OK, Wakey and Catalans aren't traditionally big draws and the wakey gate was 76 people up on 2009, but WTF are the club up to? The Massive Marketing Campaign seems to have really kicked in....resulting in our lowest home gate against Catalans and I believe our 5th lowest home gate since 2000.



With Salford(2,663) and Huddersfields (2,800) visits a month away, and neither being massive draws the club may find themselves 1/3 of the way through an important HOME season with an average gate of under 3,000.

In 2005 we were nearly at 4,000 and in 2006 we were at 4,200......where have these people gone? What is being done to get them back?



OK, there were lots of OTHER things to do on Sunday, but 2,330 is a disgrace. These are the games that if you are going to give tickets away should be targeted. Close games traditionally and exciting ends......but no, we will probably see the same mistakes being made again and get our 1 bumper crowd of the season to witness us get hammered by someone

It really isn't brain surgery......you target the games that may well be close or exciting......increasing the chances of getting newbies back.



I would fill the Stoop with free tickets for the Salford game......balls to viral marketing and oyster card holders......give free tickets out in TNT, the local paper.....any way you can. Take a chance....stop dipping your toe in the water. Regardless of what it costs in lost gate receipts and extra stewarding.......this is the only way to get mildly interested people through the gate. Once they are there.....find out who they are and market to them heavily.....

5,000 oyster card holders cost £1,500 + VAT........money well spent? It managed to trim 209 off the Catalan gate from 2009 and deliver 600 less than the average gate against them.....outstanding work.





Sorry, but every ST holder should be sent 10 tickets to the Salford game NOW........if that leaves 5,000 to give away in TNT etc...then so be it, but FFS, something has to change.



As wire-quin will no doubt point out, I am not a Marketing professional, but that's the problem with London RL.......no Degree in Marketing or previous experience can prepare you for this job.....



If anyone doubts that we are in trouble regarding a licence next time I suggest you look at the number below for 5 minutes and see if it makes you as depressed as me



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If Salford manage to start building a stadium in the next 12 months we are in big trouble, regardless of what Lewis says

The guy on the radio reckoned there were around 1000 people there in reality.

Yawn-Stick to filling Auckland Warriors ground up. We've heard it all before.



Maybe our speedway fan in Oxford and all the other Sunday is the only day to play due to.... will provide some explanation for the poor gate today. They cant even blame the sun in your eyes rubbish as there was none to be seen.

Rubbish. I was there and I thought it was around the 2,500 mark. I was sat right in the middle and it was pretty busy. These crowds aren't good enough and I really thought the 3,000+ was attainable today. However, it was disappointing. The bl**dy rail engineering works always seem to conspire against Quins too.



I was chatting to a few folk on the way back. Is there any hope of increasing "local" support with the Union side so pro-active in the immediate area?



I enjoy going to the Stoop. The fans seem to enjoy themselves. The atmosphere is getting better. But just not enough bums on seats.

It always is busy in the middle. Its when you can't get seats together in the outer 2 blocks that you know the stand is over half full.



Are the club counting all season tickets or not? 2 of us didn't bother. And a few others on these forums. Similar effect probably in effect across our fanbase.

I always sit at the end of the stand, and actually stood down by the front for the last fifteen minutes. From my seat it looked like the worst crowd in my three seasons attending, from standing at the front, sadly I'd say the 1,000 figure was close to the actual numbers there

Surely the time is now approaching where a leap of faith is required , if you are to avoid the unthinkable

Right on time...







Yes...you've heard it all before and chances are will continue to hear it because while we may have a new marketing team, but we are getting the same old results from them.....SFA. Are we going to give them "time"? I seem to recall the club giving someone time previously and we sold 1 box in a season......how much time do they need?



I would love to see the next 2 games get 3,000+ crowds, but that would still not bring us any nearer to the 5,000+ needed.........

What would you do Wire-quin? Seriously, if I bore you with my musings on marketing fine, but telling me to stop is just childish. If you want to debate what may or may not work getting people in fine, but if all you can do is say how tedious I am I suggest you just avoid my posts



BTW, I am in Wellington, so the Warriors really aren't my problem as they are the Aukland Warriors in everything but name.

Fax you have a good point. My local football team recently offered free enty and tripled its crowd and made more money than a normal Saturday. Did not have to pay tax, gained donations, sold more burgers and beer. The last two games (all pay) have resulted in the same crowd numbers as before the free entry! However the move resulted in free local press and radio coment which can only be a good thing. Winning today helps but it will be a long struggle.

It is fortunate the boys dug deep and put on such a stirring performance because that was a Championship attendance. Surely it is now time to give tickets away, do some really dynamic and see if there is an audience out there waiting to be asked. It must be difficult for the players to raise their game in a stadium that is a sisxth full. If we had lost it would have seemed like a funeral wake.

Offering free tickets is not a short term answer , it needs to be a long term strategy , the problem with that is the worry [ one that has been repeated to me by SL chairmen when discussed that existing paying spectators will take up these freebies and revenues will suffer



The answer to this has to be communication , you have to convince your existing fan base that if they do abuse this initiative then quite simply they will not have a club to support , but if you do not try these type of things they will also not have a club to support



Very difficult , but surely do able with a bit of initiative

quins wont be dropped from super league remember mr lewis came out and said that quins are to important to super league for no reason. but come on crowds of 2,330 is shocking and not good enough for super league, no super league licence for the quins