king of the shed wrote::lol: Compared to 90% of RL teams in the 70's they were massive. It's all relative to the era the games were played, during Salford's best era the 30's (which were ended by Hitler! ) I would guarantee that average attendances would eclipse those many of today's top teams and I'd suspect that's the case for many other clubs.

In fact I've just found an old mag (not that sort ) from 1987 and it has all the average attendances from the previous year listed.

1 Wigan - 12,732
2 St Helens - 7341
3 Warrington - 4172
4 Castleford - 4758
5 Halifax - 4891
6 Hull Kingston Rovers - 4651
7 Bradford Northern - 4312
8 Widnes - 3840
9 Salford - 2826
10 Leigh - 4232
11 Hull - 5538
12 Leeds - 6393
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13 Oldham - 3915
14 Featherstone Rovers - 2606
15 Barrow - 2664
16 Wakefield Trinity - 2637

And a few others of note
Fulham - 684
Huddersfield Barracudas - 524

Oh and just to add Salford were at the 70's height in the mid 70's not the early 70's cockles.

vastman wrote:Trinity were in Div 2 in 1987- 88, I think?

Alice's Phallus wrote:
But the biggest improvement has obviously been in the London club, formerly Fulham, now Harlequins RL, which has seen its average attendance more than quadruple since 1986.

belgianxiii wrote:
Let's remember that Salford is expansion territory.

Glenn Morangie wrote:I thought franchises were for three years not three weeks.

Alice's Phallus wrote:This post is nothing but crude and pointless personal insults against GanEden, who raises legitimate points.

Can you not address the issues that he and others have raised?

Alice's Phallus wrote:Salford have failed to impress so far.

They have beaten Celtic at home and then got thumped by the lowly Wakefield. (Take the Aussies Demetriou, Drew, and Blanch, and the Scottish heritage Danny Brough out of the side and Wakefield is not a SL standard team).

Their first home ground attendance of 4,026 was abysmal. It was exceeded by the home game crowd of Celtic Crusaders and Harlequins this weekend.

Salford have some very good players but a poor coach and administration. The coach, who is personally a lovely man and a good TV commentator for sure, is not respected in Australia as a coach. The administration of Steve Simms has a lot of question marks around it. If the new stadium does not get under construction by early 2011, and their crowds do not increase to over 6,000, then I would expect that the RFL has every right to dump them.