

i thought the orthodoxy was that televising a game harms attendances? just out of curiousity how do you know that 'most' of the tickets were giveaways? im always curious as to people's sources for such bold statements.

Well i can tell you for a fact that when Widnes played Salford in front of the Sky camera's we set a new record attendance for the national leagues and all it took was for the club to sell tickets at half price to the parents of the kids that were involved in the 'Vikings Community Choir'.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:35 pm  

So they sold more tickets to people who wouldnt normally go?

Terrible, terrible idea.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:41 pm  

wigans idea of advertising the leeds game as the big one seems to be reaping the rewards- a 20k plus crowd is expected with currently over 15,000 tickets been sold for the game. tickets are priced at 10 quid and 5 quid for both sets of fans. and if you are a wigan season ticket holder and you buy a ticket you get yourself a free big 1 t shirt.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:09 pm  

Wire_Yed_79 wrote:

the thing is what is there in Hull ?

a rubbish football club with a tangoman manager, a big bridge and loads of boats.
voted the worse place to live in England, high unemployment, high crime, the majority of housing stock being Terraced.
levels of disability and mental illness are some of the country's' highest.

Frankly im not surprised you get big away crowds i'd want to get away too.
Home crowds, well you'd need the escapism.

How very dare you talk about my home town like that. Hang your head with shame.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:16 pm  

Newton-Le-willows-Warrior wrote:

wigans idea of advertising the leeds game as the big one seems to be reaping the rewards- a 20k plus crowd is expected with currently over 15,000 tickets been sold for the game. tickets are priced at 10 quid and 5 quid for both sets of fans. and if you are a wigan season ticket holder and you buy a ticket you get yourself a free big 1 t shirt.

They are certainly pushing it by every means possible, we received 5 leaflets from wigan the other day trying to get us to buy (ok the went in the bin but assuming the are targeting everyone on their database they are bound to get extras that way!) and it seems to be advertised on the radio regularly too.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:03 pm  

jannerboyuk wrote:

i thought the orthodoxy was that televising a game harms attendances? just out of curiousity how do you know that 'most' of the tickets were giveaways? im always curious as to people's sources for such bold statements.

Given that the Co-oP sponsorship of the league consists of only money [ £4,000 ] paid to the home teams when they are on TV and those clubs are then obliged to give out 200 family tickets it would seem fair to suggest that a large number of fans would have been admitted with those

It is true that many others may well have paid to watch their little darlings perform and as I said , well done

The point being the question asked was about ' Marketing teams '

Who has them and who doesn't ?

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:07 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Given that the Co-oP sponsorship of the league consists of only money [ £4,000 ] paid to the home teams when they are on TV and those clubs are then obliged to give out 200 family tickets it would seem fair to suggest that a large number of fans would have been admitted with those

About 200 families worth I would guess if they all took them up.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:37 pm  

Wadski wrote:

About 200 families worth I would guess if they all took them up.

So anything between 200 and 800 at the gate

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:48 pm  

Code13 wrote:

So they sold more tickets to people who wouldnt normally go?

Terrible, terrible idea.

Out of these ones 'who wouldn't normally go' most used to go the matches but they stopped going either through the club being relegated or cos a lot of fans had had enough when we had stephen vaughn as owner and they needed to realise that the club had changed and quite a few of these now go the matches.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:45 pm  

Yeah, what a rubbish idea, getting fans to come back