[mish]

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:10 pm  

I've finally managed to look through the magazine and it's quite good with some interesting articles and news about all the teams, new players etc. The problem is that I buy both rugby papers at a cost of £2.60 and get all this information, and more, which is much more up to date - so I personally wouldn't buy this programme.

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:22 pm  

mishmash wrote:

I've finally managed to look through the magazine and it's quite good with some interesting articles and news about all the teams, new players etc. The problem is that I buy both rugby papers at a cost of £2.60 and get all this information, and more, which is much more up to date - so I personally wouldn't buy this programme.

I used to get both RL papers, plus the monthly magazine, but soon found I was just re-reading old news that I had read on RLFans or other Internet sources.

I never much liked our matchday programmes (too many adverts!) and don't much fancy the idead of an NL-wide dictated one either.

What I suppose you need to consider is where can you help the club make most money - £2 for the Game On mag, where Leigh make £1 or £2.50 for the club programme (anyone know what kind of profit the club makes on them? Would hope it was more than £1?)

: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:27 pm  

WOLRAB wrote:

how strange, even leigh are obliged to buy them, eventhough we are producing our own programme, surely we will lose money on this, as most people i would assume would probably stay loyal and buy the club programme.

We as a Club knew that the RFL were introducing this magazine, but felt our supporters would like to hear about our Club, at our stadium, in our programme. The Championship teams apparently voted in favour of this RFL publication - although I would suggest the way the RFL went about the voting process, relied heavily on communications within each club, being less than perfect!!

I'm not against the RFL publication - any publicity for the Championship must be good - but my fear always was, that the magazine would be re-hashing news that had already appeared in the 'trade' press. (especially as it is published, by the publishers of one of those weekly RL papers)

So, yes, we will lose money on the RL publication, but hopefully more will be tempted to buy the 'Centurion'