TheButcher wrote:Friday Nights, imo, was a bad idea from the start. Less away fans (Especially Yorkshire based) due to traffic/work problems. People not wanting to wonder around Weaste after dark on a Friday. Families that need to have kids in bed. Etc etc.
A large part of the decision to move to Friday night matches was to accommodate corporate sponsorship. With the majority of Lancashire-based Super League clubs playing their home fixtures on a Friday night too, it also seems to be a major consideration elsewhere.
Seemingly, the income and kudos from corporates outweighs that of paying supporters from Yorkshire and further afield.
TheButcher wrote:Would be interesting if anyone did a comparison between our Friday night Attendances and the last time we played Superleague Sunday afternoons.
It wouldn't be a fair comparison because for much of the time where we've played on Fridays, Salford have had a team worth going to see — and that's what it comes down to: if a match is a spectacle people
want to see, people
will attend.
I remember someone saying to me that football supporters don't complain when they have to go to areas similar to Weaste — Goodison Park for example — because they want to be there, nay
have to be there. Salford's challenge to produce a team, matchday experience, whatever, to make people want to attend.
Karlos13 wrote:Should be £15 on the gate, £10 in advance. Get people buying in advance then they are committed to turning up.
And abolish all, or at least the vast majority of the freebies. I'd go for that; I suppose we all would with us being paying speccys. The worry for the club is whether the only people taking up the discounted offer are those who already pay £15/£17 every week.
