Where were the empty seats you refer to? The seating sold out.



The standing areas with gaps were in the East stand, this would usually be an away end but as Salford only brought 200 fans it was allocated as extra standing for Saints. If the game was at the Halliwell Jones it would have been full entirely with Saints fans.

Saints season ticket holders would almost fill warringtons stadium.

So new ground record sales of tickets blah blah and still no atmosphere

We played Salford mate, without lack of respect to Salford but they only got 5000 at there new stadium. They brought about 300 fans.





Jus wait until the likes of leeds, Widnes and hull arrive, the will be certainly a great atmosphere then.

I was going to mention this in my original post. It did feel like an event, but then it was an event. This wasn't just a home game against Salford, it was the first competitive game at our new home. I am already looking forward to the Cats game, and I hope that also has a similar feel.



BTW - we were talking about you and your Dad last night. I'll PM you about trying to meet up

I was hoping I would see replies similar to this. It does look like Saints have taken some of the feedback from fans from the Widnes game onboard, made some adjustments, and as a result, have given people a better matchday experience.



I hope others feel the same, but I am really proud of our new home. It's going to amazing once the weather warms up a bit!

Honestly, why are you even taking him up??





The ground is superb, and any of the remaining little issues will no doubt be rectified as the season progresses.

Feeding trolls can be entertaining when you're bored.

Slightly off topic but Ben Fogle tweeted about being at the game last night and said it was a great atmosphere. I don't particularly have any feeling either way on him but it's great advertisement from a well known national figure.

There were empty seats actually, but I have a funny feeling they belonged to the posh folks and VIP's, who may have stayed inside watching rather than coming out in the cold with the rest of us.



The seats are sold but we can't force people to sit in them.





One things about the seats, I did not have to squash my knees for 80 minutes. Hurrah a stadium built for tall folks.

Yeah that is a very good point, at 6 foot 2 I very often find myself with sore knees at half time, however the leg room is plentiful and I could even move my legs!



Also wasn't the ceremony fantastic before the match, I choked up at one point at the sheer magnitude of the whole thing. Full credit to whoever thought that up because it was brilliant.

Might be because you turned up on the wrong day mate, you don,t play until tomorrow.