Obviously it depends on when, where and what medium you advertise. At our place we’ve just paid £2,700 for a month’s worth of digital ads on the Manchester Evening News website and Greater Manchester Business Week.

To give you an example, I’ve just looked at the availability of public advertising for the two weeks leading up to the Hull game on July 22nd. An advert shown once per minute on a digital screen in a single pub (one of those little ones near the bar) in town can be had for £20 per week. Most bus shelters in Salford can be had for £120 per week. The billboard next to Aldi in Eccles can be had for £300 per week. And a billboard on the M602 can be had for £1,350 per week.

The issue is scale. So lets say you did 3 well exposed billboards, 10 lesser seen billboards, 30 bus shelters, 10 digital screens, and ran a targeted Facebook ad campaign. You’re looking at around £20,000 for advertising during that fortnight. You could reduce the exposure to spend less, but the campaign is more likely to be missed.

While Salford lacks a centre, what it does have lots of is smallish festivals, fun/ family days etc May - September.

I had suggested to Vickers ( which he said was happening, but didn't) was to buy a decent sized side opening trailer, get it professionally wrapped, add a decent LCD TV showing some highlights and big hits and get Mitsubishi to lend us a decent 4x4.

Get it to the festivals with some Academy players talking to people about RL, flyers for the next game, run some competitions to get contact details, have some merchandise and tickets to sell! You could prob even find some volunteers to help for a free top. ( Eg Irlam live is coming up soon, with a decent line up, but I bet the club will miss the opportunity to engage directly with thousands on their doorstep who actually pay to go to events and have some disposable income)

Apart from the festivals get it to media city, the Lowry etc and places outside Salford occassionally and on match days use it as a club shop at the stadium.

My guess is it could be done well for a one off £20-30k which a decent opportunity to get get Raging Bull, Mitsubishi and the Lowry to chip in.

You can have all the advertising you want it goes out the window, when you get there and see a load of tripe.

So Red Eyes Are you saying that the rugby on offer this season has been a load of tripe?

Well its the best quality tripe I have seen for some years at Salford. Maybe we could get UCP to sponsor us.

I think this firm would do well in Salford: ucpuk.co.uk/

I think this firm would do well in Salford: ucpuk.co.uk/

Your correct the UCP tripe shop opposite Pendleton Church was always top quality.

For someone who saw the seventies side yes it's mostly tripe.it certainly was tripe at Cas in the cup. Yes I am still going,although I know a lot who are not. Instead of having ago at me you want to do a little survey,and ask people why they have stopped going.They might tell you it's tripe.

Not having a go at you at all,I was just clarifying a point.
I feel that we have been playing decent rugby most of the time and for short periods we haven't,for which we have been punished,but that is Rugby League.
The seventies was a great time to be a Salford fan but even then the crowds were far from being the best and on some occasions we were beaten by worse sides and even then we had people in the popular side stand passing comments that David Watkins was too small and Kenny Gill was too slow and Albert Lucketti was the fastest man at the Willows.

The Club is going in the right direction on the field. If we didn't have the points deduction we'd be sitting comfortably in the top half of the table. We've certainly not played tripe this year. Inconsistent. Sure. Poor on occasions. Sure. Tripe? Nope. Not at all. We can't go around comparing everything to the side in the seventies, different time, different game. We should compare ourselves to where we were last year, and the year before.

If we have fans that still watch matches but still see 'tripe' then I don't really know what to say. It says a lot about our fans on the other hand...

Apathy , who does he play for ? is he Greek ?...

We constantly hinder ourselves,
we have effectively squandered the impact of moving to a new stadium , went bust , then shouted from the rooftops when the new owner arrived , but signed 'unsuitable ' players and wallowed in the lower reaches for the last two years.

finally with a stable coaching set up & a hardworking & effective team , we have lost the drive to promote , and when we do get the opportunity to broaden our appeal & reach out to new fans , its the ' wrong news ' ( 4th rnd loss to Cas - point deductions etc ) .

its not apathy , its resignation .