Simple.......his team are the experts and they have calculated that it will cost more in advertising than will be created in additional profits. That is why a promotion mogul, or indeed any businessman will accept it.

Can't get up for a mid week game so it'll be sky and the pub for me. 3 hours each way.

If things were so simple he wouldn't have invested in the club in the first place!

Might just scrape 10,000, which won't be too bad for what is, basically, a pre-season friendly.

Fair enough, but that goes for any week night, not just this Thursday game.

Nothing bizarre about it Sad-Act. I have a 7 year old daughter who won't be attending because she has school Friday morning. We live in East Manchester so won't get home until after 10.30pm, traffic depending.

My lad has a paper round and struggles to stay up later than between 8:30 and 9. We went to the United-Sunderland game a couple of weeks ago and he was really struggling. I felt really sorry for him having to be up at 6:30 the next day and then to school afterwards.

Luckily, he finishes school on Thursday, so he can go back to bed after his paper round.

Monday and Thursday game are ridiculous and are done without one thought of the fans who actually go to the games. Sky have done exactly the same with football over the years.

RL is much more of a family game than football, so the ratio of children to adults is much higher at RL games. I certainly wouldn't take my two six year olds to a game mid-week which meant they wouldn't get to bed fefore 10:30 at the earliest (it'd take them a few days to get over it).

The current weather must have an impact too for anyone who is thinking of paying at the turnstile. My guess would be around 10,000.

If the wind/gales kick in as predicted there might not be a stadium to stand/sit in. Its going to be mucky weather 8700

there is a remarkable lack of interest in this game.....

what, even though there's promotion and relegation been brought back?

just out of interest has anyone on here had one of the phone calls from the club this week?

interesting you should ask that question FMC.

Although many times I have booked tickets from the club I haven't ever received a promotional call.

But on only one occasion I booked seats at the pie dome and on a few times have had promotional calls regarding tickets and deals.

Nipped in to buy my Leeds ticket today and the closest I got to seeing any marketing for the game was an Arriva bus with "the Saints are coming!" plastered all over it!

I registered with Salford to claim a free ticket a couple of years back. I'm always getting emails, texts and letters off them in regards to upcoming games.