Amazing innit?

A town with a poulation not that much bigger than ours.

They win the Championship and are allowed to take their rightful place in the top division.

Now you can say a lot of negative things about football, but you can also say it will never be as bent as Rugby League.

100% right! good luck to Burnley as well.

I don't know.

RL has it's problems but Soccer is as bent as a 9 bob note in so many ways.

They do however don't change winning things and allow the best teams to progress THROUGH RESULTS ON THE FIELD!!

That I will admit is where they beat RL into a pulp!!

I've never been a burnley fan, but one thing they DO have is the support of their local community. I heard summat today about them having the highest level of hometown support in football, in terms of the percentage of the town that turns out for games.
Be nice if we could tap into how they've achieved that, eh?!

We've managed it before to an extent.

Problem is we have to battle against the cynicism created by being crapped on in 95 (thanks RFL ) and by the drawbridge being pulled up, dependant on some highly dubious points system (again, thanks to the rfl).

I'm not sure how the club can really sell itself under those conditions, but they're giving it a hell of a go.

It'd be nice if they can find a way to return to the heady days of 'Cougar Power'! I agree they are trying, but I think there could be a market to tap into in the outlying districts. We don't see much publicity for Cougars in Silsden, for instance. As someone on here said, it's difficult to see what else they can do, though.
Posters? A free pint?

...or if anyone from the club is reading this, if they give me a free shirt I'll dance around outside the co-op for an hour or two on sunday morning...

Morning

the T shirt is very temptin as i would be there with camera just to see you dancing around, anyway re Silsden if i were to get posters etc done would someone offer to go round and put them up not just in Silsden but other areas.
he workforce is so stretched with doing stuff in town and the schools programme and most of the guys are working 6 day weeks so if we can have some help then i would get the posters done straight away.

Give me a call at the office if you can help, 606044

Thanks, Helen

I can see to it that they get distributed round silsden for you Helen, if you want me to call in for some let me know.

I could get some put up round Crosshills, Sutton, Glusburn and Cowling, just give them to Rachel and she will pass them on to me.

How useful would it be to your club if you ,Fax,Hunslet,Doosbury and Batley all paid [ Via RFL funding for one ' marketing ' person each

So you would then have a team of 5 people available to each club for either one day a week or better still two days a week before a home match to get into your town centres/supermarkets/schools to push your upcoming games

Yes you would need a bit of money to offer deals to promote family tickets and the like

But the point being it is very difficult just having one person trying to ' DO ' everything

Having a team of say 5 motivated people controlled by either a club manager or better still a RFL funded marketing expert with responsablility for and to the 5 clubs in the area would be a much better idea surely

Communication , collaboration and inspiration is what is needed , your club led the RL world a few years back

Maybe it is the time to do it again

That's great thanks i will get some printed off asap.

Cheers

Sos Sabena, I have been internetless for a while, and didn't see your post. I would also be more than happy to try and boost the cougar profile in Silsden, with posters in shops and so on.
I don't know if Mr. Briss has been contacted yet, I'll work on it with him if you like.
I know my cousin's interested..!