I don't think it's about who we play it's more of inviting people to watch the game to start with, people from Gorton Droylsden won't have a clue if dewsbury are good or not? We MUST try this its better than sitting still hoping, if crowds don't rise were finished.

You’re just talking sh*t now.

Who said we’re guaranteed 20,000 attendances at every game and what logic is there in regulars staying away? If it was a normal away game you would go, so why not travel 10 miles across Manchester in a bid to market the club to a new audience. It will be easy to enough to judge how many new fans turn up, as we have a reasonable yardstick from the attendance last season v Widnes at home in the Challenge Cup which was 2,600 (with around 800 Widnes fans – I am sure club will know exact figure).

If we were to play a one-off game at the Etihad, a success (opposition dependent) would be any increase in attendance from above game as well as attracting any people into the ground that haven’t previously watched a RL game.

I’ll keep supporting the clubs positive marketing ideas, you keep concerning yourself with obtaining “top red” status.

If I'm right then, in fairly recent times, the biggest crowd we've had as a club was the last day at the Willows where we got 10,000 in. With this in mind why do Koukash and Vickers feel the need to take the club as far away from our ancestral home as possible? He's said himself it's a community game unlike football. Most of us could walk to the ground when we were at the Willows. Why is the club emphasis now on getting us as far away from Weaste as possible?

Yep too many fans letting their Salford faithful status get in the way of logic.

If crowds don't rise we're finished? I agree, but lets not pretend moving a cup game to another stadium will have them flocking in. Widnes (who are widely regarded as the model super league 'franchise') made the play offs last year as well as a cup semi final, yet only averaged 800 fans per game more than Salford. If Salford made 8th plus a cup semi next season we would more than likely make up this difference. Sadly any quest for attendances to instantly double is unlikely to happen. Just look at Huddersfield's crowds. Perhaps they should move a game to Leeds?

The magic weekend comparison is interesting. Perhaps the club have already missed their best chance of attracting a M/CR audience by failing to advertise to M/CR locals the chance to watch their 'local' side in a premiership football stadium. I'm sure this would have been a more attractive proposition than what is currently being proposed.

You keep stalking him in the VIP section every week, then report back to the forum to let everyone know you were 'chatting to Koukash' at the weekend.





Are you being serious with this comment? No offence but you are the biggest Koukash lauder on twitter.

If there were to be a cup game at another venue somewhere in Manchester, then that would be the time to attempt to generate a big crowd with heavily discounted tickets.
Doing that away from our normal home base has the possibility of attracting new fans and given a good performance hopefully getting those new fans to want to see more.
It's certainly a tad depressing to read that Salford fans want such a venture to fail - isn't it blindingly obvious that if the crowds don't increase to sustainable levels over the next season (or hopefully 2 seasons) then we won't have a club to watch at all?

just like you all were for that waste of space Wilkinson, Koucash has built the best team since Snape he's getting out there in the community spreading the word and now because he's trying something new to attract new fans people moan. Stop with all this Salford or nothing crap?

Exactly how people without tunnel vision see it.

I agree with Talent Spotter. I feel like too many fans are simply agreeing with this for the sake of it. None of you suggested this before it was announced so how come some of you are so in favour of it now?

Ever since the idea of the fans panel was selected, too many people have been using this forum and twitter to prove themselves to the new regime.

At the end of the day, from my experience on here (other account) I tend to find that not all of the people who claim to go to games actually do so. It might be a nice one-off experiemnt for the club but as a fan if you really want the club moved to Manchester permanently I have to question if you even support the club sadly.

You show me anyone who has said they'd really want to??? We're saying it's a good idea to attract new fans, and if it were a choice between a club or no club then I'd take moving away, then the rest of all you supposed faithful can go make a break away (Fc United type club) and go watch them on rabbit hills.

Oh dear, sounds like you’re the one doing the stalking. I recall speaking with Koukash once last season and that was because we sponsored a game and he came over for a brief chat and to thank us.



Who is saying they will flock in? You love to sensationalise things don’t you, as has been mentioned before an increase on 2,600 spectators would be a success.



Widnes population 58,000 – Salford population 234,000. I’ll let you work out who is doing a better job at attracting spectators.



I don’t think anybody is wanting attendances to instantly double, but they should be and need to be over and above the 6,500 figure as a minimum.