Like has been said you I and Leighleigh would prefer Saturday evenings but the club has to be practical and if playing Sunday afternoon means selling more season tickets than relying on people turning up on a particular day I think the club is right on this one.



DetroitSoul also makes an extremely valid point when people who have stopped going for whatever reason hear that Dewsbury have thrashed us at home or Gateshead or Batley they are not likely to come back are they franchising or not !

Not a chance I'm afraid Ste, Wigan did a survey about the matchdays and Friday was by far and away the overall preference. Coin it in from corporate as well which simply doesn't happen for a Sunday game.

Good news for me with the Sunday 3pm, and I'll be getting a season ticket for the first time since we used to get a free McDonalds on the way home from Hilton Park with the ticket! Probably wont be able to make all the games with my work schedule but if the club is making an effort, suppose we all can too!

Thing is Matt , Leigh dont quite have the same ' pull ' for corporate that the SL clubs do , it is less important to us

3pm Sundays is good for me

how do you ask the "fans" that dont go?

IMHO the ONLY thing that will bring more people in is success, you have your "hard core" fans that turn up now then you have your floaters who will only turn up to watch a winning side.

You can give all the freebies in the world but people won't turn up if your side isnt successful.

Before you ask the fans that don't go, which day they would prefer, there are a couple of other steps to take, surely?



i.e. Identify those who don't go and ask them why they don't go.



My bet is that reasons other than the game day, will be to the forefront!

And that won't change unless the kick off times are a little more receptive to entertaining clients. We've seen an above average crowd every time we've played on a Saturday evening - to me, the facts don't lie.

What are the facts though, Matt? According to the Club records our only Saturday home games, in the past four seasons, have been the two Toulouse home fixtures - and I can't see them having been all that good.

Didn't we get nearly 2,000 for the Toulouse game last year - ie something approaching 500 more than the Keighley, Dewsbury games et al? I think that's proof in itself, personally.

If I was a guest of someone who wished to impress me and lighten my wallet, I would much rather he did it on Friday or Saturday night rather than Sunday afternoon.

Possibly, but about the same as the Sheffield & Whitehaven Sunday home games this season, and they don't bring many with them.



It's always going to be one of these decisions that don't please everyone, I'm afraid.