: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:47 pm  

have you all noticed its people with season tickets/lottery getting free tickets so you can 'introduce new fans',not use them yourself you wouldnt be getting them if you werent so you would have too pay.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:55 pm  

beezer wrote:

have you all noticed its people with season tickets/lottery getting free tickets so you can 'introduce new fans',not use them yourself you wouldnt be getting them if you werent so you would have too pay.

i think you are mising the point beezer. the point people are making is that i for one WILL get a season ticket every year no matter what league they are in, but i know the club are trying their hardest but they are taking the p@ss out of their loyal fans, as clearly after the hardcore fans, people in salford just dont care which is a big shame. so why should people keep getting free tickets when they just dont give a toss and come out with smart comments as carnt believe you pay to watch that every weekits a bit annoying but again it was good to see a very busy willows. but as i said before, how many will BUY a ticket and come again

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:48 pm  

willowred wrote:

Or the fact you gave away vast amounts of free tickets so the actual paying attendance was not revealed, but if it was and minus the Wigan support probably another poor effort. We dont need to hand out freebies to get people in the ground we had over a 1000 more last weekend against Celtic than you had at your cup final

Any Hull KR fan who bought a ticket for the Leeds game got half price tickets for Wakey/Celtic/Salford at home. Looks like you are more desperate to pull in decent crowds than you are letting on.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:40 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Any Hull KR fan who bought a ticket for the Leeds game got half price tickets for Wakey/Celtic/Salford at home. Looks like you are more desperate to pull in decent crowds than you are letting on.

In the south stand you idiot, the stand where we put the dullers when we play them. The east stand is passholders only and the main stand is sold out every game. Yes there was this option against the less supported teams like yourselves

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:57 pm  

willowred wrote:

less supported teams like yourselves

At last I think you've finally got it, although if you want to compare the last twenty years of your attendances to ours be my guest.

What I don't think you get remains the fact that if you were to pull in crowds of 20,000 week in week out this year it wouldn't make one jot of difference in hkr's silverware department to ours would it. Go away you obsessed freak.

As for free tickets, if somebodys unlucky enough to be given one, fair play I say as they get to watch the same pile of shit I have to endure every Friday night.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:13 pm  

I can sort of understand seaon ticket holders being annoyed at people around them getting in for free, although personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If watching Salford at the Willows was made free for everyone I would still happily donate y £160 (or whatever it was) each year to the club.

Any season ticket holders who are feeling down about this should perhaps remember that your £160 paid for a new Salford jersey, free entrance to all Academy fixtures, free entry to our first (and probably only?!) Cup game and half price tickets for the Magic Weekend.

Once you subtract all of that (as well as the warm feeling you get by being a ST holder?!) we're not paying all that much for each game we watch at home.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:53 am  

and one final thought on this........

After Friday's game, maybe people attending for the first time on a freebie WILL be keen to attend another RL game as a paying spectator.....

.........but it's almost certain that they'll go to the JJB and not return to The Willows.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:26 am  

The two I brought want to come again the young lad even wants a shirt (Not that he can get one!)

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:04 am  

Jim Jalfrezi wrote:

and one final thought on this........

After Friday's game, maybe people attending for the first time on a freebie WILL be keen to attend another RL game as a paying spectator.....

.........but it's almost certain that they'll go to the JJB and not return to The Willows.

Not necessarily. I brought 3 new people to the game on Friday and they all enjoyed themselves and said they'd come again (although the £17 normal fee would probably prevent them coming often). Interestingly, the fact that we got beat didn't bother any of them and wouldn't put them off coming again; they said they enjoyed the atmosphere as being different to football, enjoyed the mixing of fans, and enjoyed being able to have a drink. All 3 of them have moved to the local are from places at least 80 miles away and don't come from areas where they are used to having a successful local sports team. I'd hazard a guess that "outsiders" are far less put off by defeat than many of the locals round here who have been brought up on a golden era for Man United.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:17 am  

Iain wrote:

who have been brought up on a golden era for Man United.

when i first went to both united and salford, united were getting relegated and salford were champions.
but the football still had far greater support.