Right. The weather was awful, the crowd was probably 2-3k less than was expected due to the weather.

I'd love to know how many watched the Sale v someone game, I reckon there was around 6-700 people there but I bet it's advertised as around 8000.

Re Starbugs point about crowds, I see the point, but in Australia Gold Coast finished bottom and their crowds were 15k Parramatta the same, in fact all of the other team with no hope of the play offs attendances were good.

Good grief do people still compare uk crowds to Aussie crowds? why?

Might as well compare Saints to Liverpool FC.

Again, Salford had a 50% increase on the same game last season. How is that not excellent?

Summer Rugby my , I was cold watching it and it's summer in Australia

(didn't get below 21c last night)

I didn't, I compared the situation teams who won't make the playoffs like Salford with the closest comparison, which is the situation with Gold Coast and Parramatta.

Sorry if this caused you any upset.

I'll tell you why it's not excellent! Last year, we had just won 3 in a row and Cas had lost 7 on the bounce! We only got 3500 cos Cas fans did not travel! Don't use that as a benchmark for claiming 5200 in a new stadium is excellent!
And Cas did bring 1500 easy, if not then the crowd was only 4200!!!!!
Either way we had 2700 paying Salford punters which is less than the corresponding fixture last year!

Quote ="Code13"The crowd was 50% up on the corresponding fixture from last season. What more can you ask for? If it had been on another day, without snow it might have been higher, but 5k+ in that weather on Friday night TV game isn't bad at all. If Salford keep up that level of increase there will be a lot of embarrassed pundits about. As for Huddersfield, it isn't a standalone club but it is moving their and that's ultimately the long term goal. I'd suggest that only Leeds and Wigan could truly claim to be standalone. Oh and no way did 1500 Cas fans travel. It always amazes me the sheer stupidity of numbers suggested for away fans in these situations. 500 Cas fans tops.'" www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2060 That stand was nearly full and hold just over 2,000 I'm led to believe.

Quote ="Code13"The crowd was 50% up on the corresponding fixture from last season. What more can you ask for? If it had been on another day, without snow it might have been higher, but 5k+ in that weather on Friday night TV game isn't bad at all. If Salford keep up that level of increase there will be a lot of embarrassed pundits about. As for Huddersfield, it isn't a standalone club but it is moving their and that's ultimately the long term goal. I'd suggest that only Leeds and Wigan could truly claim to be standalone. Oh and no way did 1500 Cas fans travel. It always amazes me the sheer stupidity of numbers suggested for away fans in these situations. 500 Cas fans tops.'" www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2060 That stand was nearly full and hold just over 2,000 I'm led to believe.

Having already been in that stand with 4/500 leythers ,there were around 1,4/500 Cas fans in that stand last night, it holds around 2,000

Yes Huddersfield are moving forward, but if you chuck 10/15 million at most clubs, they would eventually start to get there, another 10/15 to go and they might win something and break 10/12,000 occaisionally

Given the conditions and the fact the game was being shown live on SKY 5200 was a decent attendance. With the same circumstances I'd be surprised if the Willows would have got more than about 3000.

Given more favourable conditions and games against some of the big teams who will bring considerably more supporters I wouldn't be surprised to see attendances approaching 5 figures on occasions.

The stand that Cas fans were in holds 2500.

Would say Cas had about 1500 there taking into account a section of the away stand was closed off for the big screen.

some people (many moaning salford fans included) need to get a grip. 5200 is a good crowd for that game;..;..live on TV,...snow all over,....FREEZING COLD.....

People saying we wouldnt have got more in the sunshine are talking rubbihs.....the cllub sold 8000 tickets this week....I know as I bought mine from the staidum and they showed how many ticketst were left on the PC.

So 3000 ish didnt turn up because of the weather...probably cos they had kids and rightly didnt want them to freeze!!

Get a grip - it was a shocking night for rugby which WOULD have been cancelled if it wasnt on sky. Take that into account....5200 is still pretty healthy. Cas brought about 1300 which was great. There stand holds 2000 and it was a good turnout. Stadium wont change things overnight...needs time people....honestly have some flipping patience.

The numbers on here of about 1500 seem about right. Think they will need to open up other stands to away fans for sunday afternoon games in the summer against the local big teams like Wigan Saints and Wire. It got pretty crowded in the stand with aprox 1500 cas fans in.

Also only gripe i had with the stadium was putting the big screen in the same stand as away fans so we couldnt see replays when any of all 4 corners could have been used. Decent first visit to salford though.

Clearly there would have been a much greater attendance had it not been for the weather. But I don't think the club really helped themselves in a couple of ways. The big marketing push for the game started only days before, whereas it would have been much more beneficial to have it starting right from the day the fixtures go out. It all seemed a little bit eggs in one basket, with the fair and Amelia off X-Factor etc. Don't think it was the best idea having that, I wouldn't have bet against there being snow this weekend. If there was something like that mid-season, eg. the Warrington match in June, we could have a great crowd.

Still, the fixture was up around 50% from last year, which isn't too bad given the weather. If the Warrington game has a similar increase then the stadium will be pretty much full. It's far too early to judge though, we'll have to see come the end of the season.

You really think Cas took 1500, the Cas propaganda machine continues to suck in the gullible. Cas "exaggerated" Tigers - god bless them all.

Well if Tricky Dicky says it then it must be right - no really....

Unlike Glover who promised the new stands at Bell end for the start of the season......

Oh wait did the wind blow them down

From someone who was there, stood at the other end of the ground, considering how full the stand was and how many it holds I'd say 1,500 is about right. Unless you know something I don't?

He's just a sad pathetic individual who will argue to the hilt anything anti-Cas even when he gets proven wrong.

The stand holds 2,000 , Leigh took around 400+ to the friendly, Cas had around 1,4/500 in that stand on friday '

Salford stadium facts say the 3 small stands hold 2500 each and the big stand holds 4500

The north stand at Leigh must hold at least 5,000 then jc, it is double the size of the ones at Barton

I would never have said it held 2500 either but thats what the stadium facts say.
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As it says on my ' tui ' beer sign at work

Yeah, right

Obviously vastman, knows more about the crowds size than the salford and cas fans that were actually there, and the neutrals watching on tv.

Or alternatively he could just be upset because cas took a decent turnout and he has a problem with anything positive said about cas.

I was sat in the main stand, great hospitality by the way, there were a lot of Castleford fans in the main stand as well who were very vocal. Shame about the weather, must have kept the locals away. Getting away was slow, stewards were having a tough time but the snow was to blame not them.

The game should not have been played.