Good article www.thebestof.co.uk/local/salfor ... -the-devil

Good article www.thebestof.co.uk/local/salfor ... -the-devil

Agreed.I am a huge admirer of the enthusiasm and energy levels of Louise but I don't think the game is on Sky TV.
I hope that fact is pushed nearer the time,just in case it prevents one or two attending the game.

I think that mistake has been pointed out to her and she's clarified it.
Personally myself if someone wasn't going to bother attending because it's on TV then They were never going to attend anyway.

Louise does a great job for the Red Devils. I think Friday 25th April will mark the 100 years since the first Championship for this great club. How about a big pre Catalan "do"at the the stadium?

And do you know that in the year of 1914 we won 19, drew 1 and lost 7 league matches (and of course won what was the equivalent of today's play-offs), odd as its the same amount of league matches we play in Super League, now wouldn't you settle for that this year?

It might also be the 100th anniversary of Archie Sutherland's death. I say that tentatively because it needs corroborating.

Archie is an important figure in RL. He was our club's inaugural secretary and it was his idea that Cavendish should rename themselves as Salford. Despite much opposition, he argued his position well enough to find an agreement. Later, he reported on football for the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clarion[iClarion[/i[/url — an important newspaper in left-wing politics and in the beginnings of the Labour movement — during the early 1890s in the Pastimes section under the pseudonym ‘Muff’.

In that time, he offered a platform for readers to express their support for a league competition in rugby and he ran an unofficial table called Muff’s Rugby League based on the results of ‘friendly’ fixtures between clubs. He, like many of the respondents, thought rugby was under threat from the national popularity of the relatively new Football League (and he was right). Sutherland also voiced his support for open professionalism in rugby, more akin to broken time payments than the ‘vulgarity’ of the waged soccer player.

In the months leading up to rugby’s split in 1895, either the [iClarion[/i dedicates less space to football, possibly because soccer is less a working player’s game — earning a crust solely from playing sport is a sore point, particularly for a socialist newspaper — or Sutherland writes less about the codes. Part of this was possibly forced as a fair few local clubs, including Salford, were banned by the RFU for ‘professionalism’. And, ironically in a way, Sutherland seemed quite unhappy about the prospect of rugby splitting into two. It had to be done but Sutherland was an idealist. He felt if rugby embraced financial reimbursements for working-class players, and league and cup competitions, the game could halt the slide towards soccer (rugby was initially more popular than soccer in Manchester), but splitting the game in half, geographically, would severely weaken the game (and he was right).

Finally, I cannot confirm nor deny whether his tagline was ‘can’t get enough of that wonderful Muff’. We can but hope that it was. But what a fine man.

I remember the 1979 Centenary match v Widnes. A 12,000 crowd and a hot meal after the game in the Variety Centre.I see that Louise on twitter is suggesting a special shirt to mark the 100 years since our first championship, to be worn at the Giants game on 18th April. This is the nearest date to the title victory in 1914. A good idea in my opinion. If the shirt is not possible then how about 6 stars on the shirt for the Championships won ?

It's worthy of note that the Club also went bankrupt following that 1914 1st Championship win , reforming as 'The' Salford Football Club Company ( 1914) Ltd. in July 1914 , and so it remained for the next 99 years ...
Remember in Salford every silver lining has it's cloud.

2014 is also the Chinese Year of the Horse and I wonder who has a lot of these?
Could be yet another omen!!

Proves Stuart Littler is the last signing, top try scorer in SL, Man Of Steal, Lance Todd Trophy and Nobel prize winner all in one year.

Interesting stuff. Good work!

Very interesting article by CHICO on Archie Sutherland (Muff )
Could do with him writing for the MEN