Dissapointed with the turnout last night.Not even 7 thousand.Would have thought to get about 8 thousand after last weeks great win .I bet there would have been a good few thousand more if that game would have been on a Sunday.Think all this negative talk about the car parking problems puts a lot of people off as well.

It was good to see that the Local BBC TV news didn't bother mentioning the match just the Warrington game, perhaps knowledge of the match may get people in.

What's this doing for your cash flow? Thought you needed 8k to break even?

How many times does this need saying??

The 8K figure, according to our chief exec, is what is needed to be able to pay up to the max salary cap - the break-even figure is therefore somewhat below that.

However, all that said it surely is disappointing that the crowds remain stubbornly low. There is an increase on previous year's attendances but not yet to levels that are needed if SCR are to be able to compete consistently with the top sides.

A return to Sundays would suit me..They say thats no good for the corporates, but surely an extra 2 thousand on the gate paying 20 quid would be better than a few hundred corporates ?

It was a poor crowd but not entirely unexpected. The damage was done at the start of the season when we shifted such a low amount of season tickets. We should be aiming to double that this off-season and build from there.

We also need to wean ourselves off shifting aload of freebies for every game. I'm not saying this from the 'why should season ticket holders pay when everyone is on a freemans' line, I'm saying it because they don't work. Invariably they fall into the hands of people who would pay to get into anyway. People who would potentially buy season tickets if they didn't think they could get in free every week. It also doesn't say much about the product we are offering if we are letting loads in for nothing. We should be focusing on promotional offers to entice the casual fan so that everyone who gets in the ground is actually paying something.

If we have around 4k home fans per game Salford need to target the 2k+ of these who don't have season tickets and convert them. Start the season with 4k season ticket holders and it would make a world of difference. There seems to be quite a new faces at Barton, I wonder if the club has any idea of how many fans haven't bothered coming since we moved from The Willows and if they have done anything to entice them back?

Why not try something radical next season and cut the admission price to £15 and back ourselves to increase crowds by 25% to cover the potential lost revenue. At present we are going down the same old tried and failed path of attempting to squeeze as much money as we can out of the hardcore support coupled by away fans from the bigger clubs and hoping we can make marginal gains year-on-year. A big push on season tickets coupled with the cheapest entry fee in the League could have a real impact and give us the crowd boost we are in desperate need of. A reduced entry fee may also encourage some of the increased away support we have seen this year decide to return. At present our crowds are inflated by huge away support increases that are unlikely to last and by a large amount of free tickets that earn us little if anything.

The Sunday issue is also something that needs to be looked at. We clearly need to be wary of the lost corporate revenue that Salford assure us would come from not playing on a Friday but in the long run it'll be bigger attendances that are going to keep us in Super League and help us move forward. I'm not a great Sunday convert but Barton is not the most accessible ground on a Friday night to say the least. We need to do something to break the current stagnation. In 2009 we got 7,016 against Wigan at The Willows, feel free to use your % increase calculator on that.

Excellent post Walsh, I think you've hit the nail on the head. As an aside last season we only managed 6,266 so last night was a decent increase on that by over 500.

Great post Washovski, too sensible a post, just wish the Salford board & the management of the stadium could show such simple analysis of the issues & how to tackle them.

A decent increase by who though? There was no increase in home support that's for sure. Last night Wigan were pushing 3k there which means there was roughly just over 3.5k home fans

The whole Club in my opinion as increased ten fold, playing a brand of rugby which is great to watch. I thought the disallowed try for Williams last night would of been the try of the game if it stood, that alone is worth the entrance fee.

The new Stadium is fine in my opinion, apart from the obvious parking issues. I think if you get a good run in the CC or the PO's, you will get some well deserved backing from more locals.

I think Gareth Owen is shaping up to be a great player.

In which case we best get him signed up quick before he gets an offer off another club! His contract runs out at the end of the season