I think they are more worried that he is staying

stopped all the promising and keeping us in the dark about the whole situation! Do you really think that the club haven't known about this for a while now?

I have to admit that this is poor form on the part of the club in terms of keeping the fans informed..

If he has made this sort of explosive statement at a meeting not directly linked with the club and then this result today seemingly matches the worst fears of your Chairman then you would normally expect most clubs to put something out there.

I'm not sure what the normal method of updating the fans is; by website or radio or paper. In any case there are going to be a few worried fans out there tonight that would like some explanation.

I'm sure the club would like to search around for any spot of hope to tag on the end of this but they need to communicate now I would suggest........ even if it is to dispel this as being untrue..

I cannot believe there is no plan B.

The chances of the stadium being built on the scale it was originally planned was always unlikley.
Perhaps if they hadn't been over ambitious we would have had a small box-like stadium that shared a car park with a supermarket by now.

TBH some people have never got to grips with the fact that Salford is a small club with a really poor support. I admire JW for him efforts to try to create something bigger, but perhaps he was more concerned with his own legacy to the club rather than what it really needs.

It's disappointing, but there should be a plan B as the people involved would have known for some time that this was likely to happen.

Perhaps the club is looking for another funding stream - let's not read too much into this being the anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek (Little Big Horn to 7th Cavalry fans).

i have a plan b
me and fungus the muffin man and red devil will go around with strippy shirts on and rob a load of swag till we can buy a new stadium ,
then we will call it the fungus stadium
we will have a part of the ground called the mushroom
that will be the board room
we can keep all the fans in the dark and feed them full of crap
we will sign players past there sell by date
and when we are playing swinton in the local derbys we will let everyone in for nothing ,middleman can be on the board so can the butcher , ave can be chairman coz he is a good fan who talks sense and goes to most games , and anyone else we like , it helps if your mad but thats not really a must


keep the faith

The fans dont mean anything to this club and we still waste are money going we need the club to come out and say what is going on before it gets to all the papers which i am sure wont be far off getting old of this story. They will be a laughing stock then the board

It would appear that most of the fans want to know what is happening regarding the stadiums. Ok, its simple. The stadium despite all the PROMISES that it will definitely be built is not going to happen. (along with the PROMISES of all the big names we are going to sign every year - too many broken promises). Bye Bye Super league and the club will be in serious danger of completely going out of business. Time we got used to it.

If the stadium dosent get the go ahead i see no reason why Super League would want to keep us. That begs the question as to would SL have any recourse to cancel our franchise early if it became obvious we were not able to fulfill the promises we made in our application. Pessemistic as i am normally i find myself even more in despair than usual tonight.

I think you raise a good point and tbh we may be better off being put out of our misery sooner rather than later if the staduim dos`nt come off.An awful thought but thats the way it is with me at the moment.

The club is ed and dont have a plan b that simple john wilky has lost £800,000 on this project and 2 years time we will be playin swinton why the fuk did they promise so much but deliver so litlle

planned stadium and college development in Greater Manchester has been cast in to doubt as a result of the ongoing funding problems with the Learning and Skills Council's stricken Building Colleges for the Future scheme.
The proposed scheme would have housed the new Salford City College campus and the new stadium for Rugby League team Salford City Reds.

But the college – an amalgamation of three existing Salford further education colleges and a key partner in the project – may have to pull out if it does not receive funding from the LSC.

The Building Colleges for the Future Programme, which was originally worth £2.3 billion in 2008-11/09, was hit by a funding crisis after the Learning and Skills Council over-pledged its budget by £5.7 billion.

In last week’s Budget the chancellor announced £300 million of extra funding for the initiative.

The LSC is currently reassessing the national projects that they can deliver and the criteria on which the funding can be released.

Reds chief executive David Tarry said: :1rlgb0bkThe stadium will happen and if Peel Holdings, along with a landmark site that already has planning permission for stadium and retail use.

Salford-born communities secretary Hazel Blears names the Reds as her favourite sports team. In her school days she attended Eccles college, one of the further education bodies being merged into the new super college.

fuk of tarry

I dont believe anything dave tarry speaks he is the biggest idiot at the club and always talks up aload of crap. Its about time the club come out and tell us what is going on or people are just not going to bother with this club anymore

dont be saying that you will get all the old timers on here slagging you off!

"Those colleges who can go ahead with their projects are: Barnsley College, Bournville College, Furness College, Hartlepool College of Further Education, Kirklees College, Leyton Sixth Form College, Manchester College - Wythenshawe, North West Kent College, St Helens College, Sandwell College, South Thames College, Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education, Corby, and West Cheshire College.

The LSC said it had selected for approval the projects which would have the biggest impact for learners, employers and communities, as well as considering the current condition of the college's buildings and any impact on associated projects. "

BBC news. Some of these colleges were in the middle of redevelopment anyway and would have gone bust if not saved.

Can someone confirm that we cannot bid for next year?

We could've been in a Halliwell Jones style stadium by now but instead decided to persist with the ambitious iconic design despite the numerous setbacks.

This signals the DEATH of the Salford RLFC!!!!!!!
No stadium means no franchise next time round. No franchise means ever dwindling crowds to swinton like proportions and eventually going out of business. Somebody said put it all on hold til the economic crisis is over. When might that be?

JW has been promising us big things since 1984 and not one of them has been delivered. Before everyone jumps on me and says he's ploughed money into the club, I KNOW HE HAS!!!!

However, when you analyse it the club is no better off now than when he took over.

Back then we were in serious danger of going out of busness until the fans were asked again and again to put their hands in their pockets to bail us out. I did a sponsored up and under on the pitch at half time of one game, aged 10 years!

25 years on and we stand at the point where unless we desperately find funding we will go out of business through the lack of top flight rugby.

Into the bargain it's 25 years where the only glory we have had has been 2nd divison trophies and the distinction of knocking Wigan out of the cup for the first time in 8 years; a cup we subsequently didn't win!!!!

FED UP WITH YOUR PROMISES. JW COULD EASILY BE AN MP- HE HAS BEEN MAKING FALSE CLAIMS FOR 25 YEARS!!!!

Right go on then all have your go at me. Call me what you want. Jump to JW's defence again. Writing this breaks my heart but THE TRUTH HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Wakefield are OK because their stadium is tied in with the development of the college. I feared Salford might get overlooked due to Bolton and now Manchester being approved thats two large campuses in Greater manchester, three if you include Leigh's sporting village.

Now its gone quite on the casino front nationwide why don't we try and sneak that in again, or Peel build it and us revenue from Port Salford?

Outstanding post Red13pjb Cant agree more. Prepare to be shot down though by wilky fanclub

So, once again, tell us what the man could have done differently?

the rfl can not kick us out soley on the basis of us having no stadium look at st helens castleford celtic hull kr, ok they may be better in other departments than us but they have all got bad grounds with bad facilities also

1. Bought better players
2. Not let the Willows get so run down
3. Not sold the willows (the parallels with swinton are scary, we have no ground!!!!! We don't own the one we play at and will no doubt soon be kicked out).
4. STOPPED PROMISING STUFF HE COULDN'T ACHIEVE

could buy the ground back at a lot less than he sold it for do to the drop in land and property prices.

He'd have been better off not letting idiots like you into the Willows for a start

You're a nutter