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Are students marketed? What about in next door counties ie Bucks? See little of OUFC in the City no kids in kits? What should club do better? 1st class city 3rd class club
Are students marketed? What about in next door counties ie Bucks? See little of OUFC in the City no kids in kits? What should club do better? 1st class city 3rd class club
Agreed. Possibly the worst troll on here for ages.
Just f**k off.
Serious question . Growing city we need to reach out to the population to make OUFC their number 1 club
Just f**k off.
Are students marketed? What about in next door counties ie Bucks? See little of OUFC in the City no kids in kits? What should club do better? 1st class city 3rd class club
I tend to agree. Many ridiculous comments on various threads then suddenly a 'serious 'one which JuanPabloRaponi gives a very good response.He's trolling. Deliberately undermining OUFC. If you'd made the same point we could have had a debate. With him, it would be just amusing him.
I disagree with the majority of this guy's posts, but I don't see how people can argue this point? Even our marketing director says this needs to be done.
re: uni students. The club have tried lots of things, but as they have generally found, people mostly already have clubs by that stage, or are not interested in football, the return v effort/cost isn't great. They have also experimented with having merch in one of the unofficial uni merch type shops, and it didn't sell.Visit Cowley factories, leaflet drops, set up an OUFC supporters club in the Universities, Stall at the freshers weeks at the Universities, OUFC merchandise in some of the outlets flogging the Oxford University stuff. Club already does the school stuff but could do a whole lot more
re: uni students. The club have tried lots of things, but as they have generally found, people mostly already have clubs by that stage, or are not interested in football, the return v effort/cost isn't great. They have also experimented with having merch in one of the unofficial uni merch type shops, and it didn't sell.
Selling tickets to anything in Oxford (football, music gigs, theatre, etc) is hard work. Costs are high, and alternatives are close by. People have lots of alternatives to watching often mediocre football, especially when money is tighter. The one thing that would attract people (of all sorts) is success on the pitch.
re: uni students. The club have tried lots of things, but as they have generally found, people mostly already have clubs by that stage, or are not interested in football, the return v effort/cost isn't great. They have also experimented with having merch in one of the unofficial uni merch type shops, and it didn't sell.
Selling tickets to anything in Oxford (football, music gigs, theatre, etc) is hard work. Costs are high, and alternatives are close by. People have lots of alternatives to watching often mediocre football, especially when money is tighter. The one thing that would attract people (of all sorts) is success on the pitch.
Thanks @OUFCGav it’s easy for me sitting on the sidelines to assume the club have never tried various marketing , whereas they have and the club knows what does and doesn’t work
I’d target kids and the local area. The ground is hard to get to and isn’t a great experience but it’s all exciting if you’re a young boy or girl.
The one thing the club definitely might have on its side now is people involved in global brands. If they can exploit links with Singha, and Bakrie's media/new media empire, there are opportunities there.
I guess. It’s tricky to get there from somewhere like Headington without drivingIt’s not that hard to get to is it. Just off the ring road, u don’t see thousands of parents not going to the cinema or bowling cos “it’s hard to get to”. The biggest free car park in the football league. Football special busses, with more being put on next season
sure I read somewhere the club had been using estate agent/ housing agent to give out leaflets and discounts for people moving to the area. May have been in the ox mail
ah cheers. knew I'd read it somewhere.I think that was in one of the financial/marketing updates from OUFC
They could see about getting adverts in the local cinemas before films as well. I've seen ads for Northants cricket before, so can't be prohibitively expensive.ah cheers. knew I'd read it somewhere.
did anyone see the advert on telly a few nights ago - MK Dons v Mansfield. must've been on central ( or itv1 whatever its called now). wonder if the clubs ever thought about doing something like that.
think central tv have studios in Abingdon so would be more local and stop MK from pinching potential fans
wondered why I hadn't seen Wesley Smith in waitrose for a whileCentral south no longer broadcasts from Abingdon it’s grouped in with Meridian hence all the Portsmouth fc south coast clubs news.
I guess. It’s tricky to get there from somewhere like Headington without driving
or get the 14 from Headington to Cowley centreWouldn’t that be the same for any location around oxford from headington, without driving ? U would still have to bus to the city centre first