Isn't that the arguement that "The Flat Earth Society" use when we pitch up at their Gaff in our Taxi/Minibus instead of our thousands??

I for one wouldn't have been able to afford to go on Friday. (minimum wage, currently on short term working and travel costs from Northampton).

But now I have my tickets so I'll be able to cheer on the lads from the South Stand, have a beer, make a small donation to the Hopson Memorial Fund for their beneficeries and watch 2 games of RL cutosey of this ES/QRL promotion.

And maybe it'll encourage some Cas fans who may not of travlled to watch their team do so.

If they didn't want the Cas fans to enter then perhaps they should have just ran the advert in the paper and not published it on the website.

Anyway, got my free tickets because i am a tight northerner.

Sums it up.

Oh dear. I look forward to welcoming the Castleford fans that have paid to get in and are supporting the game of Rugby League in the South.

If anyone has a couple of spares, could they PM me, a couple of my mates are tempted.

Ta.

Did you get a free ticket?

Just reading on the Castleford forum that Harlequins have organized it so Castleford fans can swap their South Stand tickets and go in the North Stand



You couldn't make it up. This offer has descended into a farce. As usual. Our club is a shambles.

I bet 80% of Castleford supporters are in on free tickets on Friday night. If I can't get hold of a spare for my mates, they will have to pay £15. Makes sense.

Funny - didn't notice anywhere in the paper where it said - Cas fans cannot apply

Neither have I seen in this thread any jibes at Harlequin fans who have no doubt taken the opportunity to gain free tickets for the match.

I presume Harlequins will not be complaining about an 8K attendance. The extra revenue from the bars etc would be greater then the revenue from a normal 3K attendance.

Superb.

Does our club even get any of the bar takings?

Cas fans please ignore Listers rants every club has an idiot who thinks they know more than anyone else and he is ours. Lister loves to think he is the only intellegent being and fools himself into believing he can cast a rod when in fact it is an aside to being downright rude, unfortunatley for the rest of us Lister thinks he is our club fisherman - just ignore him hopefully if everyone does he will go away.

I am a Quins fan adn say to you please come down and have a great evening, we know only too well the trials and expense of a friday game, long travel hours, unpaid leave or holiday, petrol expenses, food etc so why not come and support your team with a free ticket.

I swear some people would advocate everyone coming in to watch our club for free, while the club goes down the toilet due to the embarrassing way it is ran. The club is a business, not a charity.

I look forward to our away supporters being rewarded with free tickets when they pay £x to travel North.

I don't understand. What possible benefits could this give our club? I have somehow ended up on Wigan's and Huddersfield mailing list, I just ignore their e-mails. I can't see them offering me a free ticket to the DW Stadium to watch us get tubbed.

I confess i know bugger all about this, it was just a question.

Thing is though, our match tickets are quite cheap enough already (£15 to watch the game from a comfy seat in a great stadium with good entertainment laid on (apart from the rugby!

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I can't see how a lot more Cas fans will travel because of this offer.

Quins fans get nowt from the northern clubs and our travelling fans expenses are £100 ish every other week.(wakey was £20 to stand on a grotty old terrace with a poor view).

Our stewards will be so pleased that there willl be all these extra Cas fans. Those I've spoken to reckon Cas and Hull fans are the most (ahem) challenging of all the visiting teams. Mind you, they normally fight amongst themselves.

For a Forum Mod you have a serious chip on your shoulder......

Think a bit deeper, would 5,000 Tickets all have been snapped up by Quins Fans, on a Friday night, I doubt it.....

Cas will bring down (say) 1,000 fans (again Friday night, but you know us Northerners, we love bringing our wealth South and squandering it.....), some will have already bought Tickets, plus Kids who get in on Season Tickets, amazing isn't it, how many people in Cas have the Internet (or electricity) to be able to take advantage of the Ticket offer.

Great idea for the club to do the promotion, don't criicise Cas fans for taking advantage, I'll be there with my Southern cousin, free Tickets in hand, possibly with 2 spare, happy to pass them on to you. One of Cas best wins at the Rhinos was made sweeter with free Tickets....

Yeah sorry, was only wondering what you meant.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder at all, I am frustrated at how badly this offer has been executed and how our club persisit in screwing things up, costing them money. You must understand that obviously this offer was not intended to bring any benefits to Castleford supporters whatsoever, but an attempt to bring in new supporters in the South, and perhaps encourage a few Quins fans who don't come every week to come to the match. This offer could end up COSTING us money.

Thank you for the offer of the spares, I definetely have 1 friend who wants to come along.

There is no way my friends will pay £14 on the train and £15 to get into a 3/4 empty stadium to watch a team they know are getting whipped every week at the moment.

I agree with the rest of what you say though.

Pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

So id they paid £50 to get in, we'd be top of SL?

One thing that may come from this is a decent atmosphere, another thing would it be worth taking a financial hit for one whole season to improve crowds by offering silly offers to attract the masses (preferably in London)?

Yes they do.

Good. All of them?

After overheads

Can't speak for now...especially with you 50% VAT and 66% TAX etc etc...(you voted them in...stop whinging), but I used to work on 8.5% wages, 30% cost of booze, 8.5% running costs (light, heat etc), 20% tax and 33% profit (rough figures....pedants please note).
So, if this model is still right, about a pound a pint in profit.
Food etc? Not sure. I think the "franchises/outlets" pay to be there.......but as Quins never know if we will get 1,700 or 5,500.....it may well be that these people pay for the year up front. We get nothing of their takings.

Bottom Line is that like it or not, the club has to do something to get people to games. If 1,000 sets of tickets only means that 300 NEW LONDON FANS turn up, with 600 cas fans on freebies and 1,600 Quins occasionals tuen up, then so be it....but if Listy wants to have a pop, then it should be at the last group.....of which, If I still lived in the UK, [uI WOULD BE ONE[/u.

NB: Just a thought. If possible...and if the East Stand is Full...then I would get some photos of this, get them in the Standard and repeat this offer again for Salford at the end of the month......as well as filling the North Stand with Kids...3 sides full would be a great thing to see on SKY TV