: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:39 am  

bobby dave wrote:

lets be honest,if the rfl did not want a team from Manchester you would not have got a franchise,promised new gound!bollxxxx,whenwe see it being built i hope you theall the best.untill then i feel sorry for all your visiting fans.and before you all start spouting off i lived in Salford for many years and the Willows has always been a poor facility.

If you lived in Salford for many years, then you ought to know it isn't in Manchester. But, even if we ignore your inability to recognise geographical boundaries, your argument is still a crock of 5h1te. Who should have got a franchise in Salford's place? Widnes - a club that's had three owners in as many years and who bankrupted themselves just 12 months ago? Leigh - a club who have spent one solitary season in SL and who delaminated at the end of it?

The Willows is a bit of a dump. But so are Knowsley Road, Wheldon Road, Craven Park and - worst of all - Belle Vue. The state of the stadium was only one criterion by which teams were judged. Salford did reasonably well on most of the others (such as on field performance - did you know Salford have spent nearly as many years in SL as all the other non-SL applicants put together?) and were awarded a franchise on merit, not because of some RL conspiracy to keep 'big' clubs like Leigh out.

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:50 am  

COME ON PEEL HOLDINGS.

SO PISSING ABOUT AND START WORK ON THE NEW STADIUM A.S.A.P.

I'm sure the new stadium will get built but to be honest it's becoming a bit of a joke at this time.

Let's see some workmen on the site at least before the end of the year.

*RANT OVER*

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:19 am  

Red John wrote:

If you lived in Salford for many years, then you ought to know it isn't in Manchester. But, even if we ignore your inability to recognise geographical boundaries, your argument is still a crock of 5h1te. Who should have got a franchise in Salford's place? Widnes - a club that's had three owners in as many years and who bankrupted themselves just 12 months ago? Leigh - a club who have spent one solitary season in SL and who delaminated at the end of it?

The Willows is a bit of a dump. But so are Knowsley Road, Wheldon Road, Craven Park and - worst of all - Belle Vue. The state of the stadium was only one criterion by which teams were judged. Salford did reasonably well on most of the others (such as on field performance - did you know Salford have spent nearly as many years in SL as all the other non-SL applicants put together?) and were awarded a franchise on merit, not because of some RL conspiracy to keep 'big' clubs like Leigh out.

good post mate

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:19 am  

Red John wrote:

If you lived in Salford for many years, then you ought to know it isn't in Manchester. But, even if we ignore your inability to recognise geographical boundaries

Like it or not but the city of Salford is still with the Manchester metro area and is still attached to Manchester. Move on!

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:20 am  

Mr James ROwley wrote:

COME ON PEEL HOLDINGS.

SO PISSING ABOUT AND START WORK ON THE NEW STADIUM A.S.A.P.

I'm sure the new stadium will get built but to be honest it's becoming a bit of a joke at this time.

Let's see some workmen on the site at least before the end of the year.

*RANT OVER*

Can't believe big John W is all quiet about this!!!

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:33 am  

GanEden wrote:

Like it or not but the city of Salford is still with the Manchester metro area and is still attached to Manchester. Move on!

What a fool or should that be tool!

Salford is in Lanacashire and always will be, just because a few years back they decided to form a new metropolitian in Greater Manchester doesnt mean we are anyway connected there is actually a great divide between the 2 cities boundries known as the river irwell.

Stop trolling and move on pin d*ck!

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:40 am  

Probably waiting for the recession to hit hard then hire workers cheaper than they should be

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:41 am  

Theres actually more activity/work happeneing on the opposite side of the M60 behind the swinging bridge where I presume the new hotels going????

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:16 pm  

"Like it or not but the city of Salford is still with the Manchester metro area and is still attached to Manchester. Move on!"

If Leigh can claim some form of independence from Wigan, if Widnes and Runcorn are separate, if Leeds and Bradford are clearly apart - then so are Manchester and Salford.

Please go on the Oldham/Rochdale/Leigh/ Wigan/Swinton sites and tell them that they are Mancs as well (your logic says they are) and leave us alone.

Oldham's ground is closer to the Manchesterboundary than the Willows!

: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:50 pm  

Hillbilly_Red wrote:

"Like it or not but the city of Salford is still with the Manchester metro area and is still attached to Manchester. Move on!"

If Leigh can claim some form of independence from Wigan, if Widnes and Runcorn are separate, if Leeds and Bradford are clearly apart - then so are Manchester and Salford.

Please go on the Oldham/Rochdale/Leigh/ Wigan/Swinton sites and tell them that they are Mancs as well (your logic says they are) and leave us alone.

Oldham's ground is closer to the Manchesterboundary than the Willows!

But did they include the population of Salford and Manchester in thier Licence application or just Salford ?