Was wondering wether as part of a grand opening fixture we should get down some local sporting celebs and/or Salford born celebs in general, maybe a visit from Giggs being he has the freedom of our City and strong RL links could pay a visit and bring along a few of his team mates espeacially one Mr Rooney, you never know he might even take to the game ?
But of course the main reason would be to attract futher attention and get bums on seats early doors in the hope it gets people to return to our wonderful game, hopefully we could produce a performance to remember though unlike our last ever game at the grand old Willows ! ??

Assume first game will be Swinton?

Hope not, I'd much prefer to see a real rugby league team play rather than a semi pro two bit outfit.

Would hope for a Christmas time game against maybe Warrington to test the facilities out.

Why he's never bothered before, ? not to mention you'd have to lock up your wives and girlfriends with him on the prowl.

You there Saturday dinner? I had a look round with stoke on Trent red and somebody cycled past and joined in our conversation about Leeds v warrington just wondering if it was you or not?

Not me mate never talk to strangers in Dogging Hotspots , pretty much have a mooch round there Saturday lunch times and pop round on the bike to Asda.

Last week though I was off during the week and went the usual route and a car drove past me on the path that goes down the calan, so wondered if the big gates at either end are ever open and if they will be open when the stadium is finished.

Looked on the stadium website last night and see that parking will not be free on the site when there is a game on, that is totaly disgusting by the council if that is the case, talk about talking the mickey out of the fans who will already be paying over the odds for bad food and drink within the premises, you'd think they wanted to alienate the fans before we've even started playing there.

The gates are open sometimes but United Utillities were doing some work down there so i presmume they are in the area when the gate is open, it wasnt open saturday.

As for paying for using the parking on a match day, when i go to the KC, HJ, The stoop, JJB, Craven Park, Odsal and Gratham stadium i pay to park in a secure car park, why would our state of art facilities be any differnet?
Its Just because we are all used to parking on various streets in weaste for free its becomes an issue.
If its horrendus amount (say over £6) to park, park at the park and ride at the TC and divide that by the amount of people in your car and go with the cheapest option

Are there any free parking places within a reasonable walking distance?

depends on what you call resonable?
If the stadium do what salford did on a match day and put "residents parking only" on the streets running upto the new stadium you might need to walk from the roundabout @ eccles say a mile?

My Dad went on a tour last week of The Willows and then the new stadium. I've finally managed to get a few pictures off him but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to embed the actual image

Reds1982 did they say what colour the seats are?