Well if I was Wilkinson I wouldn’t care about making a profit if he sells, he’s already made some good money with willows variety centre in the past.

Crowds were comparatively low across the board in the early 70s. In retrospect, Salford crowds were way above average. Sadly I don't know how to inflate the figure to a contemporary average.

If you take the 1973 Kangaroos tour as an example of the top-end attendance certain clubs could achieve, Salford compared well. In fact, more turned up for the game at The Willows than the first and third tests:

[code30/09/73 Salford 12 - 15 Australia 11,064
03/10/73 Wakefield Trinity 9 - 13 Australia 5,863
07/10/73 Dewsbury 3 - 17 Australia 5,685
10/10/73 Castleford 10 - 18 Australia 2,419
14/10/73 Widnes 10 - 25 Australia 5,185
19/10/73 Oldham 10 - 44 Australia 2,895
24/10/73 Cumberland 2 - 28 Australia 3,666
28/10/73 Bradford Northern 14 - 50 Australia 5,667
03/11/73 Great Britain 21 - 12 Australia 9,874 1st Test @ Wembley
07/11/73 Hull K.R. 9 - 25 Australia 5,150
10/11/73 Huddersfield 2 - 32 Australia 1,333
11/11/73 Leigh 4 - 31 Australia 2,607
13/11/73 St. Helens 11 - 7 Australia 10,013
18/11/73 Featherstone Rovers 13 - 18 Australia 5,659
24/11/73 Great Britain 6 - 14 Australia 16,674 2nd Test @ Headingley
01/12/73 Great Britain 5 - 15 Australia 10,019 3rd Test @ Wilderspool [/code

Leeds won the cup in '77 & '78 and were beaten finalists in '71 & '72. They won the Championship in '72 (after having won it in '69) and lost in the final in '73. They also won countless Yorkshire Cups, floodlit trophies and beat us in the Regal Trophy Final in '72 and knocked us out of the cup in '74 and '75. I wish we'd been 'not that good' in the 70s. KOTS is right about RL attendances in the 70s. The sport nearly died.

I know but that doesn't make them good

So what does it make them? And if winning trophies doesn't make you good, I dread to think what 30 years of no success makes Salford...

we did the "treble" in 2008