‘Quid a Kid’ proved successful

Although the result on the night didn’t go the way we had planned it, there was more than one successful outcome of the match with Huddersfield last Friday night.

Back in November when it was announced that this home match would be brought forward to the Friday night , the WW Trust suggested to the Club that this be designated a ‘Quid a Kid’ game.

We felt that this might encourage a good turnout of youngsters (and their parents) to experience a night game when most children would not have school to go to the next morning. Also coming so soon after the Christmas holiday period, we recognised that, for many, money might be particularly tight and this would be a much appreciated offer, hoping to boost the crowd for a televised game against one of the league’s top sides.

The Club has advised us that over 250 ‘Quid a Kid’ tickets were sold and that this brought in more youngsters than we would normally see for an evening match. This deal would also have brought in extra parents and whilst the overall gate figure was down on some previous games, this may have been due to the fact that the game was televised live on Sky Sports.

Apart from our opponents, the other party delighted with the evening were Sky Sports for whom the match was seen as a great example of football from a lower league with lots of goals and a great story for their Sports News channel to follow up on.