What was meant to be one of the best, most exciting nights of my 40+ years watching Salford is my nadir!
We can't use the excuse that people won't turn up cos we play at the willows, that their cars might get knicked or that they can't get a decent pint!
Well, you may get a decent pint but your car certainly won't get knicked cos there is nobody about to knick it at this new gaff!
In short, after all the hype, the 10 years planning, the utter drivel spoken by fans on here claiming how hard done to we are, only 2700, yes 2700, paying Salford fans turn up!
Before you start, there were at least 1600 Cas fans, 600 corporates and 300 kids for free tkts in a crowd of 5250!
Ah it must have been the weather! Well it didn't stop the 25000 going to Trafford centre the other side of the sewage farm! We don't own the ground, don't get the tkt money, don't get the corporate!
Forgive me for being down, it's a disaster!

THIS could end up being the BIGGEST white elephant of all time,i`m sick and tired of saying it,the problem isnt the team,its the people running it.

Hear hear!

I don't think your council would have payed for it if they thought it was going to be a white elephant

What the fook has shoppers going to the Trafford Centre got to do with a game of RL at the new stadium ?
Shocking attendance I agree but would you pay to watch that if you were a neutral or newbie when its on telly, its snowing and it its -5 in the ground with the wind chill.
Until we have a team that can win on a regular basis or a sugar daddy ala Warrington then expect more of the same

It's snowing, minus 5 and still 25000 go to Trafford centre! That's what!

What i think shedite is trying to explain is the weather didn't deter 25000 shoppers attending the TC so it shouldn't deter supporters attending the game.....

Its indoor they have gone to shop and not watch a RL game

Well it fookin stopped you didnt it before the snow even came

so whats going to be your next excuse when we play catalans in mid summer,to fooking hot for the supporters to turn up,or is it knowbody in Salford knows their playing.Now please tell me whos fault is that,mine,no dantes inferno,lets blame him.Excuses Excuses time after time.Get real.

What happened to the massive advertising push, don't tell me 2 pages in the advertiser was the push......unbelievable.....I live in Pendlebury and i have neighbours who have never heard of this new stadium.....

No It wasn't the snow what stopped me coming, i won't put a penny into JW'S pocket again with his pathetic mismanagements.

You are Dantes inferno lover and I claim my £5.00

Are 'mities mouse' and 'shedite' the same person playing Good Cop/ Bad Cop with him/herself?

Its just that all these silent 'k' spelling mistakes are appearing in kboth. Hmm

Who Cares What You Think!

(Not Nice Is It)

You are Adamsons relative's ( Lyrad Red ) lover, and i claim my £5.00

CAN`T answer the question ,easy so fooking easy.

Mitie mouse and dantes inferno! We are obviously blessed with the ability to look at things in a balanced way! As a newcomer to this particular forum but as a veteran of over 1000 matches I feel qualified to comment and it's not always rosy! The best businesses have the ability to look at themselves to move on, we don't!
However, as we are apparently the same person, then impressive work as we(me) posted something on another topic at exactly the same time! Obviously blessed with more intelligence as

I have to say I ' felt ' for you last night, yes your marketing has been abysmal, the stadium isn't an ideal design , and in truth not long finished, you have had the off season issue of your coach,

But to then plan an event, and have the weather basically detroy it, really is quite the worst luck you can imagine

You have a huge job on your hands to build a viable SL club, and I dont think you have the right people to achieve it, you need a coach, a CEO with the vision and ability to entice the local population of the area into the stadium, I hope you have more luck in that than you had last night

Many thanks! To sum up, it's not me telling everyone we need to move grounds and then it will magically turn round overnight and 10000 will turn up......it's the hierarchy as you say! Despite Wilkes loyalty he has not got the right people round him so he is shafted!
To allow SKY to show a more than half empty stadium and all the teething problems associated with it is absolute farce! Give the flipping things away but at least show an occasion! Forget 10000 at the willows for last match, half of them had gone after 50 mins when we were 30 points down.....this is the business end as they say, and as I say, there are "no more excuses"!!!

DI: We have no excuse, we know we don't have good support or a particularly good proactive board but some want to fight to change this? we have a fighting chance with a new stadium & I for one want to get behind the club.
I have respected your right to your views but your becoming a little boring, how many times do you want to say the same thing.

The whole thing was a joke from start to finish, even before a ball was kicked it was an embarrassment all the fireworks and wires left around the pitch and in the in goal area, one of the cas players picking up a large piece of cardboard from under the snow was the highlight of this charade, all live on sky as well typical Salford.

They did on the first night in Wrexham, when the weather was about as bad, although I suppose there was curiosity value.

There are positives though, because you have now have the product, rugby league, plus the facilities, and so you can begin to spread the word. If you had attracted all the curious last night, they would have sat through a poor game wrecked by conditions and been absolutely freezing. They would have gone home saying "never again". At least you can build support and attract them when it will be a more pleasant experience, and then get them hooked.

It seems I was right last week predicting the surfacing of plenty of limping gimps procrastinating on the end of the world after the Castleford game. I suppose it comes as no surprise.

As for the game, not much point in reading anything into it. The terrible conditions conspired to steer the game down into an arm wrestle for position and dominated by plays around the ruck. We were always going to struggle due to the lack of quality forwards to compete in a forward battle. Add to this the nerves and pressure of trying to deliver on the first game of the season it's not hard to see why the result went the way it did. Cas were better equipped to deal with things and took their chances.

Anyone who thinks that one game is indicative of all future performances needs to have a serious re-think about their grip on reality.

The crowd wasn't good but I'm sure the conditions played a large part in it as well as Sky televising it. The 'Big' build-up seemed to be an anti-climax and I'm sure the Stadium Company/Club should have a big sit down and reassess what is good and what is cringe-worthy.

A man with a wheelbarrow collecting the remnants of a somewhat random pyrotechnic display.