Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:17 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

2327

Over 2,000 of them must have been situated in the stand where the main camera was hosted, because there was hardly anyone in the three visible stands on TV.

coco the fullback wrote:

it was a bit windy though

Arctic wind no doubt too!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:37 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

Making ill-informed and unjustified judgements of how large a crowd was does not make your argument any more credible.

I guessed at 2,000

Ok

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:46 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Over 2,000 of them must have been situated in the stand where the main camera was hosted, because there was hardly anyone in the three visible stands on TV.

Arctic wind no doubt too!

There were hundreds in the stand opposite the camera and hundreds in the Salford terrace to the right, plus 1,000 in the big stand behind the cameras. Not a good crowd, but still.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:58 pm  

Guessed the Salford crowd at around 2200 from attending the game, so wasn't far out. William tries this 'less than 1000' act every time Salford are on tv. Not sure why. Bit sad really.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:00 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

Making ill-informed and unjustified judgements of how large a crowd was does not make your argument any more credible. I guessed at 2,000, as would anyone who is not a troll trying to paint a one-sided negative picture of everything in our game.

Spot on!

I've spent 10 years defending the indefensible crowds at London and have always said, what they announce as the official crowd should always be taken as such. There is no benefit to a club to fudge gates upwards, as they will be required to pay tax on them.

That said, Salfords crowds are a bit of a worry now...London will fold or drop out of the comp soon, but the Good Dr in Salford has his work cut out for him......a 3k base to build on will take some "'wedge" spent on marketing to get to the 10,000 needed...

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:19 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Spot on!

I've spent 10 years defending the indefensible crowds at London and have always said, what they announce as the official crowd should always be taken as such. There is no benefit to a club to fudge gates upwards, as they will be required to pay tax on them.

That said, Salfords crowds are a bit of a worry now...London will fold or drop out of the comp soon, but the Good Dr in Salford has his work cut out for him......a 3k base to build on will take some "'wedge" spent on marketing to get to the 10,000 needed...

The setback with season tickets really killed off their crowds this year, since their fan base ain't that huge to begin with. Their marketing team has a big job for next year.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:21 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

There were hundreds in the stand opposite the camera and hundreds in the Salford terrace to the right, plus 1,000 in the big stand behind the cameras. Not a good crowd, but still.

Perhaps they sold 2,327 tickets? It's not unknown for clubs to count those who still don't turn up despite having a ticket.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:00 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Perhaps they sold 2,327 tickets? It's not unknown for clubs to count those who still don't turn up despite having a ticket.

You are the only one questioning the validity of the crowd, why not accept you are wrong? Maybe take an eyesight test?

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:35 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

You are the only one questioning the validity of the crowd, why not accept you are wrong? Maybe take an eyesight test?

I am questioning the validity of the attendance on the basis that the three stands I could actually see on TV contained no more than a few hundred spectators. I'm also questioning the validity of the attendance on the basis of comments made by others earlier in this thread when some questioned the accuracy of Salford's announced attendances last season, claiming they were exaggerated.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:33 am  

The other problem for Salford is that the fans have been promised a bright future with challenging for trophies.......so why turn up in 2013?

Its clear the team will struggle, so why not effectively 'take a year' off and save yourself some cash for these promised 'glories' just around the corner?

What remains to be seen is how much will the crowds improve when the good Doctor starts to make some serious signings, will they reflect the quality of player brought in?