Durham Giant wrote:
Will not go down well with many fans and probably a big shock that it was only announced when season ticket renewals went out.
But.
It is a bold and decisive step announced by the club where I feel they had no option. The previous messing around with days because of sky meant that the could not have any marketing strategy. Fridays gives them that opportunity.
Something I said the club should do two or three years ago.
the right thing to do in the circumstances and goood luck to them in that endeavour.
What I will say is that the stewarding in th efamily stand needs to be upped to make sure that the new fans it bring in don't use it as an excuse for an early mickey up with the usual anti social behaviour that goes with it. They don't want to bring back the older teens and 20 somethings and alienate that core of older fans and families that have been around for a long time
Just out of interest, what is the family stand? i presume you mean the lower of the riverside, has it ever been marketed at families or is it just where families tend to go? like the back, middle of the Kilner bank has never really been marketed as the noisy section but that's how it's evolved over the years.
Serious question as i wasn't aware we had a family stand.
As for the older teens, these are the age group we are lacking and should be targetting IMO, families will tend to drift away as will young teenagers and the older fans usually just moan but keep coming anyway
