Re: Salford : Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:35 pm  

The Speculator wrote:

I want to see Salford survive and I hope some sort of arrangement can be agreed. However, signing players when they knew about these cashflow problems, and then going to the other clubs and asking them to sanction an advance is taking the Mickey somewhat.

It’s maybe why the other clubs have gone away to think about it and delayed the decision.

Re: Salford : Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:39 pm  

I think Salford would find a fat investment and blue chip sponsors if they rebranded as Manchester.
Salford is always going to be that scruffy little cousin down the road to Manchester.

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:15 am  

The location of their stadium is a major issue in getting people through the turnstiles. It's just too much trouble parking, getting to and from etc. Compare that to the HJ, especially on a Saturday afternoon when fans pack the nearby town centre pubs and eating places. Thank God we didn't go for the out of town option in 2002 with the horrific Limekiln plan.

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:27 pm  

TF and the wire wrote:

The location of their stadium is a major issue in getting people through the turnstiles. It's just too much trouble parking, getting to and from etc. Compare that to the HJ, especially on a Saturday afternoon when fans pack the nearby town centre pubs and eating places. Thank God we didn't go for the out of town option in 2002 with the horrific Limekiln plan.

Ooohhh i'd never heard that before about the out of town location.

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:54 pm  

Yes, the club was talking about a site on the edge of the old Burtonwood airfield as close to St Helens town centre as Warrington's. Nothing around it, just a massive car park. 99% of speccies would have to drive or take two or more buses. We would have been the new Salford.

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:07 pm  

TF and the wire wrote:

Yes, the club was talking about a site on the edge of the old Burtonwood airfield as close to St Helens town centre as Warrington's. Nothing around it, just a massive car park. 99% of speccies would have to drive or take two or more buses. We would have been the new Salford.

That was a bullet dodged.

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:37 pm  

We should be incredibly thankful for initially fantastic support from the council and subsequently support from Moran and latterly Middleton.

But the council fostered this growth in the club, land given by Tetley Walkers, Planning Permission for the supermarket and stadium given by the council on the condition Tesco paid for the stadium. Fit out of stadium then paid for by sponsorship through Martin Dawes I think? Look at other deals for council built stadiums and we’ve been very lucky to end up with a facility that is owned by us when you look at Hull FC, Leigh, Salford, Saints etc etc.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Salford : Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:45 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I think Salford would find a fat investment and blue chip sponsors if they rebranded as Manchester.
Salford is always going to be that scruffy little cousin down the road to Manchester.

I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense.

For all there are 'unsavory' areas, every town has them and Salford is a city btw, there is wealth in Salford, Fred and Peter Done are perhaps best known in that category, the trick is finding one that is interested in the sport and their hometown club.

Salford is has a strange demographic, yes it does get over shadowed by its conjoined twin and does suffer with its identity to distinguish itself from Manchester particularly as an evening there would be classed as going uptown. But it does have a Cathedral, a proper University, two Rugby League teams, a Football Team in the old Fourth Division and the area around the Docks is impressive

For all the limitations in numbers Salford do have a group of diehards and I'm not sure they would relocate and accept a rebrand and I don't see 6,000 Mancunians waiting in the wings to take their place.

They missed the boat IMO with the ground location and its design somewhere like Agecroft, or as part of a redevelopment of Littleton Road sharing with Salford City and Swinton might have made more sense