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Drive past it every day and it's flying up. With Salford's gates suffering at the Willows, what do we think are realistic expectations for them in 2012+? Can they attract similar numbers to ourselves, or will they be stuck around the 6k mark? I'm really hoping it really increases the take up in the area. I work in a large office located in the Eccles/Trafford/Salford bordering areas, and there is no one that I know of within our 400 staff building who is a Salford fan. Couple of Saints and a few Wigan and Wire, but no Salford. Very suprised when I joined, and a tad dissapointed.

Living in the shadow of Old Trafford, can't see them ever being able to attract big numbers in a city were football is king.

I saw someone in The Trafford Centre last week, on my dinner hour, and he had a T-shirt on, which had on it,

Salford RLFC is my religion. The Willows is my church.

I automatically thought 'yeah, it's old, run down and no-one visits it anymore'.

Back on track, good for them their stadium's flying up. I remember going over Barton Bridge a few months back, thinking 'this is never even going to get started', as the area had been levelled for months, but metalwork wasn't anywhere to be seen.

Hopefully (for them) they'll get the same fillip in attendances as we got, when we moved grounds. A half decent side might help, too.

Is it going to be duel use ?

Salford CR RLFC plus a team that can get a decent crowd like FC United of Manchester?

FC united are looking to build a new ground near Newton Heath.

It would be good to get MUFC resevers in as they play at alty at the moment.

But it seems that Sale will move in.

I think they should change their name to 'Manchester Red Devils' to get some new fans in.

The bait is set, lets see what you catch with that MD,

Could end up being one of the best grounds in the Championship.

Still no bites, well to be fair, we are fishing in a stagnent pond.

more like fishing in a puddle

Litigationtastic.

Some very valid points on this thread to be fair...

it is flying up and all on schedule and set to be completed by december of this year... this is only phase one of the building process, with stages 2 and 3 to follow...

i know the club are working extremely hard to push current gates up and eventually the gates at Barton

i hope we get similar success's to you where the gate increases are concerned from your switch to the HJ from Wilderspool, the same that happened at Hull too

i suppose we will just have to wait for the near future to (hopefully) see the clubs hard work in trying to get the attendences up to their maximum, if we can tap into just 0.01% of the population of the GM region we would be at maximum capacity every game...

i'm not saying that is going to happen, but for the club to set an initial target of maybe 7-8k i think that both the club and fans would see it as a success (aslong as we can keep the said fans coming in)

I reckon an increase to around 7k the first year. I think you have to take into account how many fans don't like going to the willows. I think that adds a few hundred on the away gate straight away.

definately, and take into account the fans that might want to make their first trip to the ground for the sake of seeing what its like etc...