Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:00 pm  

Can somebody explain to me why Friday nights are better for corporate than a Sunday afternoon,i just don`t get it.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:37 pm  

Sunday games would attract much bigger crowds,friday nights are great cos i can have a good drink without worrying about work the next day!

Families simply cannot attend matches 8 o clock friday night! My little girl loves goin to see saford yet she is in bed every night at 7 o clock.My missus loves to come see salford,but she cant either she is at home with kids??? Same scenario for a LOT of people surely???

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:59 pm  

I'm affraid that two things need to be adressed at your new stadium. First the £5 car parking needs to be scrapped or make it £2. Second you need a second road that comes under the motorway straight past the sewage works into Eccles to cut out the motorway roundabout. This would make the journey much easier and ease the wait after the game. You can't charge £5 for parking only to be sat there for ages after the game and be parking on a mud field with shingle on it.
I park no where near the ground. It takes ten minutes to walk to the car and I am straight on the motorway but not everyone can or are prepared to walk so you have to get them closer to the stadium. The people who run these places really need to take a trip to the states and see how the paying customer gets treated.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:13 am  

mitie mouse wrote:

Can somebody explain to me why Friday nights are better for corporate than a Sunday afternoon,i just don`t get it.

Because you get them after work, still in work mode, wanting to end the week with a few sherbets. Sundays are for time with their families, not anything work-related.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:36 am  

TV BOY wrote:

Second you need a second road that comes under the motorway straight past the sewage works into Eccles to cut out the motorway roundabout. This would make the journey much easier and ease the wait after the game.

This...



This project was given funding in November through the Regional Growth Fund - subject to due diligence - so may be happening sooner rather than later.

Then all we need is Metrolink, but I won't be holding my breath.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:46 am  

Parking at NFL games is around $20 /£14 so you get what you pay for and to be fair getting away from the car parks is no easier than any other mass attended event. Saying that some stadia get certain roads blocked/restricted at the end of games so access onto the main roads is quicker/safer.
As pointed out access & egress from the car par is shocking and the costs involved to fix it could well be out of reach. Given some fans with families don't want to walk their kids 10/15/20 minutes to a game this may well be putting some off from coming at all no matter what time or day of the week it is.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:56 am  

Think more than anything what is needed are lights on the roundabout as currently you can be sat for an age waiting to get onto it from the Eccles side of the A57 due to the vehicles coming off the motorway.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:22 pm  

Iain wrote:

This...



This project was given funding in November through the Regional Growth Fund - subject to due diligence - so may be happening sooner rather than later.

Then all we need is Metrolink, but I won't be holding my breath.

Where did you get that map from about Port Salford?

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:04 pm  

Fridays are definately the problem with the low crowds. I work in Wigan until 5, if I didn't have an understanding boss who lets me work through my dinner hours 2days a week so i can finish an hour early on fridays I'd never be able to make the match. I have to pick my son up from nursery, drive home get my little boys tea ready bath him, get ready myself, then drive and pick up other family members who are going to the game, then drive down to the stadium allowing for traffic get there and get parked up and go into the stadium before kick off is a mad rush! If I didn't love Salford as much as I do I wouldn't waste my time going, like a lot of those fans who sit on the fence. The biggest attendence at the willows in the super league era was 10000 all home fans, what day was that game played on? It definately wasn't a friday night! The club have messed up big time opting for Fridays over Sunday, it just near enough impossible for family's to go and watch, another thing how many little children do we see at the coss? Not many at all as their all tucked up in bed before kick off! Rant over.

Re: Team great, crowd disaster : Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:25 pm  

I think the location of the new ground lends itself more to Sundays than Fridays. Places such as Swinton, Clifton, Worsley, Walkden, LH are pretty much cut off from the new stadium public transport wise on a Friday night.