Quote ="Donnyman"Thanks for that. It appears the move to the poorly accessible wasteland under the motorway shaved 2,000 off the fanbase. As for potential when they shut the Wiillows/Weaste? the last game played there hit 10,000 didn't it? Maybe many of them had United and City season tickets to pay for and only chose the very big games.
I can assure you the mockers are in the minority, if you're just counting the comments on the web sites......
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11,000+ at the last game I think. It was rammed. But that was every Tom, Dick, Harry etc coming out of the woodwork for the game to say "I was there".
At the time I was living literally half a mile up the road. "The Willows" was easily accessible for locals & away fans (trams/buses/taxis from city centre).
There were local pubs and the club vault available on site for pre/post match beers.
Unfortunately the AJ Bell is accessible only by car (unless you want to do planes/trains/automobiles) so you lose a lot of the "match day experience"icon_wink.gif.
I loved The Willows, I really did. I went to high school 400 yards up the road and it got me into rugby league. It was "old school". My first girlfriend lived in a house that backed onto the ground, I spent many a Sunday afternoon drinking there as an (potentially) underage drinker.,
As for Utd/City fans choosing games I can't comment. I'm a Red from birth and I have very few RL supporting mates. You're either born into it or you're pushed into it IMO. I was, shall we say, "persuaded" by a free season ticket. Best (or worst) thing I ever did tbh or I wouldn't be debating 30 years of utter heartbreak with you lot if I'm honest!
). It's pretty tiresome having to put up with the constant "what do Salford bring to the table with their sh*t crowds?" etc year after year. Fact is, if Widnes or Bradford got their act together 90% of RL fans would rather have them in SL than us. But it is what it is and we'll just keep plodding along pi$$ing everyone off with our sh*t crowds for as long as we can. 
