I for one am happy for the free tickets!!! I have been a season ticket holder for many years and have supported our great club for over 35 years. But I was made redundent last year and cannot afford a season ticket for this year! I had the e-mail offer from the club for free entry to the Harlequins game and a reduced entrance for tonight of £5:00, sorry but for me they can keep doing the promotions as otherwise I would not get to see any games.

Quote ="willowred"Why dont you do the same and have done with it news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7946016.stm'" No comment about the attendance tonight, you disappoint me. Is it possibly because tonight's attendance was on a par with your usual season total until 2006?

Quote ="willowred"Why dont you do the same and have done with it news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7946016.stm'" No comment about the attendance tonight, you disappoint me. Is it possibly because tonight's attendance was on a par with your usual season total until 2006?

Bottom line = the club could offer a free bottle of whisky for life, a free blow job and a caribbean holiday with 10 Grand spending money, and the good people of Salford would STILL stay away!! End Of...

Or the fact you gave away vast amounts of free tickets so the actual paying attendance was not revealed, but if it was and minus the Wigan support probably another poor effort. We dont need to hand out freebies to get people in the ground we had over a 1000 more last weekend against Celtic than you had at your cup final

I'm sorry........... were you there?
have you got any idea how many of the people there got in for free and haw many paid? Have you got any idea how many were salford fans and how many were wigan?

Yes- the atendance was boosted by a big away support but there was a good show from Red fans too. I got in with a free ticked, that ment i could give my ticket away and the guy i gave it to bought someone else who paid full price. plus one of them said he would def come again.

It was a good promo and a good crowd. I don't think we should be embarassed about that. (maybe i should be embarressed that i can't spell but thats another story!)

the free ticket thing worked last night. 4 lads out of our club got there freebies from a source. they said they WONT be back. but hey at least i paid my money

keep building the Ark (global warming) that should keep you away from our boards for a while and your hands occupied or are you really a secret Salford fan ?

..... so if they [uwon't[/u be back....it DIDN'T work

Tough one this I have a mate who over the last three seasons has steadily got into watching Salford, so much so that he bought a season ticket for himself and his son this season.

Last night he said to me I wish I hadn't bought one now, firstly because it is painful to watch, secondly because he says he has had a free ticket lined up for all three home games so far this season , and thirdly because tickets are cheaper than at the box office at a local drinking hole. (said diplomatically).

Does it work I don't know ???

should only give free tickets out for games like celtic, catalans or quins.

have you all noticed its people with season tickets/lottery getting free tickets so you can 'introduce new fans',not use them yourself you wouldnt be getting them if you werent so you would have too pay.

i think you are mising the point beezer. the point people are making is that i for one WILL get a season ticket every year no matter what league they are in, but i know the club are trying their hardest but they are taking the p@ss out of their loyal fans, as clearly after the hardcore fans, people in salford just dont care which is a big shame. so why should people keep getting free tickets when they just dont give a toss and come out with smart comments as carnt believe you pay to watch that every weekits a bit annoying but again it was good to see a very busy willows. but as i said before, how many will BUY a ticket and come again

Any Hull KR fan who bought a ticket for the Leeds game got half price tickets for Wakey/Celtic/Salford at home. Looks like you are more desperate to pull in decent crowds than you are letting on.

In the south stand you idiot, the stand where we put the dullers when we play them. The east stand is passholders only and the main stand is sold out every game. Yes there was this option against the less supported teams like yourselves

At last I think you've finally got it, although if you want to compare the last twenty years of your attendances to ours be my guest.

What I don't think you get remains the fact that if you were to pull in crowds of 20,000 week in week out this year it wouldn't make one jot of difference in hkr's silverware department to ours would it. Go away you obsessed freak.

As for free tickets, if somebodys unlucky enough to be given one, fair play I say as they get to watch the same pile of sh[ii[/it I have to endure every Friday night.

I can sort of understand seaon ticket holders being annoyed at people around them getting in for free, although personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If watching Salford at the Willows was made free for everyone I would still happily donate y £160 (or whatever it was) each year to the club.

Any season ticket holders who are feeling down about this should perhaps remember that your £160 paid for a new Salford jersey, free entrance to all Academy fixtures, free entry to our first (and probably only?!) Cup game and half price tickets for the Magic Weekend.

Once you subtract all of that (as well as the warm feeling you get by being a ST holder?!) we're not paying all that much for each game we watch at home.

and one final thought on this........

After Friday's game, maybe people attending for the first time on a freebie [iWILL[/i be keen to attend another RL game as a paying spectator.....

.........but it's almost certain that they'll go to the JJB and [inot [/ireturn to The Willows.

The two I brought want to come again the young lad even wants a shirt

(Not that he can get one!)

Not necessarily. I brought 3 new people to the game on Friday and they all enjoyed themselves and said they'd come again (although the £17 normal fee would probably prevent them coming often). Interestingly, the fact that we got beat didn't bother any of them and wouldn't put them off coming again; they said they enjoyed the atmosphere as being different to football, enjoyed the mixing of fans, and enjoyed being able to have a drink. All 3 of them have moved to the local are from places at least 80 miles away and don't come from areas where they are used to having a successful local sports team. I'd hazard a guess that "outsiders" are far less put off by defeat than many of the locals round here who have been brought up on a golden era for Man United.

when i first went to both united and salford, united were getting relegated and salford were champions.
but the football still had far greater support.

That's not my point. Sport in general, with vastly increased TV and news coverage is much higher profile that at any time in the past, and as a result of unprecedented local success I'm suggesting that we have a generation of sports fans locally to whom winning is all that matters - people who would much rather see us beat Swinton by 70 points than lose to Saints by 2. We also have a local "armchair" culture that we have to overcome, as people have become increasingly used to "supporting" their team without going to games to the extent that watching sport in the flesh doesn't really cross their minds.

now that i agree with, and to be honest it's the reason i have started going to salford regular (season ticket holder for 3 seasons)
because i could no longer afford a season ticket at united as my 2 lads wanted to go, so i get myself, my dad (who still has his old trafford season ticket) my 2 lads and nephew a salford season ticket for the price of a united.
because i think you should go and watch your team.

That's the best post I've read on here for months.

I see you are doing buy 10 get 5 free in the north stand for our game as well. Thought you didn't do free tickets?

I saw two mates at the game yesterday that I've not seen for a long time. They've certainly not been on the Willows for a good few number of years. It turns out they're the lottery anyway to support the club and got a pair of these tickets. They came to the game and, as far as I'm aware, enjoyed themselves. Service in the Tavern aside, anyway.

Whether they'll come back or not I'm yet to find out. But if it pulls people in like that, then surely it's a good thing? Eventually, people will start to come back.