Quote ="The optimist"Have to agree with LF unfortunatley at salford the people in key positons at the club dont make the right decitions / show the right leadership / ambition to take us to the next level, i do feel sorry for the people who actually do the work its a uphill battle every day.
People are worried about sale coming and taking over, what they are taking over exactly id like to know, they wont own the stadium, from what i see they are mid table at present and have a quite important month, flop and they will be down near the bottom they arnt the sale of a few years ago most of their "stars" have gone they are a team in transformaton at present and we have seen so many faulse dawns who is to say sale wont do the same.
I did see on Granada tonight sale would play at barton "if the price was right" which is a bit cheeky imo, the stadium was built for the people of the city of salford to enjoy and the facilities with the help of the council if sale arnt willing to pay "full rent" as they arnt salford in anyway and wont bring anything to the city then they know were stockport is stay there where the majority of their support comes from.
Living in sale i can say ive seen more salford shirts than ive seen Sale shirts, ive not met anyone who goes to games yet or seen any presence at all in the town which reaily suprised me apart from The Brooklands pub and the Little bee which both have Sale Memoria in so for me its fair game to advertise our games in local chippys / shops if Sale do end up moving to salford in the future.
We will see i surpose but it does mean EVERYONE involved at salford city reds both players, staff and fans will need to up their game if we are to keep Sale honest and in their place'"
I agree with much of what you say, although I won't say Wilky's lining his own pockets because I got dumped as teenager, but he clearly isn't setting our managers the right targets/agendas. I might not be losing hope if someone came out and said we'll improve the speed of our defensive line, then we'll start coming from deep and hitting the ball at pace.
Over the years we've got by on some good attacking play in the backs, but in nearly twenty years the closest we've come to competing over the course of a season is 97 and 06. Both seasons our form tailed off, and were followed by poor seasons after that. Granted injuries played their part. To be competitive, over an entire season, no team can rely on the backs alone. Certainly when you look at the team of 06, what they did well was drive the ball in at pace and get a quick play the ball. Exactly what Cas did to us last Saturday, and Les Cats in our last game at the Willows.
It's all about the pace we play at, there were time under Parish where the tempo of our play was good. If he wasn't barking mad maybe he'd still be in post, but he seemed to understand where the club was going wrong. Unfortunately, we'll never know if he was capable of taking the club forward.
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