I see on sky sports news we are merging with oldham is it a good idea at this moment in time when we are still not sure of are survival. Or are we to take oldham with us. Would be good idea if are club was in good state and question timing.

Merging?

All these 'signing' and twinning announcements are for is to make you forget the latest takeover announcement date has passed yet again. None of it will happen unless someone pulls their finger out.

Which date was that?

New one on me as well.

Yesterday according to the esteemed MEN last week.

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Link? I did see the MEN state that a link up with Oldham would be announced on Tuesday, but I've not seen an actual date given for a takeover announcement. There's been various approximate times speculated, but I'm not sure that we've ever had a date for an announcement set.

I wasn't encouraged by the quote attributed to the Mayor,Ian Stewart,in the RLE this week.
I was hoping someone would expand on that.
Experiencing 2 communication vacuums doesn't make life easy or plan aheadable.

What was the quote? I can't say I'm encouraged by his comments in the MEN about wanting the fans to own the club - not because I dislike the principle of fan ownership (I don't - but don't think 1000% fan ownership could work at Salford at the moment), but because it could be interpreted as "well, nobody else wants to own them".

Date wasn't given for oldham link up but i thought the takeover was going to be complete by Tuesday as it was discussed elsewhere on here last week. Someone gave the reason that the boss of Peel would't be back till Monday. Its all rubbish anyway. Players wages must be due again. I fear if it's not sorted soon then an administrator will be running your club.

www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... city-reds/

www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... city-reds/

Made me laugh regarding the comment Oldham will benefit from Salfords sales and marketing initiatives. Oldham will be showing our club how to run things better.

Oldham fans must be gutted they've got us.

No, Jackie! This link: www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... long-loan/

No, Jackie! This link: www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... long-loan/

i lost count of the number of fans that said they'd never watch oldham again.....


its a complete joke

Where Oldham may benefit is if there are some ticket offer for fans of the two clubs. I'd certainly be more likely to use a ticket offer to watch Oldham at Whitebank than Sale at Salford.

Andy Wilson Labelled the Salford - Oldham Link up as significant and good for both clubs.
some of the other 'partnerships ' ( Wolves - Swinton / Saints - Hornets )amount to virtual takeovers.
the Salford - Oldham agreement seems on reflection more symbiotic .
It seems the knee jerk reaction on the Oldham forum has been hugely negative, maybe with rememberance of the Pre superleague moves to force us the merge in the Mid 90's .
a few of the criticisms levelled were:-,
[uOh so Salford Get the pick of Oldham Area Talent [/u- Oldham based Players have been poached for decades- Harris- Sculthorpe - Sinfield- McDermott. At least this way there may be a route that promotes Oldham based players via their home town club if even for a short period.
[uSalford are Crap why bother?- [/uEven though we are a 'minnow' SL outfit , there are still lots of players in the championship who came through salfords academy teams , competent Pro Ruby players not SL but available to play NL1 or Championship , there are currently no RL development managers covering the Oldham Area, it may actually raise the profile of the club rather than shadow it .
Because we aren't cash rich there will be less chance of Oldham being pushed into decisions they aren't happy with .
With Reds Academy Players turning out for the Roughyeds, and possibly the Willows Main Stand North/South wings rising Pheonix-like at Whitebank there will be Reds Supporters who may venture down for the odd game , and th probability that the two clubs will encourage this.

in my humble opinion of course!

Quote ="pandasdad"No, Jackie! This link: www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... long-loan/'" That seems to suggest Marriott is playing for Oldham next season not up in Cumbria as we first thought. Might be why we let him go if we knew he could get a full season with Oldham and then if needed at any point come back to us.

Quote ="pandasdad"No, Jackie! This link: www.roughyeds.co.uk/latest-news/ ... long-loan/'" That seems to suggest Marriott is playing for Oldham next season not up in Cumbria as we first thought. Might be why we let him go if we knew he could get a full season with Oldham and then if needed at any point come back to us.

I totally understand and supoort the opposition to things like this but don't you think this will be another rugby league idea that fizzles out into nothing and the impact on both clubs will be close to minimal, if anything?

Andy Wilson said in the comments thread underneath the Gleeson article in The Guardian.....



Not sure i entirely understand it. Interesting that he talks of peel being a done deal. But sounds like it might be more hope than anything concrete

Link [urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/22/martin-gleeson-salford-drug-ban[/url

he's basically saying the RFL needs a stronger presence around manchester

its no good having big events in manchester when the teams in the towns surrounding manchester are !


i think thats what he means? lol

Oh so Salford Get the pick of Oldham Area Talent - Oldham based Players have been poached for decades- Harris- Sculthorpe - Sinfield- McDermott. At least this way there may be a route that promotes Oldham based players via their home town club if even for a short period.

Salford first team squad members 2012/13 LEE JEWITT, MARC SNEYD & GARETH OWEN, all Oldham lads form the Waterhead Club !! Oh yes lets not forget PAUL HIGHTON (Oldham/Waterhead)

Lee Jewitt - we signed him from Wigan
Paul Highton - we signed him from Halifax
they'd already been to oldham and had their pick

Marc Sneyd - signed onto Salford's Academy at 14 yrs old , his Brother Carl Plays for Rochdale not Oldham ,Gareth Owen sign as a 15 yr old. Is there a system to develop 14-18 yr olds to SL Level in Oldham ?
[url=http://www.salfordonline.com/sport_page/39757-exclusive:_young_star_sneyd_ready_to_step_up_for_salford.htmlYoung star Sneyd ready to step up for Salford[/url

More to the point,is there any system to develop 14-18yr old in Salford,ther seems to be a serious amount of our own kids not being considered.