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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: fuertes on October 02, 2008, 02:06:27 PM
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What was the attendance for this then? Sounds like it was pretty abysmal.
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Where was the game promoted other than through the Alty website?
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Got a big plug Sunday morning from Jimmy Wagg on Radio Manchester.
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Fair enough I suppose but Sunday morning was a bit late in the day for publicity. Other than Alty fans I doubt many people were aware the event was even taking place.
I'm not knocking the organisers or their respective causes because I know a lot of hard work went into it.
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The Goodwins bus in Hale Barns had it written on the side.
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Unfortunately, this Charity Match was also to help towards Altrincham's Fund Raising. There were very few Altrincham fans there. So this is more money we've got to raise somewhere else.
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What was the attendance for this then? Sounds like it was pretty abysmal.
The attendance was about 230 it was adervetised on the fixture boards outside the ground and all Goodwins coaches had posters on the sides and back
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i told friends about it.
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How many was there last year?
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How many was there last year?
i heard the whole away end was full, i didn't go. not sure on an exact number though.
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Unfortunately, these are difficult times for people financially and we seem to continually ask the same people to put their hands in their pockets, which with the best will in the world is going to mean people pick and choose which events they attend/support. Some people can't even afford to attend every first team fixture at the moment and (as I believe was mentioned at the supporters group meeting) it is imperative that we look to cast our net wider in terms of the people we try to involve in our fundraising activities.
Like I said above, I realise a lot of hard work went into putting this event on but the bulk of the publicity was aimed at regular Alty fans which was always going to have a limited response.
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Like I said above, I realise a lot of hard work went into putting this event on but the bulk of the publicity was aimed at regular Alty fans which was always going to have a limited response.
Not wanting to start a fight but there was only about 30 Alty fans thier the other 200 must have seen the game advertised somewhere
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Good marketing is not rocket science, you just have to reach people. Posters at the ground, banners on buses and a quick plug on Radio Mcr is not really getting there. Posters all over the area, approaches to schools and regular plugs on the more popular local radio stations plus a mention or two on the local TV news would have made a difference. Bearing in mind the cause involved an approach to major cancer charities wouldn't have done any harm either. These people know how to do this stuff.
Was it even in the Messenger?
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That's fair enough Darren, I'm not falling out with anyone.
I just don't see why the fans of the club should be frowned upon for the low attendance. Everyone is skint at the moment, it's as simple as that and the same people can only do so much.
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Like Alty365 said, we are in hard times, People just can't afford all these extra fundraising events, it's hard enough trying to get the money together to follow the team home and away which is a lot of peoples priority. I've supported lots of fundraising ideas over the years, but with a mortgage to pay and a team to follow up and down the country, it just isn't as easy as it used to be.
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5 mins of thinking has me come up with another idea, this was planned a while back, cricket has just finished.
Asking Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire say to publicise this......who knows?
Utd and City to run an advert across their scoreboards.....yes they may refuse but for such a cause, they would be wise not to.
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Like Alty365 said, we are in hard times, People just can't afford all these extra fundraising events, it's hard enough trying to get the money together to follow the team home and away which is a lot of peoples priority. I've supported lots of fundraising ideas over the years, but with a mortgage to pay and a team to follow up and down the country, it just isn't as easy as it used to be.
Perfectly valid point Pork Pie, I just think the target audience should have been wider than Alty's fanbase and advertised accordingly. Perhaps a more generous split than 50-50 charity wise would help too.
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Whilst raising money for cancer is a worthy cause, most people just don't like celebrity football matches.
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I thought last years game was better publicised by far than this years game (am i wrong in thinking it got tv plugs?). Think there was maybe 200-250 there this year as opposed to around 600-700 last year.
Whilst i went to both games, as other people have said, it is hard enough trying to afford to go to home games and many away games so that will probably be why people had this low on there priorities.