Re: Sundays it is! : Tue Aug 19, 2014 7:35 pm  

sky own the game paid for in full. they need to fill air time the clubs and the RFL couldn't sign the new contract any quicker if they tried.us as fans will see games being played at the time and days that will suite sky this and the new structure and with more games could mean a increase in the price of season tickets. i can see sales going down not up

Re: Sundays it is! : Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:58 pm  

Back to topic about Sundays. I'm one fan who would like a Change to Fridays. Think it's better atmosphere at night games. Sky will mess us about less. Younger crowd more likely to come on a Friday night. The main reason of course is I have to work alot of Sundays but always have Fridays off. Would a season of testing Friday night games really put fans off? I for one would be an extra person on a constant basis to attend games, how many fans would we lose?

Re: Sundays it is! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:14 am  

DropGoalGiant wrote:

Back to topic about Sundays. I'm one fan who would like a Change to Fridays. Think it's better atmosphere at night games. Sky will mess us about less. Younger crowd more likely to come on a Friday night. The main reason of course is I have to work alot of Sundays but always have Fridays off. Would a season of testing Friday night games really put fans off? I for one would be an extra person on a constant basis to attend games, how many fans would we lose?

Clearly more than if we switched to Fridays going by the survey! You only have to look around the family stand on a Friday night to see all the usually full ST holder seats that are empty.

Mad_Jack_Mcmad wrote:

Unbeliever wrote:

As I said when I filled in the survey, does it really matter when Sky keep moving the games...and low and behold...

GIANTS V SAINTS SELECTED FOR SKY TV

Round 27 Game to take place on Friday 12th September, kick off 8.00pm

This is what annoys me.

Looking at the last 3 weeks fixtures it should be obvious to anyone that Leeds/Saints, Warrington/Huddersfield, Leeds/Wigan, Warrington/Saints, Warrington/Wigan and Hudds/Saints would all be top 6 games. Sky could have announced they were televising these at the start of the season. Everyone would then know what was going on. There is literally no need for them to leave it this late in the season to announce these games.

I suspect the reason is they didn't expect the bottom end to be already done and dusted.

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Saints is a home game Jools

I know Daz-was having two rants for the price of one!

Re: Sundays it is! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:02 pm  

DropGoalGiant wrote:

Back to topic about Sundays. I'm one fan who would like a Change to Fridays. Think it's better atmosphere at night games. Sky will mess us about less. Younger crowd more likely to come on a Friday night. The main reason of course is I have to work alot of Sundays but always have Fridays off. Would a season of testing Friday night games really put fans off? I for one would be an extra person on a constant basis to attend games, how many fans would we lose?

well i suppose we wont find out now, the 1000 that responded to the survey were no doubt wanting to stick to the sundays! best way to do it would be to give it a try for a season and like you say less messing about by sky if we did switch

Re: Sundays it is! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:42 pm  

DropGoalGiant wrote:

Back to topic about Sundays. I'm one fan who would like a Change to Fridays. Think it's better atmosphere at night games. Sky will mess us about less. Younger crowd more likely to come on a Friday night. The main reason of course is I have to work alot of Sundays but always have Fridays off. Would a season of testing Friday night games really put fans off? I for one would be an extra person on a constant basis to attend games, how many fans would we lose?

Well, from my little group would shrink from eight to two.

I can't go on a Friday as I'm never back from work in time. After a week at school my daughter wouldn't stay awake long enough to make it worthwhile and my wife would have to stay home to put her to bed. Replicate that across my sister, her husband and their little one and you've wiped out two generations of support.

We have enough problems getting the latent support in the town to think of the Giants as somewhere you go rather than something you watch on TV without making it damned near impossible to actually get there.

Still could be worse, a few years ago they had the harebrained idea to move kick off to 5.30 on a Sunday so it would neatly coincide with everybody's Sunday dinner.

Re: Sundays it is! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:14 pm  

It's such a difficult one as we are, of course, all heavily influenced by how much any change would impact on ourselves. Neither Friday's or Sunday's are a problem for me but purely for personal preference I prefer Friday kick offs.

My concern is the club only appear to have surveyed one group - the existing fans - and what it needed to do was consult with a number of groups. For example, not only those who already go to games but those who used to go and have stopped (someone mentioned ex-season ticket holders would be a great place to start) and those that are fans but have never been regular attendees.

I would have liked to see Fridays tried as I think we need to try something but I'm not sure the club gave itself the best chance of making an educated decision on this.

Having said that, my main concern about Friday games is that it is clear that there is already a generation of fans missing from our games but the crowds on a Sunday show that this may not be a problem with the next generation as there are a lot of kids that attend with their families and this may very well stop if Friday games are preferred. We have to be very careful that in addressing the problems of todays crowds we don't hurt ourselves in the longer term.

Re: Sundays it is! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:24 pm  

Unbeliever wrote:

It's such a difficult one as we are, of course, all heavily influenced by how much any change would impact on ourselves. Neither Friday's or Sunday's are a problem for me but purely for personal preference I prefer Friday kick offs.

My concern is the club only appear to have surveyed one group - the existing fans - and what it needed to do was consult with a number of groups. For example, not only those who already go to games but those who used to go and have stopped (someone mentioned ex-season ticket holders would be a great place to start) and those that are fans but have never been regular attendees.

I would have liked to see Fridays tried as I think we need to try something but I'm not sure the club gave itself the best chance of making an educated decision on this.

Having said that, my main concern about Friday games is that it is clear that there is already a generation of fans missing from our games but the crowds on a Sunday show that this may not be a problem with the next generation as there are a lot of kids that attend with their families and this may very well stop if Friday games are preferred. We have to be very careful that in addressing the problems of todays crowds we don't hurt ourselves in the longer term.

this .

Re: Sundays it is! : Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:01 am  

I never understood why people disliked the 5.30 sunday kick offs. It was early enough for kids to attend. It was late enough for shop workers to finish work and get there. It gave people whose other half wasn't interested opportunity to spend whole day with family and still get to the game. There'd even be a night time atmosphere early and late in the season. Always seemed like the best solution to me.

Re: Sundays it is! : Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:44 am  

think the 5.30's were just an experiment for the summer games weren't they? to be honest i didn't mind them either.

Re: Sundays it is! : Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:22 pm  

5.30 was ok IMO for the reasons given, families could even have Sunday dinner then go to the game