On the ' when to play ' issue, can I throw Saturday tea time into the mix, that would be my preffered option

And then we've got "it clashes with X Factor", "my night at the pub", "the Super League game is on" in the mix. Can't win whichever way. Let's see how the Friday night's go (though worth mentioning it's a while until one of those as well!).

The lack of incentives to buy season tickets leaves us at the mercy of a million excuses/reasons why people can't/ won't buy match day tickets. I think on occasions we will go close to 1k sadly!

Don't see why that would be the case Ste when in reality we're only a couple of hundred season tickets down on last year.

6.15pm Saturday night.
Up against the weakest TV SL fixture and no live football match (if indeed they still show it live on Saturdays - not too up on what SKY show), allows away support to get here , allows young familys to come , allows people to do things and still get back for the game, allows those who don't live within 2 miles to get there easily, allows people to watch the football then watch the RL, allows a majority of people to get home from work / be off work then go to the game, allows the players to play the game in decent temperatures in summer, can be used as a 'day out' by putting other events on at /near the ground on the day (as per Australian RL fixtures).

Of course there will be people who prefer other dates and I'm sure everyone has a favourite kick off day / time but the above does seem to tick a lot of boxes in terms of what the club needs.

Away support is a ' either or ' situation , you either ignore them completely ( the easy lazy option ) , OR you embrace them , you make it as easy and as attractive as possible for them to attend no matter what day you play , having seen your posts on the Fax site today Matt, you are aware that they put the Fev fans in their own part of the Shay, yes there were other reasonsfor it ( which nobody needs to expand upon ) but it did apparently result in an improved atmosphere at the match

Ultimatly you have to decide what you are trying to achieve, and what is the best way to achieve it, bearing in mind there is no magic wand that will solve our problems, just vision, hard work and taking the odd risk or two

Sometimes you can end up being scared of doing anything in case you make your current situation slightly worse, almost ' frozen' with fear, you have to have the courage to overcome your fear, you take your leap of faith

Don't disagree with that, but away support in this league is always a pretty constant figure and doesn't seem to increase much even for play-off games so I'd rather we concentrated on whatever measures we can to attract home fans first of all.

TBH I don't think we've done too bad for away support thus far when you consider what we saw / have seen in past seasons, a couple of coaches from Barrow and 1 from Hunslet (plus fans in Cars / on public transport) is not too bad for lower league RL in the current set up.

No more or less than both clubs have always brought to be honest Jenky - 200ish from Barrow, maybe 100-150 (if we're being generous) from Hunslet. Bar Halifax, Fev and I suppose Swinton, it's not going to get any higher.

Interesting thing though with away fans, today we were outsung until the little fracas on the pitch , the more that come, generally the better the atmosphere, and if ' Bob ' had come today, would he have come back again?

Because ultimatley, its ' him ' we need to attract, not us

according to our Andy the Hunslet support seemed down on last weeks?

I disagree with your views mate, Friday nights are having a big impact on Salfords attendances, families just won't go on a Friday night after a tiring day at work and with games kicking off at 8:00 and most people not finishing work until 5:00/6:00 it's near enough impossible for people with kids to make the game, plus with an 9:35 finish its going to be late getting in. Id never make any Salford games if it wasn't for my boss letting me work an extra hour during the week so I can leave early on Friday, just shows against castleford we sold 8000 tickets I know 2000+ didn't show up due to the freak blizzard before the game but we did sell 8000 tickets, the next game at home on a Friday night only 5000+ tickets were sold. Friday nights are family supporters killers! Stick to Sunday's.

Cheaper prices last week and more chance of winning?

Well I brought 2 Bobs today but I do have an issue with the the reserved seating .I do have a reserved seat due to friends I go with but when I get someone to come along it means either they sit on their own or I don't sit with friends and its not only me who has said this, and I have emailed TB and tweeted the Leigh Centurions about it ,wish they would scrap reserved seating altogether .