"despite overwhelming odds against it even existing"


At last we get to the crux: the amount of criticism we get on a national stage on crowds, violent fans, and poor play (I decided to theck and every - yes every - game we have won has been reported in the press as the other side - Saints, London, Bulls etc -playing badly.

But we are still there and down to the club officials. I accept we can and should complain but everyone makes mistakes. Overall we do not make many and this is shown as we still exist.

Compare us to Oldham, Hornets or Swinton: all are faced with our inherent problems and more because of the way they were ran.

so whats the situation with the new stadium then last i heard was when eddie on sky said that the new stadium would deffo be built for the end of nxt season thats what wilkinson told him confidently, he also said that all preperation work was been done. so is the funding in place,is preperation in place and most importantly when is the stadium due to be started? are you at the same stage as saints as for there stadium.

Arliebird, the funding is now all in place. The preparation work started in April and its really coming on. Diggers on site working 6 days a week 10/12 hours a day and are making great progress on the site.

The final desgins are being finalised....and I think they are sorting tenders and stuff out at the moment /soon.

The preparation work finshes and building work is due to start in October this year.

We're at a similar stage to saints althoguh theyve appointed their bulder but we havent yet (or its not been made public)

so its all looking good so far!! finally!!

airlie bird, go to page 13 on this thread some photos posted although from a month ago & a lot more work has been done since & lower down that page is some plans of the stadium.

I can safely say if i did that they wouldnt owe me anything they have given me some of the best moments in my life allowed me to meet some fantastic people and become a rounder person.............if they wish to pay for my hair replacement theropy i need as i keep ripping out or treatment for any stress related ilnesses i suffer from in the coming years then that would be great much better than the odd newsletter




As for the stadium it looks like the development is going great guns at present its good to see peel and the other parties involved mean business.

People will start believing when you see bricks ans mortor in october.

Excellent post.

Another matter is that the owners will be looking to get the tenants in asap. We know we are in but all hints point to Sale (who are as popular at Stockport as LoyalFan is on this thread). Sale will demand priority on fixtures.

thanks for imfo, good to see it coming along hopefully we will see you in the stadium for 2012 and see your club really develop like yourselfs.

Tenders were due in last week , Project developer - Main Contractor is known but not yet public knowledge.
There's a alot of work being done in a very short time since the demise of Red City Developments. It's now a community project with Salford a tenant. so they're very circumspect with comments about the project I guess.

You seem to be further ahead on the site works, though. We demolished some of the warehousing on our site just before Christmas and then all fell silent until the announcement the other week (we had no updates at all in that time). Now we have a rather splendid sign declaring work is to begin (well, it says 'Here we go, here we go, here we go ...' actually). But still no on-site work happening yet! So we may have our contractor but we have no work; you have work but no contractor yet!

I wonder which stadium will be up and running first? My guess is yours. When is the projected date you can move in?

I think I'm right in saying that the date set out is December 2011, so we can play our first game there at the start of 2012.

I assume our funding contract was already signed with NWDA?

I think the NWDA money was just for remediation, and that contract was awarded in the last financial year.

Surely a Boxing Day Friendly to open the stadium would be the order of the day? Big sell out local derby against Swinton anyone?

Surely we'd invite Leigh - after we were the first game in their new stadium AND they'd bring a capacity crowd - so many it would probably be a lock-out!

Warrington or Wigan for the first league game would be nice.

So anymore pics of the stadium site?

We'd need 'ramp-up' events around Xmas 2011 to get the safety certs fpr the new stadium, so you may well be right.

Hopefully you'll start with Swinton, then Leigh, Wire and then Wigan, from what I remember they are a right pain in the @rse but they have to be done I suppose. I think we 'officially' opened our stadium four times, even the Queen had enough of us messing about and decided to come sort it out herself!!

wouldn't let that parasite near our ground.

When she opened Newbridge in Eccles she was heard to say she didn't really like Manchester!!!!

Roll on the revolution

wonder who our last ever game at the Willows will be against? No doubt we'll have all the "oh I've been a Salford fan all my life" armchair "fans" coming out of the woodwork for that one!!

Love it, love it, love it!

However, I'd love to be given the chance to start a mass booing of royalty so let's hope one of them turns up.

Hopefully we'll have about 15 'last games' like Wire.

Last Academy game ...
Last cup match ...
Last league game ...
Last playoff game ... (fingers crosed?!

)
Last domestic friendly ...
Last friendly against international opposition ...
Last game against a national side ...
Last last game ...
etc.

blogs.independent.co.uk/ 2010/07/28/rugby-league-salford-could-be-the-winners-of-castleford-and-wakefield-stadium-battle/

blogs.independent.co.uk/ 2010/07/28/rugby-league-salford-could-be-the-winners-of-castleford-and-wakefield-stadium-battle/