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| Hmm. Not a very productive contribution from me, I agree. Meh...
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| Sundays, for the love of God, Sundays. Getting home from Barton on a Friday night relying on public transport is going to be a bloody nightmare. I'll be sleeping in the Trafford Centre bogs I reckon!
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| Quote: GT "Getting home from Barton on a Friday night relying on public transport is going to be a bloody nightmare.'"
Will it be any easier on a Sunday evening?
Can't see either being much fun?!?
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| Personally couldn't care less now I only live a 15 minute walk away
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| I'd go with the Saturday evenings but it's probably very unlikely, aren't the weekend football times published months in advance (eg Sky/ESPN have bagsied their games to the end of November already), so fitting around them should be no problem. Getting across from Leeds on the Transpennine at 5pm puts me off along with the £25 entrance fee..
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| Quote: Fatboys Limb "Will it be any easier on a Sunday evening?
Can't see either being much fun?!?'"
I'd have more chance of making the last train home and/or getting home before midnight on a Sunday, let's put it that way!
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| Quote: Michigan red "Think it would depend on the public transport situation, not entirely sure that the buses will run often enough if you say want to have a pint in the Harvester if it opens, last thing you need is to get stranded there and have to walk back towards Eccles.'"
A Harvester pub would be the last place I would want to drink, plenty of choice in Peel Green and Patricroft.
I hope we play on Sundays but we can expect to have travel issues whenever we play. The M60 is a car park every evening and at the weekend and the rugby traffic will add to that. Anyone who commutes from Irlam knows how bad the traffic gets round Barton.
We all know that corporate sponsorship will dictate when we play.
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| Quote: right said father ted "A Harvester pub would be the last place I would want to drink, plenty of choice in Peel Green and Patricroft.
I hope we play on Sundays but we can expect to have travel issues whenever we play. The M60 is a car park every evening and at the weekend and the rugby traffic will add to that. Anyone who commutes from Irlam knows how bad the traffic gets round Barton.
We all know that corporate sponsorship will dictate when we play.'"
Used to leave work on a Friday @ 18:00 in Cheadle and never once did I see any traffic on the M60 clock wise heading home, rush hour starts earlier on a Friday now.
And there's not a single pub on the A57 I'd go in anymore really apart from Wangies when they have a decent band or two on, settle for Eccles RL or the Harvester.
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| I was speaking to someone at the club a few weeks back and they told me that they were planning that Fridays were going to remain the primary time for the majority of games - a kind of 'weekend starts here, pop to the Trafford Centre before or after for food and drink' type approach for new fans.
Hopefully the travel survey may have swayed that a bit though as I can't really see it working. I'd much prefer Sundays myself - my kids love going but Friday nights makes it just too late a night for them.
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| If that's the case ChorltonRed, the Club is being a little blinkered. They'll lose out on a lot of new Families and away support. The traffic alone will make even some home fans think twice. Let's hope they have a re-think.
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| I know weve had a debate on this thread already in the past but i really cannot find a single positive with friday night rugby. It has to be Sundays. JW has been reported in saying the Friday night matches will generate more income especially from a corporate point of view. I have to disagree. Surely having Friday night rugby we would lose at least 25% of the gate reciepts from both sets of supporters. That should make up the difference in corporate if indeed there is any difference.
Surely the club want to be playing in front of more people in our 1st season in this new stadium, its got to be their main objective to get the attendances up, so why choose Friday nights ?. If the format was sundays i would take my Mrs and 2 young children, but now they choose the Friday night slot i would attend alone, and i think a lot of families will do the same.
I.m totally mystified
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| Quote: Dantes Inferno "I know weve had a debate on this thread already in the past but i really cannot find a single positive with friday night rugby. It has to be Sundays. JW has been reported in saying the Friday night matches will generate more income especially from a corporate point of view. I have to disagree. Surely having Friday night rugby we would lose at least 25% of the gate reciepts from both sets of supporters. That should make up the difference in corporate if indeed there is any difference.
Surely the club want to be playing in front of more people in our 1st season in this new stadium, its got to be their main objective to get the attendances up, so why choose Friday nights ?. If the format was sundays i would take my Mrs and 2 young children, but now they choose the Friday night slot i would attend alone, and i think a lot of families will do the same.
I.m totally mystified'"
Agreed. Friday nights are going to keep families with young kids away, and away support from over the Pennines. I think it also limits the activities they could put on around the game to attract more supporters in, at least until the clocks go forward. A very poor decision for mine.
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| As much as I can understand why family’s will want to attend on Sundays I fully understand why the club has chose Fridays and I personally prefer them. The fact is it doesn’t matter what day we play on if we want attendances to improve we need to start wining games, a winning team will attract good attendances weather they play Friday Sunday or Saturday.
How many times during the season if we played on Sundays would we clash with United/City? Im not sure how many times we would clash but id hazard a guess at 3 or 4 games.
I bet if you compared Salford’s average attendances on Sundays compared on Fridays there would be very little difference, baring Catalan the last game as that was a one off. I would do this but don’t have the statistics to hand to work it out. Id actually like to know this as I may be wrong.
As for the corporate that will be a big chunk of out income stream so if we are going to get more money from corporate by playing Fridays then surely you would be stupid not to go along with it? At my work we have a corporate deal with Sale as they play Fridays if sale changed to a Sunday it wouldn’t work if you are a business man entertaining clients you want to do it on Friday after work not on a Sunday when you could be spending time with your family etc.
People also work on Sundays.
The fact is if you’re a fan you’re going to attend whenever they play. Our attendances will only get better if we become successful not by what day we play on.
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| The Original Red Devils. Sorry i strongly disagree. Why do you think we played Catalans on a sunday afternoon last season? It was because, if the fixture was played on the friday night, the attendance would of been well short of the 10147. Maybe around the 8000 mark.Thats the reason why the sunday afternoon was chosen by the club.
I also disagree with your comment regarding Salford supporters will attend no matter what day we play. Thats not true. I know supporters who pick and choose the games they attend due to the friday night fixture, obviously work and social happenings decide this.
However a winning team would do wonders for bums on seats i agree, but come on lets be realistic here, hope your not banking on a top eight finish.
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