we wont get any numbers from the club on how many we have sold but think we should be aiming for 3,000?

cas have sold 3500 upto now.

Richard Thewlis indicates that sales are mirroring last years, looking like coming in at approx 4000. In league weekly interview.

Target for this season is 8000 home average (which he would be 'delighted with'.

Good interview, worth seeking out.

any links?

thats great news, prices have gone up and sales are about the same as last year when we won the LLS so thats very good after a relatively poor season

Sorry mate, no link. In the 1st December issue of league weekly. There's a 2 page interview.

Some points from it;

3 community officers starting in January, with aim of developing fan base etc.

Current crop of youngsters felt within the club to be strongest since cudjoe - Bruno - jerry.

Club target to be a top 4 team consistantly as minimum.

Club were not fussed about world club championship. It would have cost club to enter. Interested observers of how it develops.

Targets for 2015 and onwards are to be playing in big finals, and they would "to attract an average home gate of 8000 supporters next season would be a wonderful achievement for us".

Club attracts players much easier now. "We don't ring them any more, they ring us".

Recruitment all done for next season.

thanks for that

good news about the community officers starting in jan

i agree about the youngsters, we have seen connor and johnson come through and expect to see the likes of dickinson next

so it was the club that didnt want to compete in the world club challenge not the rfl who changed the rules!!
bit disappointed with this from the club, shows lack of ambition? they say they want to compete in the big games and win yet dont want to be involved in this. But sure it was down to money in the end and wanting to spend elsewhere.

think we have already achieved being a top 4 team in the league, we all know its the play offs now where we need to make an impact.

good piece on leroy cudjoe in rugby league world magazine too this month, saying macnamara said he looked tired and needed a rest as to why he wasnt selected for england... he certainly needed a rest did cudjoe, expect to see him back to his best this time which is very exciting!
Cudjoe has his theory why we lose in the play offs, saying we dont compete at a high intensity week in week out, not putting games to bed and playing for 80mins at our pace.. then we fail to raise our game like the other big teams when it matters.
worth a read

Was a glorified friendly really seen as a 'big game' though ? yes it would be a novelty thing for the fans to see an NRL team but there was nothing at stake ans it was going to cost us ? excellent decision in my view !

there is cases for being in it and cases for not being in it.. for me id have liked to have been in it, we earned the right with the 3rd place finish, good exposure for the club too..we always need this with our lack of support.

anyway the big clubs are in it apart from leeds, the usual grand final and cup winners are in..we arent. we could have changed that.

I'm sure if there was a trophy or something to be won the club would have thought differently though, ultimately it is a high profile friendly game with nothing to play for. and one that we would have had to pay for the pleasure of hosting !!

A real shame we turned down the opportunity to play against a top NRL side. Would loved to have seen that match. Maybe it is a glorified friendly, but the other top English and Australian teams think its worth while. I honestly believe it would have helped with the players gaining a bit more big match experience too as well as raising the clubs profile.

1 of the top teams has the chance to be crowned World Club champions !!!!! the other 2 are rich enough to be able to fork out the money for this without it affecting their budget, at a guess i'd say it would be a chunk out of ours ..or were people expecting Ken Davy to simply pay for it himself.

And as for the Aussies thinking it's worthwhile....well they can only be bothered to send their 8th and 11th placed teams so hardly their 'top' ones.

Thing is in the "other code" when the European Cup started non of the big English clubs wanted to know - all giving the same reasons, but it made a lot of money

Now it's a massive comp that has European wide coverage (and of truly dire games)

The world club champs could be massive - just needs the English clubs to win

Just to clarify, the article doesn't indicate the giants were ever in a position to turn it down, just that Thewlis wasn't upset to not be involved.

Still that's Brisbane or St George? Would have loved to see us face them. As for KD footing the bill. Then maybe yes, but he foots the bill for all sorts as it stands and this could have helped in the long term finances if it was well marketed and got some newbies in. Anyway, its all ifs and buts because we are not competing.

Ken Davy spoke to 4Fs about it, coming out soon, and the way he spoke strongly suggested we were offered the chance!

yes we qualified as to being the 3rd ranked team.

when we turned it down the rfl put the spin on it that warrington were now the 3rd ranked team



like i have said arguments for and against but i feel we are missing out.

would have been great to welcome the likes of Brisbane Broncos to our stadium and a boost, the marketing team could have had lots to work with.. if they got it right! its also backed by sky sports so we will hear lots about it but will be sat at the sidelines when we should have taken what was ours to compete it, small club mentality

Maybe the marketing team/club realised it was too big a job for them ? either way i aren't too bothered, soon enough we will be playing an Aussie side for the real one not a sideshow friendly to it !

if the club couldn't market and make money out of a game like that then they should pack up

lets hope you're right and we win the Grand final then. But then will we say it will cost too much for us to play the game, god help us if we have to go to the Australia to play it, prob let wigan go instead

I'm sure the club wouldn't turn down the chance to play in a game in which there was a trophy on offer !

At least we could very well win the infirmary cup this year

From a harsh point of view it's perhaps best for the Giants not to go

1. It's a lot of money for the club to recoup and let's not deny our marketing team is either terminally constricted or they really are useless

2. Let's be honest our form in high intensity games is not the best and a spanking at the hands of an Aussie team would be hard to recover from in terms of selling us to non converts

3. In continuing from 2 I'd rather see 3 English wins to boost the games profile and international setup - the clubs competing best represent that

4. Its a big pre-season distraction in this first year of a new league format, I'd rather see us start the season well and secure top 8

Most clubs use plastic cards now and not a bingo ticket booklet like something from the 50s but we are talking Huddersfield now, do you also include your turnstyle staff in your official attendances ?

He he, good one, bet you're writing the jokes for the crackers in Hull this year !!

I'm not from Hull. Just thought I'd pass comment on the unprovoked slander to a polite innocent question to someone from Hull by a dullard from gods waiting room.