Salford's First Game at Barton

[rayvon]

Sour and grapes. I couldn't give a spangles about that, we weren't right for SL that year.

We're in the league now and much deserved. I'll still be attending Salford, and really look forward to it for once! Use to hate going The Willows.

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What else could Steve Simms say?
"Yes, I think Widnes deserve a franchise more than us, we play in a condemned virtually derelict stadium, our new stadium is still years away, so in an ideal world the RFL should just give up on us and promote Widnes and Celtic"
He is bound to praise his own club, you wouldnt expect anything else, and as someone else said, we should be praising them for actually achieving the goal of getting to a new stadium
Its Wakey and Cas who should be getting their acts together or getting booted out

[mick george]

Sour and grapes. I couldn't give a spangles about that, we weren't right for SL that year.

We're in the league now and much deserved. I'll still be attending Salford, and really look forward to it for once! Use to hate going The Willows.

Spot on mate.
time to put the conspircy theories to bed and start supporting the game and not just one team

[ceejay]

I hope their move to Barton goes womanly-curves up and they attract even lower crowds than at The Willows.Fook em.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/rugby_league/s/1044561_salford_have_licence_to_thrill

A bit out of date this article was Dated April 2008

[BarryJohn]

This
What else could Steve Simms say?
"Yes, I think Widnes deserve a franchise more than us, we play in a condemned virtually derelict stadium, our new stadium is still years away, so in an ideal world the RFL should just give up on us and promote Widnes and Celtic"
He is bound to praise his own club, you wouldnt expect anything else, and as someone else said, we should be praising them for actually achieving the goal of getting to a new stadium
Its Wakey and Cas who should be getting their acts together or getting booted out

Brilliant post mate

[Chris B]

This
What else could Steve Simms say?
"Yes, I think Widnes deserve a franchise more than us, we play in a condemned virtually derelict stadium, our new stadium is still years away, so in an ideal world the RFL should just give up on us and promote Widnes and Celtic"
He is bound to praise his own club, you wouldnt expect anything else, and as someone else said, we should be praising them for actually achieving the goal of getting to a new stadium
Its Wakey and Cas who should be getting their acts together or getting booted out

Agree entirely with that mate, I think at the time though Dave Tarry came out with some disparaging comments about clubs with council owned stadiums and I think there were other comments (not sure who made these) warning the RFL about not being quick to believe clubs with recent financial issues making promises.
Wonder who they were talking about?  We love you too salford... In total I remember three or four articles in the MEN all with thinly veiled attacks on our bid whilst we did the job of focusing on our own.

Plus their whole application was based on, made up attendance figures, a rapidly unravelling promise to deliver an iconic 20,000 stadium and a pledge to attract more support from the massive Greater Manchester conurbation. Three years on and they have done absolutely stuff all.
 We now know that Red City Developments went under suspiciously close to the announcement,
 their crowds are still woeful,
 their hot young academy product upped and left (as he had done to us 2 years previously)
 they are now nothing more than tenants (and possibly soon to be junior tenants) in a council owned stadium
 they have achieved stuff all in the league

I also disagree heartily that we weren't ready three years ago. I'm not sure what has changed in the last three years that wasn't in place at the start of the 2009 season. I actually feel that we have been hamstrung in the last three years (about 500 regular attending fans have walked away in that time) and whilst I've enjoyed a lot of the rugby in the Championship I actually think we could be quite an established SL side now. For a kick off we wouldn't have faced quite the challenges in attracting top quality signings as we have done this year. Who knows what side we would have now having built year on year with SOC's backing.

I don't necessarily want them to fail... a big club in Manchester would be good for the game, but I understand why there is some bad sentiment towards them.

[LeedsViking]

Attendance 2818

I was told by a Salford fan that attendance was limited at the game as part of the build up to obtaining the full Health & Safety certificate

Somehow I doubt it was limited quite that much though

[Peter]

Agree entirely with that mate, I think at the time though Dave Tarry came out with some disparaging comments about clubs with council owned stadiums and I think there were other comments (not sure who made these) warning the RFL about not being quick to believe clubs with recent financial issues making promises.
Wonder who they were talking about?  We love you too salford... In total I remember three or four articles in the MEN all with thinly veiled attacks on our bid whilst we did the job of focusing on our own.

Plus their whole application was based on, made up attendance figures, a rapidly unravelling promise to deliver an iconic 20,000 stadium and a pledge to attract more support from the massive Greater Manchester conurbation. Three years on and they have done absolutely stuff all.
 We now know that Red City Developments went under suspiciously close to the announcement,
 their crowds are still woeful,
 their hot young academy product upped and left (as he had done to us 2 years previously)
 they are now nothing more than tenants (and possibly soon to be junior tenants) in a council owned stadium
 they have achieved stuff all in the league

I also disagree heartily that we weren't ready three years ago. I'm not sure what has changed in the last three years that wasn't in place at the start of the 2009 season. I actually feel that we have been hamstrung in the last three years (about 500 regular attending fans have walked away in that time) and whilst I've enjoyed a lot of the rugby in the Championship I actually think we could be quite an established SL side now. For a kick off we wouldn't have faced quite the challenges in attracting top quality signings as we have done this year. Who knows what side we would have now having built year on year with SOC's backing.

I don't necessarily want them to fail... a big club in Manchester would be good for the game, but I understand why there is some bad sentiment towards them.

Except that Salford is in Salford.

[Chris B]

Except that Salford is in Salford.

Well it is apart from around application time.

[RB]

Except that Salford is in Salford.

Except that Salford is in Barton.
Same borough no bus.

[PMW]

Hearing today that Salford have only sold 900 season tickets so far!!    And only sold approx 70 tickets for the game at Saints! Poor, even by their standards.

[efcviking]

Hearing today that Salford have only sold 900 season tickets so far!!    And only sold approx 70 tickets for the game at Saints! Poor, even by their standards.

That is extremely poor if true!