Quote eccles star="eccles star"The club always put money before fans I have wrote several occasions to the club and not had one reply that is why I won't waste any more money on a club that frankly needs all supporters it can get. The end of the day the franchise states you have to increase to stay in super league yet are club wants money more than supporters they don't even speak to supporters or answer letters. Sorry to say you won't get much support on friday night we have had friday nights for ages and gates have stayed the same. So why do they not listen to the average fan. They dint have the decency to contact me so why should I be bothered.
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Are you old enough to remember the UCP shops? UCP stood for United Cattle Products and they sold a lot of tripe, not as much as you come up with though.
Does a club that gives a free shirt with every season ticket put money before fans?
Does a club that has possibly the cheapest child season ticket,including a free shirt put money before fans.
Our regular party has a dozen season tickets and Friday night is the best for us as we can usually all attend the game,whereas on a Sunday due to other activities with the youngsters it is difficult for the majority of us to attend the game together, so we are better with the club going for a Friday night.
Friends prefer a Sunday but will still buy a season ticket and come when they can and whatever day was chosen some people will like it others will not, that's life.
With regards writing to the club, I have on several occasions contacted the club over various matters and replies have normally come quickly and on the odd time that a reply has not been forthcoming I have approached the person concerned personally and got the reply.
You are correct in that we need to improve our gates dramatically but we also have to increase the turnover to a figure above what we can do solely by increasing the gates and that includes the corporate side of things and if we can sell out the boxes and the dining areas there's another 1000 or so spectators before anyone comes through a turnstile.
Our recent gates have been affected by the rugby that we have played on occasions more than playing on a Friday night and hopefully the new coach and his team will improve this aspect of the club.