129 to be exact .....

Ha! Nothing wrong with having a catch-up.

Although to be fair, it wouldn't have been a bad second half to miss from my point of view.





All I was pointing out was why on Earth would supposed grown men be wearing cardboard Burger King crowns to the match? Their jester hats must've been in the wash!

I'm going to guess that you're going off the tickets sold from Salford's ticket office there. Considering plenty of people I know bought tickets on the day or directly from St. Helens I'd say you need to add a few more on. We had 200 there at least, maybe a few more.

can you also provide the numbers of the trains through St Helens jumction and the buses as well you most exciting person of the year.

Saints new stadium is much closer to what I was hoping for for us than us Barton is. It's clear that the RL club have been involved from the start whereas the exact opposite is true for us.

Probably my favourite of the modern RL stadiums.

More so than the KC fella?

nice ground but i dont think they should of put us at the corner..Well annoyed with the police - put a complaint in how they through my mate out.grabbed him by the neck and through him on the floor kicking him out. yet saints fans were just as bad and nothing was done till the last 2 minutes

I think you fell 'victim' to three things: first of all, it was our official opening night and Saints sensed a decent turnout from home fans. Secondly, Salford never bring many (which I always think is astounding given we are just a straight trip down the East Lancs from each other) and so it was easy to relocate your fans in order to facilitate the sizeable number of Saints fans anticipated. Thirdly, the club had its knuckles rapped because the West Stand got overloaded at one end during the Widnes match and so a further capacity restriction was placed on attendance. It was much easier, therefore, to relocate Saints ticket buyers (as opposed to season ticket holders) to the away end given the previous two points (low attendance from Salford fans and it being our opening night).

As for the rest of your post ... unfortunately Salford fans, like Hull fans (and previously Warrington fans although not so in recent years), have a reputation for trouble which preceeds them, whether or not there was actually any trouble on Friday night. As an away fan it is poor form, not to mention stupid, to wind up the home support, especially on their stadium's opening night! So if those you know who were thrown out tried to do that then IMO it is always going to be the away fans who get the treatment. That would be the same if it was Saints fans winding up Salford fans at Salford.

Having watched Saints since 1975 I must admit I have never been aware of Salford fans having a reputation for trouble, not sure where that has come from. Personally never had any trouble at Salford over the years.

As for being stuck in the corner the fact is most of the rest of the ground bar the terracing in the EAST is sold out with season tickets. Given the volume of travelling support was c 300 it wouldnt have made sense to put Solly fans anywhere else .

You are, of course, joking, aren't you?



Give over. Winding up opposition supporters is part of what goes on at a sporting event. I've always enjoyed the fact that, at RL, you can give each other stick with no need for any police or stewarding intervention and then end up in the pub afterwards having a drink together. The same happened on Friday - aside from the dibble and stewards deciding to act like it was a football match. We'll be getting locked in after the final whistle, next.

KC more of a trek out of town and it's in Hull.