The crowd was 50% up on the corresponding fixture from last season.

What more can you ask for?
If it had been on another day, without snow it might have been higher, but 5k+ in that weather on Friday night TV game isn't bad at all.

If Salford keep up that level of increase there will be a lot of embarrassed pundits about.

As for Huddersfield, it isn't a standalone club but it is moving their and that's ultimately the long term goal. I'd suggest that only Leeds and Wigan could truly claim to be standalone.

Oh and no way did 1500 Cas fans travel. It always amazes me the sheer stupidity of numbers suggested for away fans in these situations.
500 Cas fans tops.

you are right i underestimated it ,the club chaiman has just put out a statement saying we sold over 1800 tickets.

Correct.

You have to admit though, these parochial scenes of well-meaning but inept match-day organisation don't do us any favours when they're on the telly.

I doubt it.

If I'd been given free tickets to an outdoor sport I'd never had any previous interest in, and the weather was as bad as it was for Salford/Cas, and I had *any* other distraction than work to keep me warm and indoors on a Saturday night, I'd not have gone. Imagine if it wasn't RL, but lacrosse or shinty. Would you have bothered?

Free tickets aren't enough - there has to be some incentive. In that kind of weather you need a better incentive than when it's warm, sunny and pleasant to be outdoors.

Right. The weather was awful, the crowd was probably 2-3k less than was expected due to the weather.

I'd love to know how many watched the Sale v someone game, I reckon there was around 6-700 people there but I bet it's advertised as around 8000.

Re Starbugs point about crowds, I see the point, but in Australia Gold Coast finished bottom and their crowds were 15k Parramatta the same, in fact all of the other team with no hope of the play offs attendances were good.

Good grief do people still compare uk crowds to Aussie crowds? why?

Might as well compare Saints to Liverpool FC.

Again, Salford had a 50% increase on the same game last season. How is that not excellent?

Summer Rugby my , I was cold watching it and it's summer in Australia (didn't get below 21c last night)

I didn't, I compared the situation teams who won't make the playoffs like Salford with the closest comparison, which is the situation with Gold Coast and Parramatta.

Sorry if this caused you any upset.

I'll tell you why it's not excellent! Last year, we had just won 3 in a row and Cas had lost 7 on the bounce! We only got 3500 cos Cas fans did not travel! Don't use that as a benchmark for claiming 5200 in a new stadium is excellent!
And Cas did bring 1500 easy, if not then the crowd was only 4200!!!!!
Either way we had 2700 paying Salford punters which is less than the corresponding fixture last year!

Quote: Code13 "The crowd was 50% up on the corresponding fixture from last season. What more can you ask for? If it had been on another day, without snow it might have been higher, but 5k+ in that weather on Friday night TV game isn't bad at all. If Salford keep up that level of increase there will be a lot of embarrassed pundits about. As for Huddersfield, it isn't a standalone club but it is moving their and that's ultimately the long term goal. I'd suggest that only Leeds and Wigan could truly claim to be standalone. Oh and no way did 1500 Cas fans travel. It always amazes me the sheer stupidity of numbers suggested for away fans in these situations. 500 Cas fans tops.'" www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2060 That stand was nearly full and hold just over 2,000 I'm led to believe.

Quote: Code13 "The crowd was 50% up on the corresponding fixture from last season. What more can you ask for? If it had been on another day, without snow it might have been higher, but 5k+ in that weather on Friday night TV game isn't bad at all. If Salford keep up that level of increase there will be a lot of embarrassed pundits about. As for Huddersfield, it isn't a standalone club but it is moving their and that's ultimately the long term goal. I'd suggest that only Leeds and Wigan could truly claim to be standalone. Oh and no way did 1500 Cas fans travel. It always amazes me the sheer stupidity of numbers suggested for away fans in these situations. 500 Cas fans tops.'" www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2060 That stand was nearly full and hold just over 2,000 I'm led to believe.

Having already been in that stand with 4/500 leythers ,there were around 1,4/500 Cas fans in that stand last night, it holds around 2,000

Yes Huddersfield are moving forward, but if you chuck 10/15 million at most clubs, they would eventually start to get there, another 10/15 to go and they might win something and break 10/12,000 occaisionally

Given the conditions and the fact the game was being shown live on SKY 5200 was a decent attendance. With the same circumstances I'd be surprised if the Willows would have got more than about 3000.

Given more favourable conditions and games against some of the big teams who will bring considerably more supporters I wouldn't be surprised to see attendances approaching 5 figures on occasions.

The stand that Cas fans were in holds 2500.

Would say Cas had about 1500 there taking into account a section of the away stand was closed off for the big screen.