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Interesting thread. Out of interest, how many times a week and how many people do you have playing? We're (Birmingham) at twice a week and probably 4-10 people at each one. It's very rare we only have 4 though...
Our biggest problem is probably losing the old hands. Over the three years we've been going, we've lost several people we weren't really expecting to, and they were all week-in/week-out regulars. But then we get random influxes of 3-4 new people, all at once who are pretty much unknown. Like anywhere, we have probably 4-6 harcore people and then various ratios of drop-ins. Maybe we get complacent when we have that perfect 8-15 regular turnout and don't push it any further, and it just falls back through natural wasteage. It's hard to hustle for more players when you know it's going to mean less game time for yourself though.
I've almost come to the conclusion that we can only support a scene around our current size at any one time, but the constituent players are always changing. Having said that, my impression of Manchester was that there were plenty of other cycling groups to tap in to.
I think indoor winter courts are the way to get people into it.