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Three of my grandsons have joined although can't get to too many games.The two whose dad is a Huddersfield fan were amazed to get a Christmas card each. One of them also had his name on the score board when it was his birthday. All of these things raised comments and they both want to go to another game this season.
SM I'm not sure if my dads spoke to you but I was told about how Huddersfield are trying to attract new fans from a young age and I thought it was a great idea.I was speaking my missus, sisters boyfriend and he and the sisters son are Man Utd fans but at their primary school and others from what I can gather, town have given away vouchers to all the kids where they can get in for £3 and the adult that they go with can get in for £10. Now I thought this was a great idea as he's already said he's going to take him to some of the games they had left this season and thought we could maybe implement a similar strategy. Worth a shot I guess?
Excellent work. Standing in the SS its clear to see just by looking at the East on a matchday the kind of impact its having. It's been obvious for years a club like ours will benefit from this type of thing more than others. We're competing against teams in the region, against a kid putting on a liverpool/Man U shirt in the play ground, against entrenched supporting lineages. It will be a long hard battle over decades but it is genuinely nice to see a practical strategy put in place.The slightly worrying thing for me is some of the things said in this thread. Firstly the need to use a success story from the club to rake up old debates. Is that really necessary? Secondly, the idea that because one thing is a success, another approach can therefore not be a success. That is an incredibly naive viewpoint.The long-term issue now, as I'm sure those actually working at the club know, is retainment. The headline 'success' is actually the programes/strategies themselves. The figure of 25% increase in first-time fans points to the long-term battle we face. If an increasing % of stagnant crowds (as ours broadly are) are comprised of new faces it worryingly suggests we're either not retaining those fans or we are losing existing fans. That will be the long-term test but at the moment I'm certainly optimistic about it.
Quote from: BigKeif on February 03, 2017, 07:43:01 pmSM I'm not sure if my dads spoke to you but I was told about how Huddersfield are trying to attract new fans from a young age and I thought it was a great idea.I was speaking my missus, sisters boyfriend and he and the sisters son are Man Utd fans but at their primary school and others from what I can gather, town have given away vouchers to all the kids where they can get in for £3 and the adult that they go with can get in for £10. Now I thought this was a great idea as he's already said he's going to take him to some of the games they had left this season and thought we could maybe implement a similar strategy. Worth a shot I guess?Hi BigKeif,I remember having a discussion about something similar. And we do something on a match day that is very close to that. In addition we still do the tickets for attendance scheme whereby school kids who have 100% school attendance get free match day tickets. We are making great progress in this area as demonstrated by the numbers and the continuing Family Excellence Awards, one of only 6 clubs in the country.