Re: Salford lads who have played for the club. : Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:33 pm  

paul groves

Re: Salford lads who have played for the club. : Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:29 pm  

Bigpev wrote:

you only have to look down Trafford Road to see the problem, but over the last 40 years i have played with some brilliant players at school who could have made a career out of rugby league but were not interested in rugby league. Salford has never had the rugby league community that the pits brought to a City or town, locally just look at Swinton more rugby league heritage than Salford, then look at Leigh, Wigan St Helens all pit towns, with large active miners welfare clubs in the past that fed the rugby league appetite.
The schools all played rugby league in my day and the PE teachers were very keen on Rugby league and many played or came from Rugby League areas, today that is not the case in many schools and rugby league is not coached as enthusiastically as it was then in my humble opinion with many other different sports being tried at many schools which have less injury risk.

Spot on,at the amateur club i was coaching at a few years back,my mate and myself only had 4 lads signed,we visited schools around Salford and ended up with 30 training tuesdays,thursdays and sat mornings,and ended with a really top team,so it can be done.I feel its the amateur clubs that need all the help they can get to build changing rooms,clubhouses to make them more player friendly,what gets my goat up is that union mob,we had a lad playing for us who went to a union playing school,he was told off his headmaster that if he carried on playing league he would be banned from all sports at school,true story,anyway after a meeting with his parents,who happened to be solicitors,and myself,he seen the errors of his ways and allowed the lad to keep on playing league.

Re: Salford lads who have played for the club. : Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:47 am  

mitie mouse wrote:

Spot on,at the amateur club i was coaching at a few years back,my mate and myself only had 4 lads signed,we visited schools around Salford and ended up with 30 training tuesdays,thursdays and sat mornings,and ended with a really top team,so it can be done.I feel its the amateur clubs that need all the help they can get to build changing rooms,clubhouses to make them more player friendly,what gets my goat up is that union mob,we had a lad playing for us who went to a union playing school,he was told off his headmaster that if he carried on playing league he would be banned from all sports at school,true story,anyway after a meeting with his parents,who happened to be solicitors,and myself,he seen the errors of his ways and allowed the lad to keep on playing league.

I experienced this as a young lad myself along with a few lads I know. Many of the RL playing lads also played Union on Saturdays and League on Sundays. As soon as the RU Clubs found out we/they were playing RL they threatened them with total Bans from even entering the Clubhouse let alone playing. Very sad that thirteen year olds, who play sport because they enjoy it, get told something as stupid as this. kids should be allowed to enjoy any sport without petty political bias effecting their development.

Nothing surprises me with regard to the way RU sees RL. Scum of the earth.

With the right drive and determination the Amateur game could flourish as kids will always gravitate to the exciting nature of RL.

Re: Salford lads who have played for the club. : Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:25 am  

Wakdens very own, Phil Wareing

Re: Salford lads who have played for the club. : Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:23 am  

We had a few players sign first team contracts all at the same time in the Andy Greg/Steve Mac era from Folly Lane!

Danny Barton
Dean Gorton
Gary O'regan
Micky Griffin
Liam Owen