Perfect summary Chico. Youve said it all there mate.

Eloquent as always Chico.

Plenty of info there to digest/ponder.

I must admit to being one of those who still believed the 2 operations to be under the control of one team. Who actually runs (owns) The Willows nowadays ?



It's a real pity that this hasn't taken off, as now we're left with just the rugby, and that fare is fast becoming increasingly hard to swallow.



Bigpev has championed a move to Sunday matches with a carnival type atmosphere pre and post match. Considering what has transpired, perhaps this too would also be difficult to organise, and considered a financial non-starter.



To me, it's all another clear indication that all energies and ideas are now being routed towards the new stadium and the hopes firmly pinned on it. Question is, will there be any fanbase left to entertain when we finally move to Barton

That's a great and very informative post mate.

Quality Gaz but the only surprise is it lasted just the one game usually the bulls*it promises just peter out as the season does .



No I take that back there really is no surprise.

I thought the rugby side was one company and the Willows another.



Mrs Wilkinson runs the willows variety centre with her daughter it's main function is a business not there to support the rugby club

So Gaz is suggesting that Mr and Mrs Wilkinson are at logger-heads then??

But surely supporting the rugby club can be beneficial to their business?

At the moment for me it holds no attraction pre or post-match so I go elsewhere - how long before more & more people do the same?

Apart the from the barmaid there wasnothing of any note in the club last Friday, I can see the church getting busier again before long.



Surely the showing of a video and haveing a few fringe and academy players milling about the chat with the fans costs begger all but can only be seen as a positive thing, how come we the fans seem to be able to suggest better ideas to help promote the club than the people who the club actually pay???.



If the marketing and promotions department fancy coming and running a car hire office for a couple of weeks i'd feel confident I would do at least the same high quality job that they do at present.



Think it's about time we had a thread on here with =#FF0000SENSIBLE suggestions to the club for marketing and promotion that can be used for everyones benefit.

The marketing lot could have a month teaching my lot and i would happily stand in and see what i could do

Do the Marketing Department do anything!!!!



Because as far as I can see they do Feck all to promote the club or any SL games.

Why don't we (ie. Shirley?!) invite 'the marketing department' to the next Forever Reds meeting so that some of these ideas can be presented and discussed?