Quote ="Shark J"I'm not sure I understand the point about Wythenshawe here. Because it's a poor area, people should support Salford? Seems like you're putting Salford down there.
Wythenshawe is a Football area. It's a 49/49 split in favour of United and City and then the other 2%......Sale. I know this, being a Wythenshawe Sale fan. Lots of Wythenshawe folk get on my coach from Brooklands station to Salford City Stadium. Wythenshawe is nowhere near Salford, however part of Wythenshawe and Sale share the same boundaries. Brooklands, where Sale FC play (Heywood Road - where Salford U16s or something play) is in both Wythenshawe and Sale. Wythenshawe and Sale are also in the same boundaries when it comes to voting and stuff. We're just Sale's poorer Cousin. A sign was recently put up saying "Welcome To Brooklands, Wythenshawe" on Altrincham Road. That's sure to p!ss off those folk trying to sell their fancy houses on Brooklands Road.
In fact, Heald Green residents recently voted to get a sign taken down at their train station as it had Wythenshawe Town Centre on the platform signs. A few years ago Northenden folk were outraged because of the same thing. A sign said "Welcome To Northenden, Wythenshawe". That one was a bit odd as it's actually in Wythenshawe. They'd rather they were associated with neighbouring Didsbury.
So I'm not sure you'd want your club associated with here. You'd get looked down on more than you would for attending a Sale game
Speaking of which - saw 2 lads with Salford City Reds shirts at the last game of ours. Heroes in my eyes. No doubt they got a kicking when they left the ground though.
Before I get a telling off for a geography lesson, I was just confused as to why an area 10 miles away would be targeted as a Salford City Reds area. Most people in Wythenshawe wouldn't even know what Rugby is. In fact, they wouldn't know what Football was outside of the Premier League. You never saw a blue shirt around here for years and now City have won the league they wear nothing but the things, even if it's raining. Whenever I get a taxi to the station, the taxi driver never knows who Sale or Salford are. They only start to know what I'm talking about when I tell them it's that new ground off the motorway.
Edit - I understand what you meant. A cheaper alternative. It's a good point but then with 75000 people, in theory Wythenshawe Town or Altrincham FC would be getting some of their money every week. They don't though. That's what I was getting at with the Premier League thing.
Edit 2 - I assure you I don't say "folk" that often in real life
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Agree with most of you comments,i m o,you really have to be brought up in whichever code you end up watching.be it through your parents,mates or more importantly through the school you attend which play that game you prefer.also tv is a massive influence,be it with the challenge cup and your local team being involved or that crap served up every year called the six nations which i might add gets more publicity than even football.My love of RL began with my old feller taking me to the willows to watch the likes of Harry Council,Charlie Bott ,Jack Brennan,Paul Murphy,and the famous Ernie Critchley the willows manager.The team was crap,The likes of Swinton were then the big boys,and what a team that was,half time at the willows the players would walk around the ground with a blanket for you to throw your coppers in i suppose to pay them for their efforts,myu mates and i used to follow behind and pick up the halfpennies and pennies that had missed the blanket.Then came along you know who and changed our club into the finest most exciting team i have ever witnessed,and then along came you know who,them days will never return for a multitude of reasons but in my eyes the biggest one is moving from the old lady,that was criminal,to deny the fathers and sons and daughters walking to our yes our beloved Willows on a Friday night or even a Sunday afternoon to a desolate stadium that is`nt our home.I ask one question,would the chairman be looking to sell if his baby looked like succeding.In my eyes he sold Salford for the corporate dollar.
Speaking of which - saw 2 lads with Salford City Reds shirts at the last game of ours. Heroes in my eyes. No doubt they got a kicking when they left the ground though.
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