His business plan for the new stadium is for 8000 fans. Now don't turn round and say there was 10000 at the Willows today so that makes sense.

Optimistic, based on crowds at the Willows over the last 30 odd years!!

Reality bites once they move to Barton me thinks.......but if they do manage it, then we need to move Heaven & Earth to poach their marketing 'guru'!!!

Unless they re-employ the guy that used to put out the crowd figures. Used to be bumped up by anywhere up to 1000

If they want to increase their cowds they need to play 100% better than they did today. They were rubbish. We would have beaten them.

8,000??

Bit speculative that isn't it? , it might get a bit expensive building a new one for every other week

to be fair they got was it 7000 against Swinton on a Friday night, which could have been described as a nothing game not so many years ago.
Its a big opportunity for them, and the crowd today proves they can do it. And before anyone gets all negative we didn't get anywhere near that gate for our last game of season. In fact I think the visit of first ever game against a Russian club brought in more sadly than the last ever game at HP.

As above - I think Salford's crowd today (fair play to them by the way) just shows what a missed opportunity we had when we said farewell to Hilton Park.

Of course, Salford knew for a while when their last home game would be, because they were never going to get in the play-offs. Our last game was a play-off game so couldn't really be predicted.

However, we still messed up our opportunity.

I reckon we are the leaders in the sport for doing that and probably have been throughout our history.

Good on em for having a go I say

Most of the fans there interviewed by Radio Manc, were fans of other clubs, so they won't be there unless there own team is playing at the stadium

When Wire were at Wilderspool who would have predicted that they would be getting regular 12k crowds? I certainly wouldn't. I can see Salford getting big crowds in a nice stadium in a nicer location with a decent team. Maintaining it year on year is the trickier bit.

Agreed, Warrington used to average around 6k. Then they got a stadium and a decent coach.

Exactly like Salford.

Warrington with loads of decent junior clubs producing players in a town dominated by RL with no soccer club

Salford where nobody plays the sport, don't produce juniors and have Man U on the doorstep

No comparison - but wish them well in the move.