The M word : Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:17 am  

No not mate, maybe or melt but marketing.

As far as I can see next to no effort has been made to market Sunday's opening fixture.

Unless loads of free tickets have been given out on the sly I'm going to have to revise my original (dismal) estimate of 500 odd downwards.

350 sounds about right I reckon.

Re: The M word : Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:07 pm  

What's the M for, Missing crowd?

Mate is a Navy rank and one not to be used when talking about a tough contact sport like RL (Add in RAF to that)

Re: The M word : Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:23 pm  

Exiled down south wrote:

What's the M for, Missing crowd?

The Romans used to go in for decimation.

Whereas the Swintonian goes in for annihilation.

Re: The M word : Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:52 pm  

We have done this one already, mate is not a navy rank it is a title attached to a job, a bit like the captain, that is a role not a rank.
The first mate is next in chain of command to the Capt on board a naval vessel.

Re: The M word : Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:28 pm  

Mate is a Navy position/job/status...... but not rank and one not to be used when talking about a tough contact sport like RL (Add in RAF to that)

Edited for Mickie's sanity

Re: The M word : Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:40 pm  

Official attendance declared as 653.

Poor but not as dismal as I expected.