Come on Shirl I know your involved with the club and have strong connections, but lets not make excuses for what is a very poor effort by the club. Why say they'd get back then not? Its p!ss poor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but are the stadiums of Saints and Cas/Wakey their own ventures? I don't think they are yet they all still managed to make a statement on them.

Thanks for the replies folks.
Don't really know what to think.
One thing for sure is that a lack of reply seems like a hell of a way to alienate us still further from the big clubs, traditional clubs and other hotbed clubs.
Jeez it's hard enough being stuck in this football mad city of ours as it is.
Although as BBM points out, it's not actually our development.
Nonetheless, a little more enthusiasm on the PR front wouldn't go amiss.

Well the general lack of any kind of promotion from the club regaurding the progress of the work is dissapointing, I did think they might have approached Barton Flyer to use some of the shots he took from the old Sopwith Camel but obviously didnt.
Think for the Boots and All program we could have got someone from both the council and Peel to assist, would have been marvelous PR for all three entitiies to be seen to even in these times or great hardship to be pooling resources and working towards providing a lasting legacy for the community of Salford and beyond.

Does seem rather unprofessional not not even get back to say they couldn't comment as it isnt strictly our stadium.

Can't believe that anybody would defend the club on this. Fact is... when the chairman is unavailable... nobody knows what to do.

There would have been panic... "oh no... Sky want to know something about the stadium... whatever are we going to do ? The Chairman isn't here"

Perhaps we ask the PR department....

"Stadium ? We are building a stadium ? Serious ? Nobody told us."

Shambles.

Funny,

Harsh,

But sadly fair.

laughing stock of the 1 st degree, just watched boots n all and they dont even give us a good review of our game it was all about Bradford and how poor they played......the only positive comment was at the beginning when eddie says jodie' try was try of the season, dont think it will some how reckon tomkins will get that one as well. And dont they have phones in america could know one have rung the chairman and what does tarry do these days.......

I watched it last night and it really angered me. Surely sombody could have picked the phone up and said 'The chairmans unavailable so could we possibly change it to in a few weeks'. That doesnt look as bad as not replying. Yes sky have never give us a good review or rarely show us but we should still be proffesional about it. Its a shame aswel as I drove past on Sunday and things are shaping up nicely, dont think I've ever seen that many tractors in one place in my life

drove pass it last night over the bridge it is really coming on well, got a photo but dont know how to put it on here sorry.. i know why we as fans send are pictures to bootsnall..

disgraceful !our club is a joke at times when it comes to things like this!no excuses!

I think that looks worse in a way, its like saying "The chairman is away and none of the other club officials/directors have a clue whats going on"

'kin farce

bring back that geordie "m.i.l.f" i say!!she seemed to have a lot better clue than some of the numptys we have trying to run things these days!!

milf ? You do know what that stands for right ? Would you ? Really ?

My God in my darkest dreams I wouldn't borrow yours and go there, though do agree we seemed to be more media friendly when she was with the club.

I agree it's a joak.

Take a chill pill all of you!!!!!!!



At least we WILL have a stadium to play in, in 2012, more than any PR at this point will do for Wakey & Cas. Doesnt matter how many statements are made or from who, we have all seen the stadium is on its way for us.

I would be more concerned if we were still at Wakey & Cas's positions, but, WE ARE NOT!!!!

Red tinted glasses or what Shirley? Yeah its great that the stadium is up and running, but you must surely accept this is poor by the club? Yeah give praise where praise is due we are getting a stadium, but the club MUST be criticized for this! I couldn't give a flying f*ck about Cas and Wakey so don't bring them into this its about us and our inept public relations skills not about Cas or wakey (Who still managed to speak to the press btw).

Shirl please for one moment take an outside look at things, p*ss P*ss poor PR by all concerned at Salford City Reds

The club made a boo-boo? I thought I heard the dull trouser-pings of the Turkey masses as I watched Boots n' All.
I was so enraged at not hearing the same tired lines about our stadium that I raised an almighty tut! Then got on with my life, but I'm dull like that...


Of course they MUST. What do you propose?
A letter to the directors, drawing their attention to their staff's oversight?
Perhaps a name-and-shame policy so we know exactly who swear at during home matches?
Or shall we just have a big old bitch about it on here? We can use capitals to show HOW MUCH IT MATTERS!

