Post subject: Re: Do you think the harlequins crowd will improve
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:20 am
gutterfax
International Board Member
Joined: Aug 13 2003 Posts: 20966 Location: The Shaky Isles
manly4ever wrote:Since they're climbing up the ladder? or will they still get 2000 turning up.
The Club have stated that 2009 is being treated as year 1 in a 3 year campaign to get more people to games. Our older brothers in the Union office are supposedly going to help out once the Union season is over and we now have a new General Manager who is tasked with sorting out the attendance figures. I know of 3 schemes that will be up and running soon that are designed to attract new fans.
That said, in the 7 years I have followed the club, I have banged on about the need to speculate to accumelate.......and the times that money has been spent on marketing we have seen bigger crowds...but the club do not have the funds in place for big time marketing.
The Media (and let's face it, they are all London Lovies educated at Oxbridge) have no interest in covering League. The BBC didn't mention MM on their Saturday morning bulletin, but found time to cover Chess Boxing (it is a real sport). The evening papers down here are slaves to Wendyball and the SL Show is still sown down here at 4am.......
Next week, the BBC will get 1,000,000 viewers + for the CC games, but by giving the commentary mike to a flat cap sounding nice person and his little welsh mate they simply underline the perception of League as a northern game.
In short, the answer to your question is no....we will not see bigger crowds in TW2 this year, but I believe we will be near the 5,000 average by 2011.
Lastly, we don't average 2,000...it's actually 3,342 so far this season which is still p1ss poor and needs sorting out.
manly4ever wrote:Since they're climbing up the ladder? or will they still get 2000 turning up.
The Club have stated that 2009 is being treated as year 1 in a 3 year campaign to get more people to games. Our older brothers in the Union office are supposedly going to help out once the Union season is over and we now have a new General Manager who is tasked with sorting out the attendance figures. I know of 3 schemes that will be up and running soon that are designed to attract new fans.
That said, in the 7 years I have followed the club, I have banged on about the need to speculate to accumelate.......and the times that money has been spent on marketing we have seen bigger crowds...but the club do not have the funds in place for big time marketing.
The Media (and let's face it, they are all London Lovies educated at Oxbridge) have no interest in covering League. The BBC didn't mention MM on their Saturday morning bulletin, but found time to cover Chess Boxing (it is a real sport). The evening papers down here are slaves to Wendyball and the SL Show is still sown down here at 4am.......
Next week, the BBC will get 1,000,000 viewers + for the CC games, but by giving the commentary mike to a flat cap sounding nice person and his little welsh mate they simply underline the perception of League as a northern game.
In short, the answer to your question is no....we will not see bigger crowds in TW2 this year, but I believe we will be near the 5,000 average by 2011.
Lastly, we don't average 2,000...it's actually 3,342 so far this season which is still p1ss poor and needs sorting out.
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Post subject: Re: Do you think the harlequins crowd will improve
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:33 am
Catalancs
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Joined: Jan 28 2006 Posts: 18736 Location: Baix Empordà, Catalunya
gutterfax wrote:The Media (and let's face it, they are all London Lovies educated at Oxbridge) have no interest in covering League. The BBC didn't mention MM on their Saturday morning bulletin, but found time to cover Chess Boxing (it is a real sport). The evening papers down here are slaves to Wendyball and the SL Show is still sown down here at 4am.......
you sound surprised
gutterfax wrote:The Media (and let's face it, they are all London Lovies educated at Oxbridge) have no interest in covering League. The BBC didn't mention MM on their Saturday morning bulletin, but found time to cover Chess Boxing (it is a real sport). The evening papers down here are slaves to Wendyball and the SL Show is still sown down here at 4am.......
you sound surprised
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Harlequins have in the past attracted decent crowds, and I'm sure they will again with the correct promotion and encouragement in and around the London area.
After near on thirty years of spreading the word in the south, I think the club deserves some recognition rather than much of the ridicule they receive from some. The spin off of Harlequins, Bronco's, Crusaders, Fulham has been an introduction of RL into the schools across the region and a decent amature set up along with London Skolars, another team that doesn't get half the recognition it deserves.
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