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We usually get a rough time over our crowds (rightly so) but hopefully this shows there is interest in the Salford club and it can be harnessed at Barton. Especially impressive when you consider there were very few away fans!!

Well done Reds

Well done Salford. Hopefully you can carry the majority of them over to your new ground. Obviously not the Catalan fans though, guessing they brought more than the 200 Cas took to Hull KR

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Well done to Salford, shame about the result, but great crowd...

could you really fit 10k in there??


i remember not long before watershedding shut the place had a capacity of around 9-10k and we played huddersfield in the challenge cup 1/4's..1995 iirc...and we had 8k+ in there that day...it was scary lol

Can you afford a new stadium for every game ?

Jealous? not find any new jokes?

Not jealous at all , I am glad that you managed to fill the Willows one last time , you got 4 times more than we did at Hilton Park , however does it give an indication of how many are likely to follow you to Barton ? , No , that will depend on lots of things , the quality of player you can recruit , and the quality of RL you play , plus how well you can market yourself to the potential new customers on your new doorstep , I sincerely hope it works out for you

Totally agree with you, much work to do to make that size crowd the norm

Be good for you if you can hold onto a lot of them

Like we did moving from Boulevard to KC

Im sure lots more families will come etc

Some great crowds this weekend.

19K at Wigan
16K at Hull
10K at Salford and Hudds
almost 9K at Rovers

even Quins got 3.5K for a 'dead rubber' fixture.

Whilst that is all positive news pal no-one seems to be interested! It's all doom-mongers on here! If Salford for 5K crowd today I could gather this thread would have more replies than the presant.

Come on 10,000 paying i think not, maybe 5000 free tickets given away

Great crowd and shows the potential. I hope your marketing team was full go and every one of the 10k left with a season pass leaflet for 2012?

No free tickets were given out. Just prices lowered and children free accompanied by an adult the same deal they have at huddersfield.

Don't want to take it away from you, but sky news were reporting on this for a couple of hours before kick off, and pointing out how many fans were coming from other clubs across the country for a final time before the stadium is gone.

These were not Salford fans, so by definition surely are away fans?

Remember the RUGBY world cup is on, when you move advertise the RUGBY at the new ground, the good folk of Trafford,Urmston and Davyhulme wont know any difference and will turn up in droves - especially when you advertise WILKINSON will be there.

Good luck at the new Gaff.

Sky News must have blown this out of proportion... The majority of the crowd were there in Salford colours... Even if 1,000 people turned up from other clubs 9k+ Reds fans is some achievement considering that we get so much stick for low support.

Give the club some credit for a change please.

I was at the Willows yesterday (on a corporate session), it was a very good crowd and the majority were Salford fans. A few well known faces in the ground - Andy Gregory, Adrian Morley, Matt King, Sean Long, Ian Millward.

There was actaully around 150 tickets given away for the academy game. Although i had heard you had sold over 7K alone on pre sale which is pretty impressive for salford. I wish you luck in your new home at Barton, of course not when widnes come into town

See, I thought this. Watching the match on TV I thought it was obviously around the 16-17k mark, but the SL website has it down as 10,845

I noticed that and seen as Hull average around 12k I was suprised the crowd was so low. Must have been a mistake.

It was a mistake the official figure was 16121

Cheers, i've changed it in my database of average crowds I do for another RL website.

9 wins out of the last 10 games for the academy, finishing with a 32-4 win over Wire. If Widnes all conquering academy side had a similar run of results we would never hear the end of it.