They failed to sufficiently promote the game. They should have known that Salford's fan base would never be enough to make up for the lack of effort on the marketing team's behalf.

Would've took 6k before the tournament began. As mentioned however the bar has been raised since the tournament began with crowds elsewhere. It seems the north west RL fans prefer LSV to Salford Stadium judging by the attendance figures.

Let's be honest, that was a decent enough crowd tonight. It only seems relatively poor in comparison to some of the other amazing attendances achieved so far.

Not that I'm biased(!), but I was on the back row of the South Stand tonight and the view is nowhere near as good as even being halfway up the North Stand at Leigh. Must say though that the experience this time around was far better than my last visit which was when Leigh were there for the opening game the other year. No problems parking at Eccles RL and straight on to the motorway afterwards, and the catering was much better organised than other venues have been.

It wasn't an awful crowd but after going to the other local games and seeing much bigger crowds I would have hoped for more, especially with it being a british team. Salford is notorious for getting in and out of so maybe that put people off, although parking at eccles RL did a good job for me. I don't know :/ Although the fact that 6000 between Scotland and USA is being frowned upon just shows how well the world cup is doing.

Yeah Eccles RL is the best spot for parking. The view from the terracing is poor as stated however we did seem surprisingly switched on catering wise compared to some of the other venues.

Was chuffed that I saw they were selling Deuchar's on the concourse...until I remembered I was driving! Pies are good as well, the same supplier as Rochdale.

Good pies at Salford.

It's a poor crowd in comparison to those especially achieved at Rochdale, Leigh and Workington and is looking like one of the worst ones of the lot. However Limerick and Neath's crowds I expect to be pretty low this weekend.

Keyboard warriors are the best

They had Deuchars on?! I saw the people walking round selling John Smiths and Fosters and assumed that was the extent of the beer available tonight. Damn!

The same way only 6800 on Monday night was Hull KRs fault.
RL fans init.

I'd say 6k was a bad effort, but having never been to the new stadium, i can understand why now so many are critical of it, well not necessarily the stadium, but the access!

There is no stations within 2 miles of the ground, which is poor for actual trains itself, 1 an hour, isn't good enough in my personal opinion. The shuttle buses stopped 45 minutes before the game.
The Car parks were closed, and whilst walking, there are no footpaths to access the very popular Trafford Centre, which i was told 'is being built', only 3 seasons in ay boys!
Upon arriving at Irlam, I was told 'Shuttle Buses have stopped now, i'm afraid', this was at about 19:05, resulting in us missing kick off. Upon returning to the station, the train was delayed by 20 minutes, meaning missing our connection!

It may not be an actual gripe with the club itself, but they sit there, and wonder why their crowds are so low? It's because its so hard to get to!
The tram runs to the Trafford Centre, why not stretch it the extra mile to the ground?


Nevertheless, the second bad decision out of 3 of this world cup so far, sadly, and that was giving the game to Salford, (the others being Giving two to Hull KR and one in Ireland). It may of only been a 'rubbish' game, but given the fact that Scotland needed to win to stay in, and that USA were a surprise package, it was an appealing game, and a town like Castleford, Wakefield or Doncaster could have easily packed it out, other towns like St. Helens could have certainly done better than that too.

Oh Well, water under the bridge! We move on to what will be a big crowd tomorrow at Headlingley! Come on the Kumuls!

We were there last night, horrible stadium in a horrible location with horrible access.

Textbook example of why stadiums need to be close to town centres.

Nothing anybody could say or do would convince me that the attendance given was accurate. Anybody who went... think about whether you could have doubled that crowd and managed to fit them all in... as the capacity suggests that we could have done... Not a chance. Plenty over the attendance given.

Why would they announce a lower attendance than it really was, what benefit would they get from that? And don't mention for tax reasons, this isn't 1976.