Not saying I agree or disagree. Life on this fence ambivalence is a place I'm currently happy to be. But all the same,

Very funny!

People still [iactually[/i watch Boots 'N All??

Boots-n-All plays to a dedicated audience of folk who are already RL fans.

The fact of our stadium being publicised or otherwise on such a show will make not one jot of difference to anything or anyone.

What will need to happen, and has the capability of making a difference is a concerted, concentrated marketing campaign to coincide with the stadium opening to attract new spectators. If the Club/Peel/Council don't do that at the right moment, then that is the time to criticise - the fact that we didn't have a spokesman on preaching to the already converted is of no consequence at all.

Right, I get it now. Must have been me ignoring the importance sky has on pro sport these days!

Mate IMO we have very few fans now, and the club must be trying to get the whole city and beyond interested in Salford RLFC. I cannot get how people can defend the club on missing out on a massive press release, please explain and set my mind at ease, are we happy with our PR?

Yes I have sent an e-mail to the club for an explanation. To disregard and tell the the biggest broadcaster of sport that we'd get back to them, and then not even bother to reply knocks me sick!!!

It appears that all the parties involved in Salford's new stadium either can't or are not willing to coalesce when it comes to public relations, doesn't it? It's frustrating and disappointing, but it isn't a new thing.

Ever since the project left the club's hands, updates from the Salford City Council-Peel collusion have been few and far between. In fact, much of it we've had to unearth ourselves from the bowels of the Council's website. This begs the question: if the joint venture cabal are unable or unwilling to speak about the new stadium, why not direct Sky Sports and any other media outlet to the information that is already in the public domain and therefore not sensitive? (i.e. the architect's drawings and the work that's currently taking place on the ground.)

You could argue that the [iBoots 'n' All[/i producers were lazy for not digging out this readily available information. A self-respecting journalist would portray this story equally on all sides, which would involve some research. Not much research either. Merely a couple of minutes on Salford City Council's website and a drive past the new stadium site with a camera. By the looks of it (I confess, I didn't watch the programme) [iBoots 'n' All[/i didn't portray this and therefore gave a biased view. Mind you, this is a News Corp. influenced company we're talking about.



I think it matters to some of our club's supporters, the supporters of other clubs and onlookers, particularly RL journos and writers. Since the collapse of Red City Developments I think there is a distrust of what has been said about the new stadium. I've read comments by said journos in newspapers and blogs, and threads on forums by opposing fans that convey the feeling that our club leading people on or 'swinging the lead'.

However, should we be bothered about these people? They are certainly down the list of people to influence; the RFL are higher up and you'd sincerely hope they are well up to speed with the project's ongoing developments.

I am as disappointed as anyone here about the PR effort post-RCD's demise; the joint venture should have set up an outlet rather than being so guarded as they have been thus far. But it's a bit late to do something about that now, particularly if in 10-12 weeks time the build begins and convinces everyone that the project is truly up and running.

Think the Boots and All thing is a PR disaster, much as I loathe SKY they are what in effect keeps RL alive in this country and we have not had the foresight to even attempt to provide them with some even rudimentory information. As Chico says the information is available openly on the councils website so why could'nt the club have used this and spent a little time and effort cobbling it together into a media friendly package (I doubt SKY called in the afternoon and said we need a 100 page report and detailed plans by 5 tonight for the show).

Sorry I hate to disagree with Shirl but this does show an endemic lack of professionalism on behalf of the club, some are privvy to the amounts the club spend on advertising and why this isnt a great deal more and yet here was a perfect vehicle for some free publicity and yet we missed it and gained nothing but bad press from it.

The club have dropped a clanger, they should have found someone to say something about the new stadium Howard is usually good to do these things and don't we pay a media spokesperson?

The bigger question here for me is how do we expect to attract new fans and sell teh game to manchester if we can't get our act together. The publicity for the new stadium should now be at the second stage where we are pushing awareness.

Every night Sale have a article in the MEN (misnamed as it has become a morning paper) Utd and City dominate the back pages and the central sections. We should have the buuilding bricks for the future in place and this is an indication that we haven't.