First game for Sale at Barton tonight. Early observations:

Salfords club shop has been emptied out and replaced with Sale merchandise.
The East stand is now known as the MBNA East Stand.
The North stand is now known as the BMI Healthcare North Stand.

Hopefully a few of them will decide to park on Brookhouse.

Saw a clip of them on Sky training on the astroturf.
Our badge on the stand was blacked out.
So much for this working together bull$hit

Sale playing in OUR ground tonight just about puts the cherry on the top of this week's cake doesn't it?

Just as a matter of interest , I went on the Sale Sharks site to see how much my seat in the West stand would cost for tonight`s game against Leinster.----------------£37 plus a fee for picking up at the ground!!!!!

£!5 in the standing though. Wonder if Salford will do something similar next year and reduce the standing price but maybe whack a couple of quid onto the cost of going in the seats.

Two for £14 on groupon which isn't bad value really.

I'd like to know what the difference in takings from the corporate, dining and on site beer sales is between us and Sale.

Went past the stadium on the way home from work, quite busy even at 5 o'clock. Painful to see really never gonna get use to this. These are dark days.

Are these names just for Sale games? Who has sold the sponsorship/gets the money? Were we just unable to find sponsors from our client base or does our lease not let us.

Have they physically covered the Reds badges on the stand?

Feels like a hostile takeover. Sad state of affairs.

Just been on the M60, went passed at 8pm. The traffic was horrendous, gridlocked back past Trafford Centre junction. The inside lane was not moving at all. Sale fans will be far from impressed, a look on their forum tomorrow will make interesting reading.

Would like to find out the crowd tonight, if the attendance is not near to capacity then I would love to see the traffic when there is a sell out!

Welcome to the wonderful Salford City Stadium, Sale RUFC



Would any company want to sponsor the stadium with all the problems and bad press it has created so far

That's not new. It took the shuttle bus about 20 minutes to get from the top of the bridge to the roundabout when we played Wigan in the pre-season friendly.

Im glad I dont have to make that journey. If the traffic is gridlocked on the M60 when the game is kicking off there must be lots of people missing kick off? Or is it the unfortunate residents of the one road in one road out district of Irlam & Cadishead that are kopping for most of the tailbacks.

Quote ="Iain"Are these names just for Sale games? Who has sold the sponsorship/gets the money? Were we just unable to find sponsors from our client base or does our lease not let us. Have they physically covered the Reds badges on the stand? '" Don't know the details just noticed it on the ticketline site, although there are no sponsors for the stands on our page which would suggest it will be just for Sale games? The reds logo was handily covered up when they had the tv cameras down at training the other day: img402.imageshack.us/img402/889/salemmw.jpg No idea if it was the same for tonights game.

Quote ="Iain"Are these names just for Sale games? Who has sold the sponsorship/gets the money? Were we just unable to find sponsors from our client base or does our lease not let us. Have they physically covered the Reds badges on the stand? '" Don't know the details just noticed it on the ticketline site, although there are no sponsors for the stands on our page which would suggest it will be just for Sale games? The reds logo was handily covered up when they had the tv cameras down at training the other day: img402.imageshack.us/img402/889/salemmw.jpg No idea if it was the same for tonights game.

Went over the Bridge tonight at about 9:15 pm.
Hardly any in the West stand.
Looked to me about the same attendance we got for our Wigan friendly.

Had to pick up my son from the ground as he works at the ticket Office.
The Salford City Reds sign was glowing brightly which I hope pi$$ed off the Sale fans.
OUR supporters bar was platered with Sale pictures and the club shop full of their merchandise.

Lots of sleeveless bubble coat, cord wearing, jumpers over the shoulders type of people around

Score at HT 3-3


Dont know full time as my son said he would rather stick pins in his eyes than watch that (have to agree)

Would alteration of the external illuminated signage of the stadium require planning permission?

Karlos13 you seem to forget that we are only leasing the stadium as are sale so at the end of day sale are renting like us so I would think they have just as much right to name stands. Also allowing them to use club shop and set there own prices. I might give watching sale a chance as I don't just follow rugby league I love sport in general even though rugby league is favourite. I am going off rugby league slowly as there dont seem to change and are ruining our good game the Rfl.

Where has the SharkJ post gone please mods?

Apparently there were over 5000 there last night, though we all know how accurate attendances at the new place are



Also, adult tickets in certain sections of the West stand for their next home game are £45. Bargain

I've no idea. It was there when I went to bed and it's not currently showing in the Trash Can (where deleted posts are retained for legal reasons).

5651 was the attendance according to Sale's website.

A bit of moaning :- www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,13469354

A bit of moaning :- www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,13469354

Read a few of their comments and thye are saying the same things we have been saying.

The most encourging thing is the call for Salford Reds merchandising to be sold at the same time as Sale. They don't want to make the same mistakes.

But in a more measured and reasonable tone than many on here can manage unfortunately

I deleted my post, don't worry, your mods didn't delete it.

I realised there were some unhappy people on here and didn't want to seem like a troll. For those who did read the message you'll know it was nothing against Salford, it was just feedback from last night.

To answer a few of your concerns - the supporters bar is going to have Salford or Sale memorabilia depending on who's playing. It is now going to have Salford shirts up until the night before we play Saracens.

As one of you have mentioned, whether all Sale or Salford fans like the other code or club, most of us want to work together. None of us want what happened with Stockport. If you go on our forum you won't see a single fan who wants to keep our shirts on the wall during your games. Most were actually pretty p!ssed off that it looked like they were up permanently.

Also - I think the same is going to happen with the sponsors in the stands. That's something I put in my deleted message. We did the same at Edgeley Park. Unfortunately Sale are obsessed with sponsorship and corporate fans. I say unfortunately, I suppose we wouldn't be able to get star names if we didn't have this income. As far as I am aware, having been to 2 Bury games and sat in the away end at Edgeley Park, none of the MBNA posters and what not were kept up. Stockport kept the historical names for the stands such as The Cheadle End, The Railway End whilst we called them The Printerland Stand and BMI Healthcare Stand.

I find it absolutely amazing that the Stadium Company appear to have learned little since our season started in that nothing has been done in the way of improving customer service,car parking,food outlets and their quality/quantity.

The vast majority, if not all the Sale fans have identified,as our fans did,everything that is required to give an enjoyable match day its a pity that the people who run the stadium refuse to listen to their customers.

With regards Salford City Reds our club should also take heed of what is being said by the Sale fans regarding, the club shop, bars and the provision of items showing that we are actually a Rugby League club with a long history as if we don't recognize it no one else will.

Pity we haven't come up with any historical, or even relevant, names for the stands really.