Salford RL reflect the city in that respect. I mean, what is Salford, really? As much as I respect and will defend to the hills the identity of a place against its "administrative oppressor" such as Leigh re: Wigan, Castleford re: Wakefield, even St Helens re: Liverpool.

It seems Salford (the place) has lost the battle, and I can't tell where Salford starts and Manchester ends both geographically and spirituality. Therefore any love for RL is going to decline.

Any Salfordians care to put the record straight?

Think people need to be realistic , even when we had a semi decnet team the crowds weren't massive , definitely not the 8K which gets mentioned as a minimum. I'm a season ticket holder and so far this year we've played on a Thursday at 8 , Saturday at 3 , Sunday at 1 + 3 , Fridays at 8 . It makes the commitment to get one next year waver a bit as having a 9 year old who plays 3 sports my commitment is to get him to and from his games. That said , we've lost the last 4 including one against a team in the division below , the stadium and location is what it is and on Friday the traffic and weather was anightmare to get to the ground BUT I still got there. There is a level of apathy but being a Salford fan for as long as I can remember we've never challenged for much so to expect people to just decide to turn up is wishful thinking , it's a steady improvement with building on solid foundations that will do it , not quick fix signings , twitter rants etc. I'll still turn up as it's the team I support , it's the 50/50 or 40/60 people we need to get on board and good match day experiences will get those people but consisent match day experiences

I think you'll find there were very few Salford fans that took that opinion but it's far easier for you to generalise as you've probably encountered 3 or 4 of those aforementioned gobes. While we're on the subject of gobes, any chance you can take the likes of jools and meast back to your board? Thanks in advance.

Jesus Christ there are some obsessed fans on here. Let's just leave RL to the handful of teams that can pull 6k every match and throw the world conquering Leigh RLFC into the mix.

go back to the Salford board at the time he took over, it was cringeworthy at times.....

Running rugby newsletter leading with story about poor Salford crowds

This 'inundation' sounds quite avoidable.