Sale fans.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the 1,500 fans we're going to attract from them.

The 250,000 people a day who cross Barton Bridge.

Prepare yourselves guys in 3 years time we will be praying that we can secure a new tenancy with Swinton in the new Salford Community stadium where they have primacy of tenure.I just see no good ending to where we are.The irony being that the City of Salford Stadium will have a team from Cheshire and a 2nd team from Stretford in it

which is better than the Olympic stadium will have or Wembley, I note no teams are tenants at either

I am not, but a certain football team in another council built stadium were relying on that for years and without a sugar daddy would still be now.

Yes I am very worried for the future, and the thing that is going to bring people in is winning but also forming some attachment to Salford city reds which the majority of the city don't have.

Two good points Pev.

Winning will always be the big factor, but you hit the nail on the head when you said the people of Salford are generally uninterested in SCR. Maybe its football, maybe its the financial demographic of the area, who knows?

Totally irrelevant to Salford Rugby League Football Club. And I don't see the point in that post other than your hatred of City?




And if that's the case, we're fighting a losing a battle and we might as well call it a day now.

FWIW I think there is an interest in Salford for a successful rugby league team, it's just the lack of on field and off success in recent years that has knocked peoples confidence in Salford as a club. It it will take a few years of being a decent team to get that back, but there is interest out there not enough as we would like granted, but defiantly enough for us to be getting 8-10k on a regular basis with a good team.

They are generally uninterested in a team that has been consistently bad for 30+ years. I just do not accept there is such little interest in RL in Salford that we are incapable of doubling our support in the next few years. The potential number of people we could tap into is huge, but we don't.

Also a good point.

My thoughts on the subject is that Salford has a low number of hardcore fans and potentially a high number of floaters. Success would pull the part-timers in again, but success is a catch-22 for the likes of us that need more money from the turnstiles to compete. No success = no crowds. No crowds = no money. How can we break the cycle?

Thats true Butcher - remember the Wigan match a couple of years ago when we were eventually hammered but we brought a lot.

How anybody can put the blame on the people of Salford for the club being in the mess its in is having a laugh,you are really scrapping the barrel now,stay at the willows and we die a slow death,we`ve got to move to this all singing all dancing stadium,then we will be one of the elite teams in SL,full salary cap,full sponsorships and full stadium,well that seems to be working aye,like always or we get thats full is bull/hit,until this regime as gone then we are on that slippery sliding road to oblivion,its taken 30yrs to get here,no home to call our home,a lifeless stadium,depending on away support to bolster the attendance figures,and to cap it all off its the Salford people whos to blame,can you really blame them for not coming to a stadium that is miles away from home,a nightmare to get to,a team that ever hardly wins,oh,and £20 please.

You and your comma key should get a room!

Hope you were being ironic there MM. You managed to ridicule a point of view then back it up in the same paragraph. Of course you may have meant it but it's hard to tell.

You could decipher it?

Bletchley Park awaits if you did.

i don't hate them, all i was stating was what was happening when I worked at that club in the 90's.

I am also not blaming the people of Salford, what i was saying is that the majority don't feel any attachment to SCR and somehow the club have to find a way of connecting with these people.

A poor attendance at Warrington,yet they take 30 thousand to Wembley.
Some may blame the stadium,owner,board,car park,attendants,security,turnstile operators et.al but it may take
success on the field for the modern public to feel connected to the club/sport.
Chicken and egg,and nothing those charged with the responsibility can do about it.
Still,as we exist in the zeitgeist of the blame culture...

Even the optimists must admit that the situation for the club doesn't look good.We don't own our ground,we have a very high cost to pay to play there(attendances required beyond the quality of our team).We are struggling to pay our tax bills.The team is settling into its usual position.Its all catch 22 can't improve the team,can't improve the attendances,etc.
Not an attractive propostion for new investment as there are no assets it all equals a downward spiral unless a very rich,very mad Salford fan appears out of nowhere.

Unfortunately I tend to agree with all you say - however no RL club is exactly an "attractive investment", there will always be better ways to get a return on your money than putting it into Rugby League - sporting clubs are increasingly rich men's playthings we just need to hope that the sugar-daddy for Salford is out there somewhere

and would you invest with increasing numbers of RL bosses stating there should be 12 SL teams (and not proposing their club be relegated)? Salford must be in their sights.

It's a pity Fred Done won't step in, especially as he can afford to pay out on United winning the title far too bloody early... He's clearly got enough cash to waste away if he can do that!

Just because a person comes from Salford does not mean s/he has any concern for Rugby League never mind Salford RLFC.
Mr Done has zero interest in us (except as a funding stream) so let's leave him out.

Actually, I feel the next chairman is already on the horizon and has links with Sale. Just a hunch.

He is e entitled to is opinion.A post like this just makes you look a clown.

Thanks, for, your, i,n,p,u,t. I'm unsure, what his/her, point, was though, as, it, was a, baffling, intangible mess.

i recon this wil be the case, will definately need a massive PR excerise to win us fans round...