Last night was a great start to the season and long may the team perform on the field, but just a few points to ponder..
Last night was a great night out, on a lovely night. Rather than hit out at the people that stayed away, instead I would like to pose the question, why werent they encouraged to attend.
Apart from the signposts around town, the promotion for the game was abysmal to say the least. New supporters are not being encouraged to attend, and this is a problem.
Time was players would go to schools, young lads (and girls) would see players coming from Longford Town, would identify with them, get a free pass or two and as soon as you can say xbox 360 they were nagging their parents to go out to Mullolagher (because thats how long ago it seems to have been)
How much would it have cost to market the game in schools throughout the week. A player or two to come out, talk to the class, and hand out a few free passes? How much would it have cost to have gotten a face painter out their for half an hour last night to meet the children? Surely every effort needs to be made to encourage supporters to go out and see for themselves what the rest of us enjoyed last night, and more importantly keep them coming. Having went from watching the United Wolves match to Flancare, there was no comparison in the excitement on show (and i'm not talking about Scholes' winner)
Simple things like ball boys and girls at a match will even encourage 10-20 new people out, and if they spend on average 10-15e thats nearly a tenth of our weekly playing budget..
Half time games.. Penalty shoot outs.. it all gets people involved, enjoying their night and wanting to come back..
The usual arguments will come up, thats its not a child minding facility, if your so mad about it why dont you do something about it etc etc but they are just excuses that are always thrown and nothing is done by the people who should be doing them jobs that their title suggests..
Discuss
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Oh and the scoreboard. Can we get that fixed??
