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jefferson smith
1st May 2017 at 12:18 am
While i agree with Todd Kelman that pretty much all teams need to promote themselves better, i think there is alot more that needs to be done. Edinburgh and Milton keynes have structural pillars blocking spectator views in other sports you might get away with it but hockey is so fast it’s hard to follow. I believe due to the late time of day hockey matches tend to finnish most fans will live within 30 minutes travel of there arena. When Manchester storm played out of the Nynex they had average crowds of around 8000 yet there attendances in Altrincham are less then 1500. I also feel we need a team in the north east playing in the Elite league, a team in Liverpool, Birmingham and above all a team in London to help raise the profile of the sport. I would love to see on a monday night on 1 of the 5 domestic channels 1 game of the week+ highlights show and between periods some explanations on why referee’s make the rullings they have made between periods. And lastly but not least i’d like to see 12 double ice pads for training/development in the UK. Of course any of this is moving in the right direction. The sooner the better though.