Just got home from a few days away that started in St Helens on Friday.

Whatever the mistakes that Salford have made with their stadium, St Helens haven't.

Everything about Langtree Park is absolutely spot on. It's location is a 10 minute walk from the town centre, it has all the facilities you'd expect from a modern stadium. Tesco is right next door, there's plenty of free parking. The atmosphere is electric and it's an attractive, welcoming building.

Every time we've been to Saint's new ground we've been impressed - well done.

I dunno much about the ins and outs, but, this being the internet, I'll have a speculate anyway... The internet is never short of people to correct me when I'm wrong.

I suspect that the ground was a (with hindsight) poor business decision, but one made at a time when the club probably didn't have a ton of good options on the table. The good Doctor, while I don't always like the way he conducts himself in public, is a shrewd business man, and probably had the agreement to build the new ground been made on his watch it would look very different.

It's slightly surprising that some of our Salfordian visitors take umbridge at the criticisms, despite apparently having the same criticisms themselves. I like to see more strong, sustainable clubs in SL, and I hope Salford find a way to make it work.

Living, as I now do, near Coventry, I see that moving to a shiny new plastic ground away from your club's soul is sometimes a very short-term win. I can't help thinking that competing for the hearts and minds of some of the people from Weaste and surroundings would be a lot easier if you were sat on their doorsteps. Actually moving so that Manchester United are much closer to them, as well as having greater pulling power, seems a bit suicidal.

Well there's me for a start.

Always seems to be a decent queue at the cash turnstiles when I do go to games, which is what I'd class as walk-ups. People who haven't bought a season ticket and have decided - often on the day of the game - to turn up anyway.