What on earth has happenned to the attendances at Salford in 2013 ?

You seem to have lost around 3000 regular supporters !

From an neutral supporter's viewpoint - a new stadium, a new owner, a world class coach, and a bright future should all point towards big crowds !!!!!

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned before to be honest.

I know there's been a lot of excuses made by us Salford fans: the season tickets not coming on sale until the season had started, the off field problems this season, Stadium location, access to the stadium, years of cr@p etc... But IMO there is no excuse whatsoever for the crowds this season, the Salford public really need to take a look at themselves and decide whether they want a club to support or not.



I've been quite frankly embarrassed this season.

Salford’s are shocking at the moment. But attendances are down throughout the league this year. Only Widnes has seen significant growth so far and the majority of clubs’ figures are lower on average compared to last year. In general the weather has been poor, even for British standards, so it may be a significant factor. Having said that, crowds are usually larger earlier in the season.



It also has to be said that Football League attendances are in decline too. So there could be a wider social affect, or maybe the deep economic malaise is truly biting now.

Non league football attendances are also down about 20%. It's happening everywhere to be honest.

We're down by nearly 50% though in what is meant to be an exciting new era for the club. Times are hard I understand that, but to drop off how we have this year is shocking



There needs to be a massive push on season tickets next year, we need to go all out.

you've got it wrong

our attendance has improved from 13 to 14

(see match discussion)

I really can't put my finger on the poor attendances at the new ground. I personally think the attendances at the Willows could have been better given our potential catchment area.



I think that one reason could be down to the fact that we have two very high-profile football clubs in the area, and local people are spending their money on tickets to the game and/or going to the pub to watch them instead of giving Rugby League a chance.



The Marketing dept at SR really need to get their fingers out in preperation for next season. The price of a match day ticket needs to be lowered for starters...

We need to start somewhere and the fans we had are staying away, we have lost about 2,000 in the off season.



I've been watching Salford for quite some time and I don't feel the same about the club/team at present.



The new board have a lot of repairing to do.



The stadium isn't welcoming, the stewards are on a hiding to nothing, the seats not standing on the side was a huge mistake.



It feels as if any thing that could be done to annoy fans was done.



We need to find some way of making it feel like our home, get the old fans to return before we can even think about new people becoming loyal fans.

To be fair after the will they won't they pre season, the understandably late release of season tickets and pretty much inevitable on field batterings did we expect 10,000 to be flocking to watch the club this year?

Think the only chance we have of getting any decent improvement to numbers this year is a cup run (highly unlikely with Warrington next up) or if Noble can somehow pull a miracle out of the bag and we have a tilt at 8th.



The Doc needs all his business acumen and some serious marketing before the season has ended to promote 2014 season tickets, special early bird offers and incentives.



A real big marquee signing to help the club promote things next year would also be a help though I hope we don't throw too much to make it Morley and him get crocked.

It would be interesting to know the difference in the numbers of PAYING spectators.

I think it'll show there has been a drop off but last years numbers were swelled by all the free tickets,so the takings may not be down by the same amount.

In order to go forward we need to work out how many people are prepared to pay to see the games

Overpriced admission + late season ticket sales = low crowds.