and here lies the problem with franchising.
A big deal was made of your impending move to a state of the arte facilility to attract the good folk of Manchester to SL, a sport they have avoided for over 100 years.
It stopped being about results, it became about peripherals.
Sport is about results, the best clubs generate cash to aid good results, the smaller teams have good periods and bad ones, let the cream rise etc
Scrap the smokescreen that is franchising, it has already failed, get back to P&R and create 2 divisions of FT RL and let clubs concentrate on entertaining fans and winning games.

what do you expect from a club that dont care about anything but them selfs they have never treated there supporters well and i said from day one that the stadium wont happen sack the board a clean slate is needed i am not going anymore the club is total crap and disrespect us at every turn i aint wasting my money any more

From a Widnes fan I just wanted to say not to get too disheartened..

The RL family understands you have a fantastic chairman at the helm and I'm certain that work will start before too long at your place. It may be the case that the stadium is scaled back a little but I'm sure it will happen.

To be honest in the meantime I don't see the problem with the Willows which I actually think is a cracking little ground. It generates a terrific atmosphere so you should enjoy that for the next year or two.

I would also like to say that in one regard I am happy to see some egg on the faces of the people at your club that were so quick to pour scorn on other clubs applications but not the Salford masses.
Best of luck from here on in with it and keep trucking.. Good luck with the rest of the season too.. I'm glad things have picked up.
Chris

Grow up!!!!

Get in the real world. You are in the current Non relegation league cos of promotion.

You will be thrown out in 2012 even if you finish in the top 6.

Time for your fans to start opposing this crazy franchising experiment which threatens the future of the game in this country.

The club doesnt deserve fans like you neil.

Wheres the queue starting for people wanting to put money into a business which constantly loses money? Mr Clague, Mr Watson & Mr Wilkinson for starters are to be commended wholeheartedly for keeping the club afloat thus far and comments like yours just do not deserve bringing to their notice.

Go and watch Swinton if you feel as bad as that about things. Thanks to these 3 Gentlemen and others for keeping Salford City Reds alive for us all to enjoy every week.

WELL SAID EARLY BATH
Some fans moan about everything at the club, probably when we won the 3 games on the trot, they went home with a strop on as they couldn't moan about something.

Well said and I feel the same way about my club and I hope you take on board what Ihave said about franchising.

with the hopes the we have another chance, I am genuinely concerned to hear the news on your stadium, I think the RFL should reassess the situation as far as new stadia for all clubs concerned, they could end up ripping the heart out of the game

You don't think they've already done that?

Whilst it might be frustating for us fans just think how John Wilkinson & Howard Clague etc are feeling with £ millions already invested in the project.
With the personalities involved you have to have faith that they will come through, after all JW et al haven`t let us down these last few years.

What people should remeber here is the Willows has been sold.Do people think our chairman would be so stupid as to sell the ground if a new one was not on the horizon ?
We have been waiting over 10 yrs for this,will another yr or two make a difference.

Fine, f*ck off, then. No doubt you'll come crawling back further down the line when things do go our way.

Is anyone really surprised that there's setbacks like this when the country, nay the world is in the middle of a big recession? It affects everyone. And until someone actually turns around and says "you know what, we're f*cked, the stadium's not happening. Sorry" then as far as I'm concerned it'll still happen eventually.

Salford fans. We'll whinge about anything. Hmm, that could be an idea for a new flag...

[iOh and I suppose the club will expect US, the long serving hard done fans to wave this heavy flag?? It's a disgrace. I want my stadium right now! *stamps feet and p*sses pants*[/i

I'm frequently staggered by the depth of ignorance some of my fellow 'supporters' portray.
An alternative banner: "We're loud, We're proud, We're 10% f*cking moron".

Ahh you mean the media and government generated "recession"?

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 083348.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 083348.stm

Until the club actually come up and say where not building the stadium you have to stop speculating and whining, and stop believing everything the idot balding pundits tell you, they've sold the ground, houses are going to be built on it and a health centre, so we will have our stadium, just hang fire be patient and let wilky do what he's good at, running our club, the only thing that has gone wrong is salford college is gonna miss out on a great opportunity to have a building next to our great stadium when it's built, we all have to put our fath in wilky' he hasnt let us down yet and he's first priority is this clubs future.

as i mentioned in my earlier post about the LSC, they know they f**ked, the CEO even resigned, at Bolton College we were lucky that we were already building from college funds. The next action is for the LSC to announce who are the next trawl of colleges to get the money, Salford should be pretty high up on this list, because it is an amalgamation of 3 colleges which saves money in the long run by getting rid of duplication so a new site is needed., The sports town down at Barton already has football, skiing and golf so a stadium is the natural progression.

You mean the one where thousands have lost their jobs,and I have had no pay rise and had my hours cut.
Yeh it is not a "recession" is it

from the MEN www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... m_college_

from the MEN www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... m_college_

This should be the big hint for Salford that the whole project needs to be formally postponed for at least two years until we are out of the recession. Then it can be built properly to something resembling the original specification.

To get out of recession you need to build big capital programmes, such as new sports stadia, Large Education facilities, roads, rail/tram links and new ports and airports, So start Building today and Salford can lead the world out of Recession.

Quote ="Bigpev"from the MEN www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... m_college_'" I love how lazy journalists still get the capacity wrong

Quote ="Bigpev"from the MEN www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... m_college_'" I love how lazy journalists still get the capacity wrong

Yes, that's the one. The one that's caused me to lose my f*cking job.

Still, it's not real, is it?

Why what is it actually meant to be? There have been so many false dawns and changes made that I have lost track!