I think the reality was posted by [delIain[/del - correction by Scoot, elsewhere - the safety certificate is only for 9,000 therefore it makes complete economic sense just to run three stands for now.

Sunday rugby for me every time, we need to generate interest, & Friday night only preaches to the converted especially in the winter months!
I believe playing Sunday would put at least another 1000 on the gate, made up of extra away fans as well as potential home supporters.
I have attend every home & away game this season & the club are starting to get it right on the pitch by playing rugby you want to watch, the back-room staff (board) now need to get there backside in gear & review how they can generate some interest in the club.

If the fans were asked in the first place about the ground do you think the new shed behind the sticks was a yes think not, close that stand and put reds fans in the east stand ie Warrington.

Right - two thread covering pretty much the same ground so I'm merging them.

From a fan of a club who is about to go on the new ground adventure, the question is a simple one: which ground produce, or did produce, the best and most fervent home team atmosphere?

Answers:
Knowsley Road
Headingley
New Craven Park
Warrington

In terms of atmosphere against numbers, you could also add The Willows, and if you go back far enough, you could also add The Boulevard.

What do or did they all have in common? The home team "kop" standing along the side.

Continuing performing how you are and the crowds will go up.

I do agree though that changing to Sunday will be a big boost. You will get a few walk ups, due to people been bored on a Sunday, Friday night you don't get this as people will be shattered from a weeks work and won't want to go watch a game of rugby on a Friday night.

why not give free tickets to the army t a cadets in east manchester

I've stated in the past that I was concerned that senior people at the club seemed to be putting excessive faith in the "build it and they will come" philosophy and were assuming we'd be like Warrington and Hull despite the obvious and huge differences in the circumstances of our moves.

I hoped that we wouldn't be over relying on optimism to get the increased crowds, but I'm concerned that it does look like the case. Yes, we've recorded fairly decent increases on like for like fixtures from last year, but in both cases the away support has doubled on last year.

The grand talk ahead of the move was the raising of us from a locality based club to one drawing support from the wider conurbation, but the marketing push so far has appeared to be leaflet drops in the area near the stadium, an ad in the Advertiser (both happening very close to the game) and Facebook.

The Friday night/Sunday afternoon debate is a tough one. I know people who can't get to many home games due to the Friday nights, but also know people who wouldn't be able to go to every game if they were on Sundays. Away support would almost definitely go up on Sundays, but then the corporate side would suffer; and it's the corporate side why we have Friday nights as it is. We must make more money off the x number of corporates, rather than the 4000 regular fans.

Saints crowd dropped 2500 from our game there, and we only took 200 fans, so even a winning team is struggling to maintain its support on a Friday.

that 'trish' woman a few years ago, had the crowds coming on the angel(?) scheme.
bring her back.

i think she fell out with another director who is still at the club so she wouldn't come back, but there is no reason as to why we can't use similar schemes just needs a personality to put some effort into it.

for games up to the end of March it should be Sunday afternoon
ok friday evenings when summer comes

Can somebody explain to me why Friday nights are better for corporate than a Sunday afternoon,i just don`t get it.

Sunday games would attract much bigger crowds,friday nights are great cos i can have a good drink without worrying about work the next day!

Families simply cannot attend matches 8 o clock friday night! My little girl loves goin to see saford yet she is in bed every night at 7 o clock.My missus loves to come see salford,but she cant either she is at home with kids??? Same scenario for a LOT of people surely???