Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:27 am  

hatty wrote:

Your the one talking rubbish, what's Mo & Whelan got to do with my comment?

Something to do with your comment "IL has turned the club" and the fact that the previous owners were Mo and Dave maybe?

Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:31 pm  

From a Salford fans perspective I have a thirty-eight mile round trip to Salford.
Tried to buy tickets yesterday at the Cowboys training session and told no information yet
Just tried again at the Brisbane training session and told we haven't got tickets yet.
Add to this please consider also it could be Wednesday before I get off the Barton car park if you believe the tales we have to put up with.

[DaveO]

Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:08 pm  

We aren't the only RL club to share a ground. Hull and Hudds share with soccer teams and Salford with Sale RU.

Do they get messed about like this? I don't think so. Do they have to play away from home for weeks on end mid-season? Nope.

The fact we do is unacceptable. You could understand the midseason thing once while the situation was sorted out for good but it's clear it's now going to be every bloody season. Moving other fixtures like this Salford game is just rank bad planning. The soccer fixtures are known as are the RL fixtures before the first RL game kicks off including the dates of potential home ties in cup games.

To be having to change a fixture and give such short notice is very,very poor and reflects badly on IL and the club.

Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:20 pm  

We do unfortunately, in the past we've even had to play games at Leigh because Sale were given priority. Even just last week, our home game vs Leeds was moved from a Friday night to a Saturday due to Sale progressing to the next round of the cup with that game being shown on Sky.

Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:23 pm  

Finfin wrote:

Something to do with your comment "IL has turned the club" and the fact that the previous owners were Mo and Dave maybe?

The argument is that IL has turned the club into a business rather than a family club, this has nothing to do with previous owners/ chairmen.

Re: Salford game : Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:44 pm  

hatty wrote:

The argument is that IL has turned the club into a business rather than a family club, this has nothing to do with previous owners/ chairmen.

In modern sport there is an absolute requirement for a good business head to manage the day-to-day finances and turn a profit if at all possible. This farce with the wendyballers taking precedence is nothing to do with IL. The ground is owned by a company (that itself has to make a profit) that is still in part owned by the Whelan clan and their priority is soccer. Where I would lay blame for this is Rads. Is he not still "Rugby General Manager"? Exactly what is that supposed to be if not to keep an eye on schedules and potential pratfalls like this? Also, the RFL should know better in the first place and if any fault is to be sent in Lenagan's direction it's only insofar that he's patently not got the balls to stand up and fight our corner when the requirement is there.

Re: Salford game : Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:01 pm  

hatty wrote:

The argument is that IL has turned the club into a business rather than a family club, this has nothing to do with previous owners/ chairmen.

Of course it does; it shows that the previous owners demonstrated that a "family club" is not viable when it keeps on losing money. That, in essence, is why we don't have Central Park anymore.