I really don't think Salford fans are as price sensitive as you seem to think ... quite sure we'd quickly add a few thousand to the gate if we built a winning team.

I hope that the Chairman and other directors don't bother with this forum, as if they did they would surely feel like walking away from it all with all the negative comments etc.

In three years time we will be well entrenched in the new ground with all that it offers, seat prices that are reasonable for a brand new facility, I have paid up front for two years so have my family,as we feel that we get a good deal from the club.

The catering will/should meet anyone's requirements as the company who I understand have the franchise currently operate in other sports stadium's very successfully but I am sure that it wont be very long before someone is complaining over the price of beer, the colour of the staff uniforms,the stewards are not like they were at the Willows,bring back Tetleys etc.etc.

The on site car parking will be possibly have more spaces than any other SL club, this should calm the fears of both home and away supporters over security etc.

Finally a couple of points-

(1)Every sport's club that I frequent serve beer in plastic glasses especially inside the actual ground area.

(2)If the beer is that bad don't buy it.

and if you are in France, not only is it in plastic cups it is also San Alcohol as well



at least you can watch the match with the drink in your hand unlike some stadiums.

Who has got the contract for stadium catering??

Cant remember the name but they do the catering at Northampton Saints RU club,and they do it very successfully by all accounts.

Although we will I feel have some people who will find any flaws in the company very quickly possibly before it even starts operating.

Is it still Lindley Catering? If so, I hope the stuff they've produced at Bury is an isolated incident, then. Over priced and a not exactly brilliant. Still, I'll wait and see what's actually produced at Barton before compaining...

I fancy the price of our squad has also pipped the inflation curve.


You're upset about the £1-a-season price hike, but you'd be happy to almost double the price of a plastic pint of flat beer? Because it's served in a cardboard tray from a kid wearing a polo shirt??


Think about Beyonce instead then. Bang tidy!


How did you arrive at a 50% decrease?


If there was one fixed solution to increase gates AND income, surely every sales dept would just get on with it? My guess is: there isn't.

We charge £23 (£25 on the day) now for the best seats in the main stand, compared to £21 for the best seats at Wigan. Can't wait to see what we class as a reasonable price for a brand new facility.

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Not SL , Not even Championship
Cronulla Sharks

lying 12 from 7 wins in 19 games


"The loyal ones will turn up, they always do,"

"The Sharks will also be running special entertainment around the ground for all those in attendance."

Wonder if they've thought of getting people to try and kick a rugby ball into a wheelie bin at half time? That should get the crowd up.

don't knock it, it is original, we are the only ones doing it, just can't imagine why the marketing team have not got an angle on this.

S

The Biffa boot of the week award

I am pretty certain that it is not Lindley Catering.

Perhaps thats a training routine which is multi purpose

I thought there was a different take on this ( I may be wrong ) but I thought they were playing bounce the ball off the closed lid ? magnifique

No that was last home game .
Next home game Penn & Teller will be challenged to open the lid.

Lindley need to update their website, then, if that's the case.

Still, it gives us a chance of getting someone a lot better in.

Negativity,I thought people were just giving,a honest opinion.In three years time,If we don,t get a team,
It will not matter about beer,or plastic.

Lance,I am answering other peoples opinions with some of my own.

In three years time I am of the opinion that some people on this forum will not be happy if we have a top eight spot,average crowds of 10000, paying the full salary cap,the council trying to up the capacity to 15.000 etc.

In three years time there will still be questions over the beer,plastic glasses,the hand driers in the toilets and the fact that some "new fans" are singing different songs or are not singing loud enough.

How may times would you pay good money for a bad pint?If nobody bought the stuff there's a good chance that things would change.

Middleman will confirm this-the answer to crowds is simple-when we signed Hadley,Williams,Evans,etc and got to the Lancs Cup Final the crowds rose steadily with every win.Put a winning team ,with a star player or two, on the pitch and the crowd appears-not rocket science

88-89 season ?
started off with a 3,500 crowd against Hull Kr , 5,800 against Warrington , 6,600 against Widnes , 5,900 against Oldham when we were lying 2nd in the Stones Bitter Championship,
Top home crowd against Wigan 8,500 , when we were 5th , Crowd back to 3,500 by the tail end of the season against Halifax when we were back to 10th .
boost in crowds early season co-incided with our run to the Lanc cup final at Knowsley Rd with 19,000 + in attendance
the star player was Paul Shaw!

we had good gates this season Saints 5,900, Wigan 6,200 & Warrington 7,500 , and we have played some good entertaining rugby in spells , trouble is when it's mattered , when the gates have been there our team didn't turn up

And some people like yourself will be blissfully happy to continue to accept every bad decision the club makes and won't want to criticise people if we continue to drift along aimlessly like we have done for more years than anyone cares to remember.

There is alot of moaning on this forum some of it wholly justified, some of it not. Like anything a balance is needed. I am cautiously optimistic about the move to the new stadium, it is our one big chance to move forward as a club, but we have got to get it right from the outset. I just hope both on and off the field the club is upto the challenge.

Walshovski,I am not blissfully happy with every bad decision that the club makes and I have been around long enough to have seen more than a few, equally I am not blissfully happy with the small number of people who seem to wish the worst for the club whatever the club does.

I personally initially wanted to stop at the Willows and develop it but after listening to various people including the club directors etc I am now eagerly awaiting the move, and I am now very blissfully happy awaiting the delivery of my season tickets for the new West stand along with some new signings (hopefully?