Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:15 pm  

What a joke we are, some people really need sacking from the club.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:26 pm  

...... for those of us who haven't seen the Boots 'n' All article, is anybody able to enlighten us ?
Thanks

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:48 pm  

JJ they did reports on Sts new stadium udate + interview with a board member at the club & also discused Wakey & Cas stadium merger with an interview with a cas board member + both sets of fans.
Eddie then remarked that Salford were asked but didnt get back to them.

What fans have to realize is, it is not OUR stadium to make statements about, it will belong to the community & Peel who have a joint venture, so therefore, it is up to them to make any statements, not the club.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:49 pm  

Jim Jalfrezi wrote:

...... for those of us who haven't seen the Boots 'n' All article, is anybody able to enlighten us ?
Thanks

They ran a feature on St Helens' new stadium and on the proposals for a Wakey/Cas groundshare. At the end of that they said that if there's any Salford fans watching, they aren't ignoring Salford; they asked Salford for information for a feature and the club didn't get back to them after saying it would. Great.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:57 pm  

billybradshawsmum wrote:

What fans have to realize is, it is not OUR stadium to make statements about, it will belong to the community & Peel who have a joint venture, so therefore, it is up to them to make any statements, not the club.

What the club has to realise is that Sky are the paymasters and that Boots n All is the sport's main magazine show. If the club do not wish to a) look stupid, b) look lazy, or c) look like they are trying to cover something up, then they themselves need to either get the best information they can from Peel and the Council to give to Sky, or at least get some sort of statement to them - Not give the impression that they've done nothing. Whilst it may well not be a stadium built and owned by Salford City Reds let's not pretend that it's absolutely noting to do with the club, without them nobody would be building a stadium and a plot of contaminated land in the city would continue to lie unused.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:00 pm  

billybradshawsmum wrote:

JJ they did reports on Sts new stadium udate + interview with a board member at the club & also discused Wakey & Cas stadium merger with an interview with a cas board member + both sets of fans.
Eddie then remarked that Salford were asked but didnt get back to them.

What fans have to realize is, it is not OUR stadium to make statements about, it will belong to the community & Peel who have a joint venture, so therefore, it is up to them to make any statements, not the club.

Come on Shirl I know your involved with the club and have strong connections, but lets not make excuses for what is a very poor effort by the club. Why say they'd get back then not? Its p!ss poor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but are the stadiums of Saints and Cas/Wakey their own ventures? I don't think they are yet they all still managed to make a statement on them.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:18 pm  

Thanks for the replies folks.
Don't really know what to think.
One thing for sure is that a lack of reply seems like a hell of a way to alienate us still further from the big clubs, traditional clubs and other hotbed clubs.
Jeez it's hard enough being stuck in this football mad city of ours as it is.
Although as BBM points out, it's not actually our development.
Nonetheless, a little more enthusiasm on the PR front wouldn't go amiss.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:35 pm  

Well the general lack of any kind of promotion from the club regaurding the progress of the work is dissapointing, I did think they might have approached Barton Flyer to use some of the shots he took from the old Sopwith Camel but obviously didnt.
Think for the Boots and All program we could have got someone from both the council and Peel to assist, would have been marvelous PR for all three entitiies to be seen to even in these times or great hardship to be pooling resources and working towards providing a lasting legacy for the community of Salford and beyond.

Does seem rather unprofessional not not even get back to say they couldn't comment as it isnt strictly our stadium.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:49 pm  

Can't believe that anybody would defend the club on this. Fact is... when the chairman is unavailable... nobody knows what to do.

There would have been panic... "oh no... Sky want to know something about the stadium... whatever are we going to do ? The Chairman isn't here"

Perhaps we ask the PR department....

"Stadium ? We are building a stadium ? Serious ? Nobody told us."

Shambles.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:06 pm  

LoyalFan wrote:

Can't believe that anybody would defend the club on this. Fact is... when the chairman is unavailable... nobody knows what to do.

There would have been panic... "oh no... Sky want to know something about the stadium... whatever are we going to do ? The Chairman isn't here"

Perhaps we ask the PR department....

"Stadium ? We are building a stadium ? Serious ? Nobody told us."

Shambles.

Funny,

Harsh,

But sadly fair.