Creative accountancy

Don't you just hate these glory hunters 😀😀😀

MR,childish that Koukash blocked you,pathetic.
He's been ok on Twitter,though,just one post,thanking the crowd

I thought more like 7k but to be fair 6k is still very good, especially considering Leigh's relatively poor turn out. Means about 5k Salford fans which is much improved, and we won which we usually don't do when we get a good turn out. Let's take the positives!

Re the doc, not seen anything sarcastic from him tbh. Depends how you read it I guess

All Marwan has posted is

A good tough win against @leighcenturions side that played very well. The support from our fans was awesome again.

Oh yippee my favourite subject!!!😄

First thing I did when arriving in South stand yesterday was take pics of the other 3 stands as I knew the reported crowd figure would be a load of b0ll0cks and there is not a cat in hells chance there were under 6k there yesterday. If I can work out how to do it then I'll post the pics on here in a bit.

The group I stand with were discussing the crowd at half time and we reckoned (based on actually trying to use some educated guesswork).

South stand - Now I only got my space in south stand just before kick off and it was rammed. I normally stand about 25/30 feet to the left of the big screen (when we're on Sky) and the edges of the stand are almost always empty. Yesterday they were almost full. If that stand holds 2500 and (conservatively) it was 80% full then you have 2000 fans in there.

West stand (the big one!) - it holds 4500. The far end (Leigh end) was pretty empty but the central area was rammed and the section near the south stand was a lot fuller than normal. Again (conservative estimate) even if the stand was 60% full you are looking at around 2700.

North stand (Leigh end) - Holds 2500. I was told on Thu night by a Leigh fan that works at the LSV that they had presales of 980 tickets as of that time. The 2 sides were sparsely populated and unlike the Cas & Wigan games the centre was fairly full but not rammed. So if another 250 Leythers paid on the day then you're looking at 1250 in that stand (surely even with the gaps it was more than 50% full?).

East stand - Holds 2500. Assuming all the freebies were in here? Looked like around 400-500 in that stand so 350 odd quoted freebies fits in with that.

So based on (IMO, very conservatIive) figures quoted above that would put the attendance at around 5950. If my figures are too conservative then even a 10% increase puts us over the 6500 mark.

So I honestly believe that either the official ground capacity (12k) is wrong or attendance figures are being published by Jimmy Carr's accountant!😉

If that's it I apologise, the reaction on Antisocial media made it sound he was back to his old overly sarcastic self.

I think I'm being more than conservative and genuinely don't see how you can physically fit another 6k in that ground unless people are going to sit on each others shoulders/knees but not worth arguing the toss over. It does annoy me tho when Marwan rants about crowd figures that are blatantly incorrect. Especially after Saints crowd being given as 3600 ish (we must have dished out a minimum 1000 freebies for that game if that's the case).

If we're giving out freebies then these need to be stated within the figures otherwise fans will continue to question what we're putting out to the media. I have no problems with free tickets being "selectively" dished out to local schools/sports clubs. If some of them come back as paying customers it grows the fanbase. I didn't pay for a game before the age of 16 due to the Junior Devils scheme but the club has had 23 years of my hard earned since then.