I know not everyone gets it but it said in Reporter that it was definitely on unless there was a heavy snow fall

So did Club website. But not everyone from outside the area knows what the weather was like, last night.

how would you suggest they publicise it on a bank holiday at short notice?

They could have sent an email to BBC news and maybe put in it a rumour that someone from Saracens was trialling for us, that would have grabbed there attention.

The club IMO have done all they can and one or two fans have spread the word via a number of messageboards.

what difference does a bank holiday make?

Quite simple - the club should have a twitter feed - they could post the announcement on there. And/or on a club facebook site.

They can also update the club website and post on the VT and this messageboard.

Would take about 20 seconds and cost nowt. Not rocket science really is it?

As our Canadian based supporter says - mind you, I wouldn't have thought of some of his suggestions, never mind understood them!

Wayne, my point was that people from a good distance away were asking the question. They wanted to come to the game but didn't want to make a wasted journey. I couldn't even raise my club contacts on the 'phone, although I realise they are busy on a match day.

As a club we were in a good position to capitalise on the lack of RL anywhere else.

they did update the website, it said the match was on, if the match was off they would have updated it again saying so, its not brain surgery is it?

Enjoyed the game today. Got a few funny looks with my bulls hat and fleece on, which I assume were along the lines of "have you got lost?"



Nice close game though which was enjoyable for a neutral. Nice little ground too. Easy access, easy parking, nice place.

Glad you enjoyed the afternoon and result. Downside is no rail link within 100yds.

A positive vibe and a few quid in the coffers that the club would'nt have seen if not for Alan's ( and others ) postings on various websites........cost to the club = Nowt, cost to the LSV = Nowt..............the twitter idea is good too ...........time to think "outside the box".

Did you manage a drink and where did you go?

but thats the problem with the internet..if you are going to use it effectively, you have to keep it current, and "current" is measured in hours, if not minutes. This is especially true when the weather can turn nasty all of a sudden. I can understand why it may not be possible to have someone on hand capable of updating the website, which is where Twitter comes in...anybody can do it..

Now I am 36 and considered quite past it by those in their teens and early twenties. They are far more geared in to instant communication/updates through texting, mobiles, social networking sites. and if you want to crack that market you have to connect in that way...the good news is that most of it can be done at very little cost...

Nah, we got to the ground and went straight in, then got a coffee inside. Usually take the mother to games (it's great when the best treat you can give your mum is to take her to the rugby) and she was cold so didn't fancy messing around.

You owd bugg@r how the hell do you manage to work the internet so well

Telephones are a wonderous machine are they not? the ticket office was manned from 11:30am.

My computer must be slow - the message I'm reading was way back on 23/12/10, stating that the game would be on, providing there wasn't heavy snow. The people who contacted me, were from a fair distance away and they DID have snow. I had put my head above the parapet, by 'advertising' the game, and then couldn't give a definite answer, when asked if it was definitely on. Lesson well learnt - I'll leave the publicising of games to the experts in future!

As you probably know, I don't go in for slagging off the club - I'm merely stating my experience of ringing them, (before 11:30 as my contacts needed to set off by then) and two officials, who weren't answering their phones.

I hope others weren't put off from attending, by not knowing whether the game would be on or not.

Completely agree, with there being snow elsewhere then I fear those travelling from further afield might have assumed the game was at risk and not bothered making the trip just in case - regular updates are vital, especially as any sort of casual fan would check online before ringing the ticket office etc.

Course they would Matt.

Forget this media tripe. Can anyone please tell me how many first team players Salford had out today as they are claiming that was their reserves.

Well despite living in a very unusual part of Salford I know little about their team but I would say 8 or 9.

On a more serious note I think confirmation that todays game was definately on should have been on the official site first thing this morning.

Ratchford
Matty Smith
Boyle
Sidlow
Godwin
Nero

To be honest, no-one really knows much about team for the forthcoming season yet as there as so many new faces.
However, the 'reserves' comments are a slight exaggeration?! We were only really missing our foreign imports (injuries aside).

That said, I'm won't worry about the 2011 SL season because of today's performance.
(despite a Leyther posting on our board about how many Wigan would put on us this year, based on today's showing?!)

Gibson
Ratchford
Wild
Broughton
Neal
Jewitt

Did both Ratchford's play today? Didn't notice the other one??

Sorry tired after the cheering