Hull Kingston Bronco

140th anniversary shirt from Rovers… https://hullkr.co.uk/the-spirit-of-the-boilermakers/

Nope. Everyone played rugby, it’s a shared heritage and as much ‘ours’ as it is Rugby Unions. Both games were the same in 1895 at and right after the split, and both have radically evolved their rules since then. The Union sport we say today is not the sport played in 1894, any more than League is.

100% this

“Tell me you know nothing about marketing without telling me you know nothing about marketing”

Er, sunshine, the £1 tickets were for us Rovers members to give to friends & family, which we do at one specific game per season as one of the membership benefits we all pay for. So I imagine we all feel pretty happy about the people we’ve given them to using them. Have you managed to work out your basic error yet?

Don’t give ‘em ideas. There are some people on here who’d actually do that

I love Super League as much as the next man, unless I’m sat next to Dutoni, but there’s no doubt the quality of sport on offer in the NRL is a level above. The whole weekend was great, well, apart from my mighty Sea Eagles doing their usual “let’s start our season in May” thing but hey ho you can’t have it all

Marketing Podcast, coming soon: In this weeks first instalment, Sir Kev tells us he doesn’t understand how sampling works as a new customer acquisition strategy. Later in the episode he’ll explain how he’s confused about how member retention can be increased by value-add bundles including one “bring a friend for £1” special match per season. Next week, join us again for Sir Kev’s investigation into how discretionary spend of £15 per head on food, drink and merchandise could create incremental revenue even when tickets are discounted. Watch as he scratches his head, before finally admitting “it’s all a bit complicated this stuff isn’t it, why don’t we just not do anything and hope for the best?”, before shrugging his shoulders and getting the last bus home

Don’t think so. Know they’ve held a few tickets back for anyone that wants to buy a season ticket in the meantime, so might be some last minutes ones released a day or so before the match I’d expect.

Just over 10,500 these days, now we’ve mothballed the south end for the Craven Streat food & drinks area. …not that I’d have ever let my worst enemy buy one of the 1,500 south terrace tickets when we used it anyway, worst view in the league (unless it was a Hull FC match, and wind & rain was forecast )

Hull KR have sold out the home match against Wire in 3 weeks already - some clever “bring a friend” marketing to members did its stuff, should be a great atmosphere

I don’t think this is a Sky versus C4 debate really… Sky will likely see the limited C4 coverage as positive, bring more people to the sport that they show 3 games a week of, it’s good free publicity for what still remains “their” product. C4 will never be able to invest as much in our game as Sky do, so there’s no non-Sky option - certainly not terrestrial at least. Both parties know that, as does Super League. This is symbiotic, and hopefully the mixed model and momentum that brings can be maintained. Certainly 2022 is a unique opportunity for us, with all this building up to a BBC-covered World Cup at the end of the season. Fun times. Raise profile with that and both Sky and C4 will benefit in 2023… just as we’re negotiating the next set of media rights. Imagine that right after an England victory? Hope we don’t c*ck this up.

…and if he doesn’t mention 1999 in the Nou Camp if any games close at the end that’ll be a miracle

It’s been several years, and you can well imagine he’s been punished for his behaviour in many ways, so hardly consequence-free. From his twitter feed you can see he’s given up the booze and made changes in his life, I reckon everyone deserves a 2nd chance? Otherwise we’re all doomed on some level

I think the council seem pretty committed to facilitating this move, which hopefully means Moor Lane can become a reduced-size platform to rebuild from

Wouldn’t surprise me. Still hardly a comparison though - and I’d expect Rovers were usually ahead of their peers in that league at the time, despite everything that was going on Regardless, my original note was made out of empathy, in-part having been there (especially watching the Broncos decline from a semi-inside role too), God knows why anyone got so bloomin’ defensive about it

Nope, although I remember a game against Barrow when it didn’t look far off. A club going bust in the 2nd and 3rd division having not been in SL is hardly a comparison to a recent Grand Finalist with 25 years’ Sky TV money though is it….

Yeah great benchmark… sorry, just to clarify, was that when we’d been in SuperLeague for most of the prior 25 years like Salford have now? [….waits patiently for honest response…] Mate, my original comment was from genuine concern and empathy, not snide points-scoring “my clubs better than your club” mindless nonsense, so wind your neck in.

What’s more depressing in here is the reference to not being able to sell 1,000 season tickets…. Really?

Yes, custom-sized

Yes, it doesn’t take a massive budget to stand out at L1 level. Can see them in the harder-to-game Championship pretty quickly.

No that’s not enough for me. Cornwall want and need home games in order to build the club and a rugby league community. If they won’t play down there, then they need to move into a more appropriate league for their circumstances and ambitions.

Clubs who can’t afford to, or don’t want to, travel to Cornwall just once per year shouldn’t be in the semi-pro League One. Resign and join the NCL. It’s absolutely a reasonable decision to make if that’s the level on which you can comfortably operate, not judging at all (the travel costs are real, I get it), but for God’s sake don’t hang around here holding other people back. Even more importantly, whilst you make the decision about what sort of club you want to be, do us all a favour and stop running the game down with your negativity, and making the rest of us look like we share your embarrassing small-mindedness.

The responses on Twitter from their fans are solid gold

No hoop = Salford shirt. They’ve done that a couple of times, and God only knows what they were thinking. Rovers is either white with a red band, or red with a blue band… I honestly don’t understand why rugby league clubs sacrifice their brand identity so easily, can you imagine Newcastle United wearing a home shirt without black & white stripes, or QPR without blue & white hoops? Just so short-sighted