Originally Posted by
Sean Day
Saw plenty posters etc on my train route into Liverpool. Trouble is that it’s such a hard sell to the people of Liverpool. If they put a thousand posters up for synchronised swimming in St Helens would many of us feel inspired to go? You have to think outside the box a bit, sell it as an event - put good food and drink on, local musicians etc. Get it around the student population in the city, give them a couple of free beers with their ticket etc etc. Putting a picture of player x on a poster and asking people to come to a rugby match is going to have no impact when they have no idea who he is or any interest in the sport.
As for the day, really enjoyed the game. Grew in atmosphere as it went on. Trouble is there is no lead up to these internationals to whip up the interest. Sky don’t televise it so aren’t interested in even mentioning it and they are our only significant media outlet. Therefore it takes a game or two for people to warm to it again. Slowly we have to build the England brand up. Get the merchandise into the club shops, get players faces in programmes, rugby papers etc, people will always go for their club first but why can’t England be their second team? Lastly a proper organised calendar, we have England, Australia, NZ and Tonga now who are top class, PNG, Samoa, Fiji not a million miles behind.