Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:38 am  

Wire Weaver wrote:

I spoke to Karl Fitzpatrick before yesterdays game, making it clear I wasn't happy with Saturday games. He told me that the majority of games next season would be Friday night games, with a few Saturday and Sunday matches. He gave the reason as the player recuperation from concussion needing a minimum of 6 days and most other clubs playing on a Friday, so there is little prospect of anything changing next year from this. Sunday games seem to be phasing out.

I am a bit unusual in that I do a 240 mile round-trip to see home games but Fridays are a real pain. I travel by train and there are, quite literally, no trains going back after 8pm games finish. My parents still live in Warrington so I can stay with them, but that's taking a big slice out of every other weekend. For Sunday games I can do the round trip and be back home before 8pm. That's a big difference.

Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:08 pm  

Apart from your point of view, the railways are missing a massive chunk of revenue with not running trains late at night . The opportunities with countrywide sport ,music concerts etc would be a big money spinner for train operators even just running normal scheduled trains through the night.

Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:32 pm  

No panic here. I fully expect a number of announcements regarding signings and the coaching situation once it becomes apparent which league we will be playing next year. No decent player with ambition is gonna sign on while we're threatened with relegation. Season ticket sales will follow. Have a good start to the season and fans will come crawling back. I find it difficult to believe what has happened this year will be allowed to happen again

Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:29 pm  

ninearches wrote:

Apart from your point of view, the railways are missing a massive chunk of revenue with not running trains late at night . The opportunities with countrywide sport ,music concerts etc would be a big money spinner for train operators even just running normal scheduled trains through the night.

Some of the reason is that they often do track maintenance and inspections overnight.

Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:56 pm  

Do we really need a ST?

Miss a couple of games through Sky rescheduling them or having to work and the benefits no longer exist.
What happened to the discount with local business' that was advertised?
People will say that this was under Roger Draper's reign, but nonetheless our contract was with Warrington RLFC.
Take games like Catalan at the weekend, tickets were advertised by the club for £10.

Re: 2018 Boosting Season Ticket Sales : Wed Aug 16, 2017 2:40 pm  

WazzaWire wrote:

fans will come crawling back.

Odd choice of phrase. Fans will decide to come back if/when there is decent entertainment on offer for a reasonable price.