but thats the problem with the internet..if you are going to use it effectively, you have to keep it current, and "current" is measured in hours, if not minutes. This is especially true when the weather can turn nasty all of a sudden. I can understand why it may not be possible to have someone on hand capable of updating the website, which is where Twitter comes in...anybody can do it..

Now I am 36 and considered quite past it by those in their teens and early twenties. They are far more geared in to instant communication/updates through texting, mobiles, social networking sites. and if you want to crack that market you have to connect in that way...the good news is that most of it can be done at very little cost...

Nah, we got to the ground and went straight in, then got a coffee inside. Usually take the mother to games (it's great when the best treat you can give your mum is to take her to the rugby) and she was cold so didn't fancy messing around.

You owd bugg@r how the hell do you manage to work the internet so well

Telephones are a wonderous machine are they not? the ticket office was manned from 11:30am.

My computer must be slow - the message I'm reading was way back on 23/12/10, stating that the game would be on, providing there wasn't heavy snow. The people who contacted me, were from a fair distance away and they DID have snow. I had put my head above the parapet, by 'advertising' the game, and then couldn't give a definite answer, when asked if it was definitely on. Lesson well learnt - I'll leave the publicising of games to the experts in future!

As you probably know, I don't go in for slagging off the club - I'm merely stating my experience of ringing them, (before 11:30 as my contacts needed to set off by then) and two officials, who weren't answering their phones.

I hope others weren't put off from attending, by not knowing whether the game would be on or not.

Completely agree, with there being snow elsewhere then I fear those travelling from further afield might have assumed the game was at risk and not bothered making the trip just in case - regular updates are vital, especially as any sort of casual fan would check online before ringing the ticket office etc.

Course they would Matt.

Forget this media tripe. Can anyone please tell me how many first team players Salford had out today as they are claiming that was their reserves.

Well despite living in a very unusual part of Salford I know little about their team but I would say 8 or 9.

On a more serious note I think confirmation that todays game was definately on should have been on the official site first thing this morning.

Ratchford
Matty Smith
Boyle
Sidlow
Godwin
Nero

To be honest, no-one really knows much about team for the forthcoming season yet as there as so many new faces.
However, the 'reserves' comments are a slight exaggeration?! We were only really missing our foreign imports (injuries aside).

That said, I'm won't worry about the 2011 SL season because of today's performance.
(despite a Leyther posting on our board about how many Wigan would put on us this year, based on today's showing?!)

Gibson
Ratchford
Wild
Broughton
Neal
Jewitt

Did both Ratchford's play today? Didn't notice the other one??