No need. Leigh have done that job for us. When many of the newbies from the 10k who attended are looking to watch top level rugby I'm sure the doctor will be happy to welcome them.

I hopefully will attend the Walkden Gateway Q & A next Thursday so if I can make it I will ask.

Agreed the 6000 is a decent turn out. The stadium company bid to host a world cup match and beat off competition. Its a shame they havent put in anywhere near the effort other venues have. The council/club/stadium company have invested a lot of money and if they do not work together and communicate we have no future. I dont expect the stadium to hold my hand back to my car/home/pub but I would appreciate everyone working in tandem. Weve got G4S overkill on the lead up to the ground and diddly squat when you reach the main road.

Quick bite that

It's difficult to know what anyone involved in the stadium could do about it though. Once you're off the stadium premises, you're on your own. I think it really needs a police presence, not only on the dangerous junction on to the motorway, but on the first part of the road away from the stadium in that direction (outside the reclamation place), where the pavement is narrow but is where we all spill out on to.

I think we just have to accept that, for the time being, access to the stadium is crap. A lot of us had misgivings about the location because of its 'one road in, one road out' vibe, but we accepted it because the stadium was going to be like something out of a sci-fi movie. Then we got the 'kid on work experience at the architects' design, so we're just left with the misgivings. Let's hope the new road helps, particularly if Marwan's plans for total world domination for the club and Disneyland Salford on the land surrounding the stadium come to fruition.

A delusional bite at that. Leaving a resurgent Leigh aside, if you are going to take your pick from Wire, Wigan, Saints, or Salford in the area - its hardly a tough decision, is it? No matter how long Koukash wants to flog the dead horse. Quite simply, "Salford" has zero cache and no matter how many big name signings you have, it is very difficult to acquire it. Change the name to Manchester and it might be a different proposition.

Leigh fans, you averaged 4500 when you were in Super League hardly a sleeping giant. Salford will prosper under Koukash, were seeing the first signs of that with excellent season ticket sales already.

Anyway, back on topic what crowd are we expecting tonight?

Trying to avoid the cook measuring but was that higher than yours and who was more competitive
The fact is that Salford have the lowest WC gate trophy and are consistently the worst heartland supported club who don't produce players either
I wish the doc well as I actually love what he is doing and wish we had him

Quick bite that.

Quick, yes - delusional, no (apart from the resurgent Leigh perhaps

). So that's one up to me.

Good crowd in Leeds......May well witness a massacre!

Looks absolutely rammed at Leeds. Got to be pushing 20k? How good a kicker is Johnson? Could be vital in the semi.

Oh dear it seems you are still under the impression that I was being serious.

Good to see a big crowd at Leeds. Hope PNG can keep the score down in the 2nd half.

18,180
Kiwis are awesome!

Great crowd, NZ were scarily good when it mattered.

18000+ is a pretty great crowd....spot on atmosphere too. New Zealand were clinical, but at least PNG had a go, and the crowd really got behind them.

I don't know where you got that idea, but the tram doesn't run to the Trafford Centre. It might do by about 2020, and the plans include the line going to the port being built next to the stadium and a tram stop at the stadium.

Quite right, Leigh averaged 4500 and the lowest crowd was 3300 in thate fateful SL season.

Not bad when you get pasted week in and week out.

Now remind me, what are Salfords gates, especially with a half decent team and a great coach last season ?

Was your lowest gate (ie London I presume) as low as 3300 ??

Great atmosphere at Headingley last night. Was an honour to be there

Half decent team? What part of the season did they play then? As I don't remember seing them?

I thought this thread was about World Cup crowds. The gate at Salford was poor. It doesn't look like they did anything to promote the game and as a result got a crowd that was lower than any of the games hosted by Championship sides (and a city where we don't have any pro RL).
Last night was a huge effort by Leeds. I was there and despite the fact that it was no-contest the atmosphere was fantastic. Looking forwarded to my trip to Hull and another big crowd today.

Absolutely agree. Would have been even better with a more even contest, but was still great.

You won far more games than Leigh did !!!
Anyway, back to topic.

Kiwis are an excellent team. Englands defence needs to be spot on, but it is encouraging that the Kumuls found a few gaps !

It was a great night, my dad does not go to many games nowadays but was singing along to Papua New Guinea

Ok thats enough Salford and Leigh baiting. It's getting to the point where the thread is being derailed.

Whilst it was a debate about crowds at the WC fine, but we are now onto when Leigh were last in SL???

No pleasing you!

fantastic crowd with one of the best atmospheres I've experienced, in a way where no one cared about the score. The noise for PNG first try was briliant!