Post subject: Re: Do you think the harlequins crowd will improve
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:41 pm
Catalancs
Club Coach
Joined: Jan 28 2006 Posts: 18736 Location: Baix Empordà, Catalunya
gutterfax wrote:Square peg in a round hole scenario. There are 3 key markets that the club needs to target. 1. Local community. The borough of Richmond and Twickenham has a population of 250,000. These people need to be invited down for a game. I don't care if it's free tickets or a special offer, but we need to get people to a game so they can make up their own minds about RL. 2. ANZACS. Most of the people I spoke to at the Manly game had no idea we existed until TNT ran the promotion for that game. As much as they can be annoying little bu99ers, I would settle for 1,000 of them at each game. 3.Ex-pat northeners. A lot of the people I know through Quins RL are northeners by birth, but who live in the London area. You will often see them in their old Bradford Northern/Wire/St Helens/Wigan shirts supporting Quins. It is estimated that there are 600,000 northeners living in the London area. If 1% of these people came to our games we'd be running an 9,000 average straight away.
There is a final point. The Club need to sort out the pricing of tickets and the ticketing arrangements. A lot of Season Ticket holders are concerned that they are being short changed and anyone who brings a mate to a game is forced to sit in seats that are situated at the end of the stand. We have about 2,750 hard core fans and the club can't afford to start losing them.
good to see a quins fan thinking ahead and engaging in sensible debate.
some good ideas there, let's hope someone from the club has the same way of thinking.
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Post subject: Re: Do you think the harlequins crowd will improve
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:45 pm
Big Graeme
In The Arms of 13 Angels
Joined: Mar 08 2002 Posts: 26578 Location: On the set of NEDS...
Catalancs wrote:good to see a quins fan thinking ahead and engaging in sensible debate. some good ideas there, let's hope someone from the club has the same way of thinking.
It's money though, no one is prepared to risk money to build attendances, there is only so much you can do on the cheap, if you follow Gutterfax on the Quins board you'll see he is a marketing guru, he's set out that it isn't a huge gamble to put money into this but so far no one listens.
Fingerposts Finest wrote:hopefully quins crowds will improve further, they are playing some quite attractive rugby and are developing some of the best young talent in the british game.
The football side is looking pretty good, bums on seats is dire though.
Joined: Aug 13 2003 Posts: 20966 Location: The Shaky Isles
Alex BP' wrote:It's a shame, because they are starting to produce local, professional Rugby League players but nobody in London seems to be bothered.
Maybe these guys are the marketing tools to linking the people of London with the game?
You are me and I claim my £5.
I have banged on for years about getting the "players" out and about doing visits to local pubs with a couple of our cheerleaders in tow....selling advance tickets etc....but Oh No....the Club Know better.
I get very very p155ed off when the club ignore what are cost effective routes to market. They read these boards (I have been asked to tone down my marketing rants), but they pay no attention.
They are planning things to boost gates, but having no cash and being reliant on the Union office staff is not ideal.
dally messenger wrote:was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have
eels fan wrote:You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.
Joined: May 21 2005 Posts: 2843 Location: Lewisham, London.
cant you just dig up an old thread? we go through this 5 times a month
In a debate about why the CC final isnt in HD.
Gazemous wrote:Northerners can't afford HD, what's the point?
TheBigFella wrote:Im a Northerner and Ive got HD. C0ck. We could also probably buy 3 to 4 houses for what you would pay for 1, doesnt that tell you something.
Paddock Punter wrote:I did enjoy asking Bill Arthur at half time as he was walking past a long string of cables which one I could pull out so I could f**k their weekend up as well.
tim791 wrote:cant you just dig up an old thread? we go through this 5 times a month
Its still a massive cause for concern though and warrants a new thread IMO. If it doesn't pick up we are finished, and that will have a huge impact on the rest of SL too.
king warrior wrote:Dave do us a favour and gtfo you wopper
Joined: Aug 13 2003 Posts: 20966 Location: The Shaky Isles
Believe me....I remember a thread entitled "blame london" that was almost as long as the Chris Joint voluntary tackle saga [thread mode allo allo=]Listen carefully, I will say this only once[/allo allo]
Crowds are only part of the licence application. We tick a few other boxes and that's why we got a licence.
HTH
dally messenger wrote:was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have
eels fan wrote:You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.
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