I can sort of understand seaon ticket holders being annoyed at people around them getting in for free, although personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If watching Salford at the Willows was made free for everyone I would still happily donate y £160 (or whatever it was) each year to the club.

Any season ticket holders who are feeling down about this should perhaps remember that your £160 paid for a new Salford jersey, free entrance to all Academy fixtures, free entry to our first (and probably only?!) Cup game and half price tickets for the Magic Weekend.

Once you subtract all of that (as well as the warm feeling you get by being a ST holder?!) we're not paying all that much for each game we watch at home.

and one final thought on this........

After Friday's game, maybe people attending for the first time on a freebie [iWILL[/i be keen to attend another RL game as a paying spectator.....

.........but it's almost certain that they'll go to the JJB and [inot [/ireturn to The Willows.

The two I brought want to come again the young lad even wants a shirt (Not that he can get one!)

when i first went to both united and salford, united were getting relegated and salford were champions.
but the football still had far greater support.

That's not my point. Sport in general, with vastly increased TV and news coverage is much higher profile that at any time in the past, and as a result of unprecedented local success I'm suggesting that we have a generation of sports fans locally to whom winning is all that matters - people who would much rather see us beat Swinton by 70 points than lose to Saints by 2. We also have a local "armchair" culture that we have to overcome, as people have become increasingly used to "supporting" their team without going to games to the extent that watching sport in the flesh doesn't really cross their minds.

now that i agree with, and to be honest it's the reason i have started going to salford regular (season ticket holder for 3 seasons)
because i could no longer afford a season ticket at united as my 2 lads wanted to go, so i get myself, my dad (who still has his old trafford season ticket) my 2 lads and nephew a salford season ticket for the price of a united.
because i think you should go and watch your team.

That's the best post I've read on here for months.

I saw two mates at the game yesterday that I've not seen for a long time. They've certainly not been on the Willows for a good few number of years. It turns out they're the lottery anyway to support the club and got a pair of these tickets. They came to the game and, as far as I'm aware, enjoyed themselves. Service in the Tavern aside, anyway.

Whether they'll come back or not I'm yet to find out. But if it pulls people in like that, then surely it's a good thing? Eventually, people will start to come back.