This attendance figure is a disgrace, especially for a so-called heartland club. No excuse that the visitors were the lily-livered Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, from the dust bowl of west Yorkshire.

Even with a big tycoon billionaire racehorse owner as club owner, the Salford club cannot attract fans from the greater Manchester connurbation.

How much longer will the big hearted and deep pocketed Mr. Marwan Koukash put up with this, before he turns his attention more wholeheartedly to the NRL?

How much longer should the RFL put up with this?

More people at Batley this afternoon

Never mind the announced figure of 2,223, there were FAR more than that there. I was there, and there were more Bulls fans there today than there were people at Salford

Yep Bradford fans are enjoying themselves down here in the pit of eternal damnation

It shouldn’t be allowed Jean, the RFL should throw Salford out of the competition at the end of the season & fast track Toulouse straight in.

The flamboyant Dr must be scratching his head as to why the crowds aren’t flocking to see the S.L Galacticos ripping up the league.

At least he can look forwards to a bumper pay day when the Catalan hordes head into town

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Wakefield always have a decent away following also but that crowd is pathetic after the doc said there were no excuses not to attend

That is an interesting idea. You should present this proposal to Big Nigel.

He would probably go for it, as long as it was accompanied with a tin of Quality Streets.

Salford have never had a Massive hardcore support, you look at the league positions over the last few years. Then wen they get a half decent attendance, they get a hammering!

They have the potential to be getting 7k plus, they need to start having some success on the field and the crowds will come.

I suspect Jean is a little sexually frustrated since Lama Tasi broke Carney's ribs last week. He's been forced to stroke one garlic-infused ejaculate out over brochures advertising Toulouse, instead of everyone's fave tattooed pish drinker.

The mighty Trinity took a very respectable following to the game today, there were certainly more travelling Wakefield fans than there is when the Catalan cart horses plod anywhere other than the South of France

Salford are a dying club. They had a soul once at their old ground, but it was degraded by decade and decade of being terrible. The move to the new ground was supposed to be a new era, a rebirth of the club. The fans simply haven't allowed it to be a success. They are down to the bare bones of their support now and Marwan's calculations of his losses are ridiculously short of the mark. He'll lose millions a season and it's now solely on him to keep the club going. The most likely outcome is a continual struggle followed by either relegated and a London-esque existence where the owner still keeps the club technically alive on life support, or Marwan will pull out and they will disappear altogether. It's a difficult one, the location of the new ground isn't ideal, it's isn't close enough to the old ground and the team isn't worth supporting currently, so I don't blame the fans for not turning up.

Marwan should have played the longer game. Invested his money in the academy, got hundreds of kids signed up at youth levels and start bringing the premier NW talent through at Salford. In the meantime while he built from the bottom up he should have been giving away 5,000 tickets per home game and investing in getting the ground full enough to generate an atmosphere, even if no one was actually paying.

The RFL meanwhile seriously needs to start thinking about a plan b. Toulouse, a RFL backed Bradford, or take a punt on Leigh.

Koukash to Leigh? Did the rounds about 2/3 weeks ago, would make sense if he wants a real crack at RL