Am I the only regular going Salford fan that is really worried about our move to this stadium.
The team are doing their bit but off the field it's a shambles! Despite very encouraging form at saints and good win at widnes, our crowd goes down after first match when all the excuses were played.....snow, minus 5, on tv, Saturday kick off....shall I go on! After one game in our super league life in a brand new stadium and a whole stand is shut!
Hull brought 2000(min)so with 600 corporates we had 2500 Salford punters max! Can't blame the product or the team or he stadium. We took 400 to widnes and they got over 5000 so their core crowd is double ours and they are proper s....e!
2 things....don't come on here spouting if you don't go to matches and......more importantly.....why can't the management fill the east stand with 2500 kids with free tkts? The residual spend alone would be worth it not to mention showing this great product of ours to a new audience! Off the field need to take a long hard look at themselves.
One final thing, don't try and tell me crowds have gone up compared to fixtures last season.....they have, it's a fact, but we also had over 6000 against hull the previous year and nearly 7000 v Cas in 2009 (at the willows!!!!!)
Sunday kick offs might just be the answer!

Why do the so called people who run the ground not ask the fans what can be done to get more in the ground as it is a f... up at the mo lets get the kids in the closed stand. any comments sent to the ground get no replys.

Free kids tickets dont work, if you give out family tickets, some will end up in the hands of fans who would attend anyway, costing the club money

However it can be done, but it needs a ' leap of faith ' mentality, planning and hard work, Salford are not alone in this fear of trying things, most clubs on the ' edge ' financially are almost ' frozen ' , unable to experiment, scared of getting it wrong at the start and losing even the smallest bit of revenue attempting to increase it in the long term

The East stand full of families would improve things enormously, but just opening the gates costs money even if nobody is in it

I dont think its as simply as handing out 2,500 tickets to fill the East Stand. The club have done this in the past, Im sure we got crowds of around 8k for Northern Rail Cup games against Swinton and Oldham on a Friday night. How long do the club keep giving the freebies out for before we expect their parents to start putting their hands in their pockets like the hardcore support do week in week out.
Re-establishing the Junior Red Devils would be a good start and reducing the price of kids season tickets. Think we need to offer a package that would not only attract young families but also keep them interested and want to return week after week. Junior Red Devils membership which costs say £50 and gives them a free pass in to every home game and a free home shirt plus stuff like posters and stickers which could also spread the message to school friends when they see kids wearing the Salford shirt. My young girl loved having her photo taken with Ignito but now hes left, whos the new mascot, I didnt see anything unveiled at last nights game?

All positive stuff, you could give me hope!

The Broncos next week so that should boost your crowd by about 10!

See you there

No that would be to easy to ask the fans!

The reason for the closure of the East stand is by opening up this stand they will need to pay the extra revenue for the stewarding, catering & turnstile operators & they don't see it as cost effective.

I suppose it no different to Huddersfield or at Widnes where they close off a stand on match day.

I for one love the view from the east stand & have watched the last home game & the Wigan friendly game from this stand & would use the unreserved seating if open.

I think the reality was posted by [delIain[/del - correction by Scoot, elsewhere - the safety certificate is only for 9,000 therefore it makes complete economic sense just to run three stands for now.

Sunday rugby for me every time, we need to generate interest, & Friday night only preaches to the converted especially in the winter months!
I believe playing Sunday would put at least another 1000 on the gate, made up of extra away fans as well as potential home supporters.
I have attend every home & away game this season & the club are starting to get it right on the pitch by playing rugby you want to watch, the back-room staff (board) now need to get there backside in gear & review how they can generate some interest in the club.

If the fans were asked in the first place about the ground do you think the new shed behind the sticks was a yes think not, close that stand and put reds fans in the east stand ie Warrington.

Right - two thread covering pretty much the same ground so I'm merging them.

From a fan of a club who is about to go on the new ground adventure, the question is a simple one: which ground produce, or did produce, the best and most fervent home team atmosphere?

Answers:
Knowsley Road
Headingley
New Craven Park
Warrington

In terms of atmosphere against numbers, you could also add The Willows, and if you go back far enough, you could also add The Boulevard.

What do or did they all have in common? The home team "kop" standing along the side.

Continuing performing how you are and the crowds will go up.

I do agree though that changing to Sunday will be a big boost. You will get a few walk ups, due to people been bored on a Sunday, Friday night you don't get this as people will be shattered from a weeks work and won't want to go watch a game of rugby on a Friday night.

why not give free tickets to the army t a cadets in east manchester

I've stated in the past that I was concerned that senior people at the club seemed to be putting excessive faith in the "build it and they will come" philosophy and were assuming we'd be like Warrington and Hull despite the obvious and huge differences in the circumstances of our moves.

I hoped that we wouldn't be over relying on optimism to get the increased crowds, but I'm concerned that it does look like the case. Yes, we've recorded fairly decent increases on like for like fixtures from last year, but in both cases the away support has doubled on last year.

The grand talk ahead of the move was the raising of us from a locality based club to one drawing support from the wider conurbation, but the marketing push so far has appeared to be leaflet drops in the area near the stadium, an ad in the Advertiser (both happening very close to the game) and Facebook.

The Friday night/Sunday afternoon debate is a tough one. I know people who can't get to many home games due to the Friday nights, but also know people who wouldn't be able to go to every game if they were on Sundays. Away support would almost definitely go up on Sundays, but then the corporate side would suffer; and it's the corporate side why we have Friday nights as it is. We must make more money off the x number of corporates, rather than the 4000 regular fans.

Saints crowd dropped 2500 from our game there, and we only took 200 fans, so even a winning team is struggling to maintain its support on a Friday.

that 'trish' woman a few years ago, had the crowds coming on the angel(?) scheme.
bring her back.

i think she fell out with another director who is still at the club so she wouldn't come back, but there is no reason as to why we can't use similar schemes just needs a personality to put some effort into it.

for games up to the end of March it should be Sunday afternoon
ok friday evenings when summer comes

Can somebody explain to me why Friday nights are better for corporate than a Sunday afternoon,i just don`t get it.

Sunday games would attract much bigger crowds,friday nights are great cos i can have a good drink without worrying about work the next day!

Families simply cannot attend matches 8 o clock friday night! My little girl loves goin to see saford yet she is in bed every night at 7 o clock.My missus loves to come see salford,but she cant either she is at home with kids??? Same scenario for a LOT of people surely???

I'm affraid that two things need to be adressed at your new stadium. First the £5 car parking needs to be scrapped or make it £2. Second you need a second road that comes under the motorway straight past the sewage works into Eccles to cut out the motorway roundabout. This would make the journey much easier and ease the wait after the game. You can't charge £5 for parking only to be sat there for ages after the game and be parking on a mud field with shingle on it.
I park no where near the ground. It takes ten minutes to walk to the car and I am straight on the motorway but not everyone can or are prepared to walk so you have to get them closer to the stadium. The people who run these places really need to take a trip to the states and see how the paying customer gets treated.

Because you get them after work, still in work mode, wanting to end the week with a few sherbets. Sundays are for time with their families, not anything work-related.

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This project was given funding in November through the Regional Growth Fund - subject to due diligence - so may be happening sooner rather than later.

Then all we need is Metrolink, but I won't be holding my breath.