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Good offer, it is good to see Salford do things like this to try and get the crowds in.

[iFantastic offer

Here's hoping we get our biggest attendance so far on Easter Monday at Barton.[/i

If that doesnt help your crowds nothing will, i was at the game Friday and thought the atmosphere was a little low from your speccies but rome wasnt built in a day but with Sale moving in they are going to be the bigger draw when it comes to the floating fan i have nothing but fear for your club once Sale are getting 10k each week.

Theres nothing to say Sale will bring 10,000 fans. It may be that the support they gained around South Manchester wont travel to Barton. And dont forget, they will have the same problems with car parks etc as us, maybe putting their fans off as well..

I agree. There seems to be a few Sale fans feeling a little alienated by what their club are doing at the minute. Sadly though, I think they'd be more than capable of attracting new fans to Barton - much more than us, like that time they played in Bolton.

Problem is Sale have a professional and very good marketing team behind the scenes, so even if they do leave some fans behind they are bound to attract others from around the local area. This is one of my biggest fears, Sale are in competition with us to grab the new fan so to speak, a fan who's unsure about the two codes and how different they are will no doubt be drawn to Sale (even though rugby league is by far the better product on field) because they have the resources and skill to do. Knowing Salford we'll just sit back and watch Sale nick all our potential support from under our noses.

We need to get fans in now and get them bitten by the rugby league bug. The offer the club has put on for the KR is a step in the right direction, but still a lot more needs to be done before its too late.

You forgot to mention that they have lots of money to back those campaigns up too. IIRC, the RFU also threw some money at them to both stage and promote the game at the Reebok and it wouldn't surprise me if the RFU make regular marketing contributions to them, can you imagine the RFL doing that for us, or any RL team for that matter? I think the RFL need to adopt a similar position to the RFU - who recognise that Sale are their only North West Premiership side surrounded by big name RL clubs trying to 'break' that dominance.

Sale aren't really targetting us Salford fans, they're targetting anyone with a sporting interest in Greater Manchester - our target audience too of course, but their ambition is wider than ours as they're promoting the whole game of RU against RL whereas we're pitching in an already saturated market, e.g. despite Salford being the closest SL club to Rochdale on the right side of the Pennines, I'm the only Salford supporter at my 8 year old Son's amateur club, there's Saints, Leeds, Bradford and Wigan fans there (now that has a familiar look doesn't it?) and their kids follow those teams but the real irony is that only my Son regularly goes to watch SL live, there was even an advert in the Oldham Chronicle last week for a Hudds Giants game. Those examples show that we can't ever hope to lure existing fans away from Saints, Wigan, Warrington etc. and the RFL need to understand how really bloody difficult it is even if Sale weren't in the mix and to some extent, they're the least of our worries. I think that if the RFL want a 'Manchester' conurbation team, i.e. us to succeed and pull in more fans then they should help us to at least mirror, or up the ante on, any marketing that Sale do and additionally declare Manchester, Salford and it's satellite towns a 'no go' zone for marketing for ALL other SL clubs.

I've just rang the ticket office to see if I can transfer my season tickets to the East stand for the game as my brother has purchased a family ticket via this offer but was told it is highly unlikely as the East stand is nearly full already. Sounds like a good crowd could be in the offing!!

or the usual ticket office rugby league sell out crowd of 50% capacity.

the only problem i see with big crowds is that we play s41t in front of them

If we are loking towards the play offs we need to be beating those around us and that will apply to Hull KR. Looking forward to a good competitive game and a high scoring game weather permitting as we both seem to be conceding a lot of points at the moment.

Although the West Stand was supposed sold out for the Leeds game.

rlIf this isn't throwing the towel inrl he has failed on the pre-game psychology.