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Hempstead Gaz

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Don't you think our crowds would dwindle if we played 20 odd miles away. Talk of us getting 2,000 - 2,500 is pie in the sky. If we can't get more than 1600 for a game like yesterday with our unbeaten run then I can't ever see the club go full time.

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Must admit....thought your attendance would have been a tad higher.

 

Ironically....considering a few of you were saying it was good for the Fleet to be the Conf's "secret squirrels"... the double page spread in the NLP this morning looked more prominent than previous weeks. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

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I'm sure that attendances would be higher if the home matches have high profile advertising.

 

Years ago, most paper and fag shops in Gravesend had posters advertising forthcoming home ties, these posters were about 18"x24" in size in the Fleet colours.

 

How about it! Get the pubs and clubs to post to thier punters

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my draw just dropped then.

are you really saying you dont have posters around the town? [anymore??]

 

If so, no wonder.

 

There's me thinking you had explored all the "reasonably economic" publicity tricks....

 

sorry, but jeez. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

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With the [***!!***] we have had to put up with over the past couple of years and still putting up with and considering the distance to ASHFORD and a lot of us being working people having difficulty getting to the match in time whereas previously, even at dover we could I think 200 odd is a realistic figure, probably equivalent to your 1600 at home to the mighty BULLS. Was extremely surprised to see such a low figure for a game of that stature considering their draw of crowds elsewhere and with your current good form.Back at HARTSDOWN I could guarantee things would be mightily different with our attendances.

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Didn't we try this at the start of last season?

 

I remember taking posters to Gravesend Rugby Club and to the Bat and Ball.

 

Is there any evidence that they had any effect?

 

I think our poor start last season negated any good work our pre season publicity campaign made.

 

However this season could be a different story, we are making the right headlines, we now have a good home run of high profile and local games coming up prior to Xmas, in which all teams should bring decent away support ( Only exception is Leigh) .

 

So now could be the time to crank up the publicity , what harm can it do.

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Was extremely surprised to see such a low figure for a game of that stature considering their draw of crowds elsewhere and with your current good form.Back at HARTSDOWN I could guarantee things would be mightily different with our attendances.


You mean you might get the 600 part of that figure? <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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I popped over to Gravesend on the ferry in the close season. Thought I'd catch up with the place as I hadn't visited for a while and the town has mightily improved since my last visit, imho. enough to think I'd like to move there when my daughter's finished her schooling.

Anyway, walking round the town I noticed just how many shops, bars, restaurants there are now and thought "what a cracking goldmine this is for the club".

Cost a bit more, but red & white posters [so they stand out] should be in every other shop window. It's the concentration of posters, rather than isolated ones which have the greatest effect.

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According to the Hereford Forum they had 244 fans on saturday which meant that there were 1,434 Gravesend fans.

 

This compares to 1,318 (1,756-438) for the Stevenage match. When you take into account the fact that there were no Premiership or Championship matches that week-end I don't think that it's a bad result.

 

Now if we can just push the home crowd over the 1,500 mark.

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Daggers should bring a few more than 244 next Tuesday, hopefully nearer 400. Add that to the 1300 or so we hopefully should get will bring the crowd up to about 1700.

More importantly, our average attendance is now 1462 from 4 games and we need a crowd of 1652 to average 1500, which is a significant improvement on this time last season.

Credit to Andy and the lads for that.

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