Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:40 pm  

Dantes Inferno wrote:

:CLAP: Welcome to my world matey......

I have seen the stick you get on here, some of it maybe justified when you get a little exercised like I am now but this lot just don't get it! You pay peanuts you get monkeys! You do what you have always done you get what you have always had! 10 years they say this was in the making and they allow the whole rugby world to see an empty stadium on tv! They should have handed them out to the 25000 that visited the Trafford centre today despite the snow!
The reason for my attitude is that we have played our trump card and failed-miserably! We can't blame the willows anymore for a crap team, no fans and a poor atmosphere!
You'll all say give it time but you only get one chance to make a first impression and we blew it spectacularly!

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:49 pm  

shedite wrote:

I have seen the stick you get on here, some of it maybe justified when you get a little exercised like I am now but this lot just don't get it! You pay peanuts you get monkeys! You do what you have always done you get what you have always had! 10 years they say this was in the making and they allow the whole rugby world to see an empty stadium on tv! They should have handed them out to the 25000 that visited the Trafford centre today despite the snow!
The reason for my attitude is that we have played our trump card and failed-miserably! We can't blame the willows anymore for a crap team, no fans and a poor atmosphere!
You'll all say give it time but you only get one chance to make a first impression and we blew it spectacularly!

I feel for you Shedite, this has been going on for 30 years with these fiasco's and it isn't going to get any better until the right people are put in the right places regarding off the field matters.... How right was Matt Parish......

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:09 am  

Dantes Inferno wrote:

I feel for you Shedite, this has been going on for 30 years with these fiasco's and it isn't going to get any better until the right people are put in the right places regarding off the field matters.... How right was Matt Parish......

Enough said,now is the time to all stick together,and try for the sake of our beloved club,because if we don`t who will,to come together,this is our last chance lads.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:26 am  

jonny the leyther wrote:

You are wrong.

And you watched on tv?

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:11 am  

To be fair I thought the attendance was not that bad as an outsider. Given that as an outsider , most of what I've heard from Salford in the off season has been more about the coach leaving than the new stadia, then I imagine that is what most potential new fans have seen. So any new fans has to be an improvement given the offseason.

Salford held their own for most of the match, it was not a whitewash unlike the pitch, but Salford are always going to need a full side out to match other teams on the field. The loss of Godwin takes out a key player. Then there was the forced change with the fella who got knocked senseless by the ball in his face.

With the turmoil in the offseason I was actually expecting alot worse for Salford, maybe even challenging Widnes for the wooden spoon. Most expect Castleford to make the top 8 this year, if you can get your pack going a little better it may not be all doom and gloom. Smith had a few nice touches and swept the line well from some kicks. But he needs back up at half back and there are a fair few knocking about SL nowa days. Don't know about the salford academy, but I know some wigan fans have mentioned they have a young fella they hope to be a good prospect for the future. Maybe worth looking at who is out there on a loan deal if holdworth is not up to it.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:43 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Sky reported an attendance of just over 4k.
So looks like the figures have started to get massaged upwards to put a bit of spin on things.

The figure of 5,242 was announced inside the ground during the game. So quite where Sky's apparent 4k figure you mention came from is beyond me.

That shouldn't detract from the fact that it's still 3,000 short of what we should have been pulling in at the bare minimum.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:46 pm  

I am disappointed with the attendance, and disheartened because people at the club must have put a lot of effort into organising everything for last night, and getting the match on in the first place, given the weather. It's just typical that the snow had to come on the day of our first game.

The weather would have been a big deciding factor for a lot of the fringe fans looking to pay on the day, and the attendance has clearly been skewed by the snow. How many people were put off by the snow? Had the attendance been an extra 800 or so to 6000, would it have been so bad? Still disapointing for the first game, but I'd be happy with a 6k average crowd for the season. The next home game will give a better indication of how well we're doing in terms of crowd.

Had it been at the Willows, same weather conditions, still on Sky etc, I think the crowd would have been significantly less than what it was. So at least there was some improvement, although not as much as anyone hoped.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:52 pm  

No disrespect to Cas, but traditionally, they would have been one of your lower attendances of the year anyway?

Couple this point with the rotten weather and you still have grounds for optimisim that your crowd numbers will improve.

The visits of Saints/Wigan/Wire/Leeds will surely entice a few more of your casual fans to pay a visit, plus those type of sides will fetch big numbers of their own fans too.....I would imagine for those 4 games, you must be aiming for the 10,000 mark if your marketing team does its job properly.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:57 pm  

last years game against cas in the middle of June attracted 3587 fans, so despite the weather and the game being on Sky we got 5242, an increase of 46% any marketing team on earth would be singing from the rafters about such a massive increase.

Re: attendence this weekend.. : Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:10 pm  

Anyone who doesn't see that the weather had a massive impact on the attendance is living cloud cuckoo land.
I'd bet that there was a few a people who had bought tickets didn't attend never mind casual/curious fans, that was the coldest I've been stood watching a game and in that I include the midweek Batley game years ago.
Still say that the attempted pre match entertainment last night will be a winner in the summer, the stadium people should be more realistic at this time of year as to what they can achieve.