Obviously nothing is confirmed and I wouldn't blame the club or in fact sale as neither have done anything wrong but.

If they do try to move it it's up to Salford to show us they won't roll over and have there belly tickled. I fear it could be one belly tickle to far.

Feel sorry for your fans. Build a new stadium then (as is presumed) not allowed to play in it!

It would have been our first visit to the ground as well.

Surely the change of venue and been on tv will distract some fans from going. I wonder who will compensate Salford for that (and we all know the answer...)

I can't see why the date of the game has to change. I could see why if both our game and the bulls game kicked off together, but not now.

How about a 10pm ko on Friday Night?

If the game is moved away from your home ground, it’s an outrage.

Does this mean the Union lot take priority when the paymaster plays the tune?

This isn't about Sale,at all.
Good luck to them.
But ,for the RFL/Sky to switch to our game,change the date knowing that there is an existing televised game at our stadium,is scandalous.
All they needed to do was avoid our fixture and avoid embarrassment and disastrous PR.
We will look back at this,smile,and say that was the nadir.

Leigh???

If you can't play on your own ground, you should forfeit the game...well, ok the game game should be at Wakey.

We can play at our own ground on the original date.
The people changing the date are the ones causing the embarrassment .

I don't know whether it's the Stadium management's fault or the Union bods who decide the fixtures but surely the sensible option would have been to have Sale playing away when we are at home to avoid any clashes. Not rocket science.

We weren't meant to be at home, though. That's the point. This issue isn't actually down to Sale, they scheduled their fixtures around ours. Sky have suddenly decided, five days before the fixture, to move it to another date. Sod all this "Sky pay us good money so we do as they say" nonsense, this just shows the utter contempt they have for match going supporters. Do they not realise that some people may already have other plans for that day? Do they think people have nothing in their lives but rugby league? Not that it matters, they only care about the 'product' for television audiences. Awful.

They've made a mockery of professional football (but the Premier League is the greatest league in the world and people all over the globe tune in, so who cares if people have to travel from Manchester to Southampton on a Tuesday night) and they're well on the way to doing the same to rugby league. Regardless of where the game is played, if it's not on Friday night, I reckon I've already watched my last Salford game of the season. Thanks a lot, Sky.

was really looking forward to coming to see the new stadium as I don't tend to get to many away games but was going to make sure we got to this one play offs or not.
can they not delay the kick off time as its not like your a million miles away from Wakefield is it where the majority of fans will come from

I think there is a case compensation, from Sale and Sky Sports for this ridiculous state of affairs. I was really looking forward to checking out your new ground too. Oh well, Leigh it is then.

This sort of thing only ever seems to happen to Salford.

I don't think its that simple? A complete change to the pitch markings would be required, the possibility of a full house for Sale 10,000+ leaving the ground and around 5000+ RL fans arriving would be a logistical nightmare, the corporate hospitality of around 700 Sale supporters being asked to leave early and another say 400+ RL corporate hospitality supporters arriving would be impossible for the stadium company to manage, especially with such short notice, the change over of crew from ESPN to Sky? All sounds impossible to me

I know people are slagging Sale here, but they have done nothing wrong. I dont see how Sky can change a game when they have no venue for it. Sale have fit their fixtures around ours and have the stadium we rent too, booked for Saturday.

We should play Friday night and if SKY want to broadcast it, they should move their current Friday game to another day.

Asking us to go to Leigh or even move to Saturday at such short notice is totally unfair and unrealistic.

If Sky can start to dictate fixtures and venues, god knows what the future holds.

Can we get this clear once again this has nothing to do with sale in fact they moved their fixture to Saturday to avoid a clash with salford the only people responsible are sky tv.
Also notice the other negative media outlet radio manc have used twitter to say it's because of sale

Sorry to hear of this farce, it really is rough on you guys (and gals). We were looking forward to checking out your new place as well.

Irrespective of the whys and wherefores, let's hope it is a cracking game for us all to enjoy.

My sympathy again, you should have home advantage but due to Sky's scheduling you are denied it.

Whilst this may not be the club / stadium company’s fault it is a massive wakeup call as to the actual position we are in as a club. We no longer have an identity a place we can call “home”. The moral of the fans and the relationship between the fans and club is at breaking point if this fixture goes ahead at Leigh for a lot of people it will be the finally nail in the coffin. Playing home games at Leigh regardless of who’s fault it is a true kick in the teeth for fans.

The club however only have themselves to blame for the way the fans are feeling now. Time after time they fail to produce where it matters both on the field and off the field. They need to pull off a miracle in the off season if they want to get fans back on side, however no matter what they do I don’t believe it will be enough, promise after promise , idea after idea , and every time us the fans gets let down. People have really now had enough. We are at the moment on a shoestring budget with all out best players leaving and if/when in the off season fans of years are not renewing season tickets what sort of position does that leave us in for next season and so on, this has the potential to be a major disaster for the club and on what is an already rolling snowball I feel if the fixture at Leigh is confirmed this snowball will get bigger and faster in the off season when people don’t renew.

This season was one the club had to get right in order to generate interest at the new stadium, they have yet again failed miserably and almost everything has gone wrong that could of.

The club said season tickets info for next year will be available for next year at the last game. Yet again it is not going to happen and playing at Leigh you are going to lose around a potential at 2,500 Salford fans who would have been there at Barton, great. We can’t afford to be letting potential customers slip through our grasp like this.

The only way out of this for is new owners and fast. I honestly fear for the clubs future however most of the problems have been foreseeable and could of in many cases been avoided had Salford of acted in the way they should of.

Familiar rant but straying from the point,mainly.
I can't see this is Salford or Sale's fault.
We are told by the RFL and Sky when we play.
That's the price of full time rugby league supported financially by TV.
It needed common sense at those bodies to avoid changing the date at short notice when the home ground was not available.
Stupid decision but,for once,I can't see it's the club or stadium firms fault

Hi Salford fans. I would like to share so information that I've just posted on the Wakefield board just now.

Been doing some research and I can confirm the following nearest boozers for the match:

Thomas Burke (Wetherspoons), 20A Leigh Road
The Goose, junction of St Helens Road and King Street
The Hilton Arms, Twist Lane (behind the car park and ground)
The Britannia, St Helens Road - this is the nearest one from the ground.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

You must of missed the point in his post where he said it wasn't Sale or Salford's fault.

why can't Sky move the Wigan Saints game instead?

The Britannia is shut these days, so the nearest one is now The Centurion which is just over the canal, 5 minutes walk from the ground. Tons of pubs in the town centre as I'm sure plenty of Salford fans will already be aware!

Maybe because they've sold something like 17000 tickets already. And the clue's in the name really, Wigan-Saints.

Thanks for letting me know about the Brittania.

As I've been saying to others Walshy we can't blame sky, Sale or the Stadium company. We have signed a contract with Sky as have every other super league club allowing them to move games to when they want. They have done this every season since super league started, they want the most important games on at this time of the year and who can blame them? Its Salford who should be held responsible for this if we had our own stadium as promised all them years ago we wouldn't be in this mess now and wouldn't have to share a ground. It all goes back to poor management by the powers that be who have put is in this situation.