There were a lot more Pie fans than at ours but Salford have not put an official number out I thought about 3500. The north stand at smelly cold shed dome was nearly 3/4s full. The few that came along last night made enough noise anyway. Well done Pie Eaters.

To be fair, the pies have had two games in a week too, as well as it being an U20s team.

i am not going to reoterate my dislike of friday games, the test will come during in the season when we play teams from our league, i will go no matter the day or time, just prefer sunday's. the point that irks me is the fact that it was stated majority of games to be on a sunday, then fixtures come out and most on a friday, time will tell i guess.

ps more importantly great display from our boys, have to say was disapointed in wigan u20 team

im guessin the pies brought more last time because it was their first visit to lsv and they wanted to see what it was like?

They've visited three times now, in 2009, 2010 and 2012. 2009 they brought a good couple of thousand and filled the South Stand and a section of the East. 2010 they brought 1,200 or so IIRC but that was because many were under the impression it was to be a full team for Wigan, and then maybe 300 or so last night.

it was a friendly against an U20's side, nearly 500 more than the play-off semi v Sheffield last season, not a bad effort 2279.
Not many Wigan fans, and some wouldn't sit down - how naughty !

I was happy with the Leigh turn out.
Dissapointed with the wigan turn out but there are obvious reasons for that.

Thought crowd was bigger, and Fridays in freezing cold and wet weather are not attractive - summer nights are better.

I think the club are right to try different things to maximise the gate, we shouldn't be complaining that they are trying everything they can to keep team going we should support them, we complained often enough they were doing nothing.
I expect that even though I'm a season ticket holder, something will occur on one of those Fridays that may mean I can't go, but the club can't build its fixtures around what suits me, it has to build them around what will maximise the crowd, and I believe thats what its done. You will get some people saying we'll go to the Rugby before going out around Leigh, something they can't do with the Sunday fixture in most cases because Monday morning means work, Saturday morning may not in a lot of cases.
The more people that see we have a good team, an entertaining team and most importantly a team that can win trophies, the more we will get through the turnstiles, and if that means playing Friday nights, so be it.
I imagine more than one or two of the pubs were in town were grateful for the Friday fixture.

Not disagreeing with any of the above (even though the switch of K.O days meant I'll miss all Friday games) but I thought the official explanation for the Friday games was due to pitch work at the LSV (or similar) rather than trying out a different night to trial gates.
I think it was Alan who posted at the time (after asking TB why we had moved some of our KO days) that the club had little time to sort something better out.

Have to say though if we'd got 2,270 on a Sunday afternoon (such as today with zero to do/clash with ) v Wigan I would have been a little dissapointed after the promising showings thus far in pre season.
Little point bothering though as its set in stone now so lets see how it runs and hope it reaps some rewards for the club.
Lets not forgot though its 2,270 more than some of us was expecting such was the concerns in the off season of our clubs very existance in 2012 so its still a positive

Don't get me wrong not knocking it but in terms of local interest I think one has more spice than the other.
If you'd asked me would I prefer to miss a game v Halifax's full team or a game v a Wigan U20 / fringe team I'd miss the Fax one every time

I think the fact that we beat Wigan - even though it was the reserves - and the way we have gone in the other two matches, it will have wetted a few peoples appetites for a view of a bit more and could enticed a few stay aways back.