I was pretty surprised when 6,500 was announced. I'd have guessed around 8ish. My only thoughts were maybe they have only announced the number of tickets sold. There was a ton of kids' teams there who I imagine got in for free; maybe these weren't counted on the attendance? Just a thought, because it definitely looked like more than just over half full.

Maybe the count was made after the Wigan walk has started



Said yesterday that is the biggest crowd I've seen for a Salford game, it was bewildering though that even though it was obviously going to be a big crowd they had cut back on the outside sales.

Nearly, just always nearly.

The free tickets are all scanned so should be counted. But I guess may be recorded differently on the system for income purposes so could be something to do with that??

The kids had been playing at a Salford organised festival. All kids who played got a free ticket but accompanying adults had to pay. Great to see how much the pro club are building links with the amateur clubs. Been needed for years. Not perfect yet but much improved

I decided at about 1 yesterday to come to the game and spoke to both the club and ticket master about tickets. Was told the east stand was completely sold out. If you're right about the capacity being 12k then there's no way there was less than 8,000 there. Maybe the clubs trying to keep it's tax bill down!

Whatever the ticket office said, the East stand was never sold out - Unless a lot of people paid for tickets and never turned up.

What I cannot figure out, is, do the season ticket holders count on the attendance figures, as the money for them has already been paid to the club. When the good doctor said he needed 5000 to break even, on a match day, that must of mean't 5000 paying customers .
So if yesterday did not include season ticket holders (do we have 2500 season ticket holders ?) that could mean there were approx 9000 there yesterday, because, do they scan the season tickets differently from bought tickets ?
Or is the count, all the clicks going through the turnstiles ?
I don't know does anyone out there know ?

Season tickets are counted.

With the stadium company being in charge of normal ticket sales and giving out the attendance figure, yet the club selling the hospitality tickets separately, I wonder if this is where the potential discrepancy comes in with regards to the published crowd figures? Let's face it the communication between club and stadium on most issues is virtually non existent so it wouldn't be a surprise.

Bizarrely Mr Vickers on twitter stated the stadium capacity is 10308, yet the listed record attendance is an alleged 11247 for Sale vs Leicester.

We're bringing in 1000 guests for hospitality? I find that hard to believe.

Quote Talent Spotter="Talent Spotter" Bizarrely Mr Vickers on twitter stated the stadium capacity is 10308, yet the listed record attendance is an alleged 11247 for Sale vs Leicester.'" On the stadium website it shows the capacity at 11500 but why build a stadium less than 12K when it was the minimum criteria for a Superleague licence? The council and Peel, penny-pinching perhaps to save on a couple of rows of concrete? It would be interesting to know what figure was in the lease agreements between the SMC and the clubs? All these links show 12K but has it just been a smokescreen? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ru ... y_capacity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_En ... y_capacity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ_Bell_Stadium www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24079365 https://www.salford.gov.uk/salfordcitystadiumarea.htm www.peel.co.uk/leisure/development/scs

Quote Talent Spotter="Talent Spotter" Bizarrely Mr Vickers on twitter stated the stadium capacity is 10308, yet the listed record attendance is an alleged 11247 for Sale vs Leicester.'" On the stadium website it shows the capacity at 11500 but why build a stadium less than 12K when it was the minimum criteria for a Superleague licence? The council and Peel, penny-pinching perhaps to save on a couple of rows of concrete? It would be interesting to know what figure was in the lease agreements between the SMC and the clubs? All these links show 12K but has it just been a smokescreen? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ru ... y_capacity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_En ... y_capacity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ_Bell_Stadium www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24079365 https://www.salford.gov.uk/salfordcitystadiumarea.htm www.peel.co.uk/leisure/development/scs

Having a quick look back, when Warrington beat Huddersfield in the CC Semi there back in 2012, the crowd announced was 9,473

[urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Challenge_Cup[/url & [urlhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jul/15/warrington-huddersfield-challenge-cup[/url

Compare the crowd in this video and something clearly isn't adding up for me?

[urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L35UWA24Hs[/url