warnings from rfl

Quote: GT "The Willows is not dreadful. Old, yes. In an area that's not the most salubrious (look it up), yes.

Crowds are poor because people are fed up with watching dull rugby and others are staying away because they feel the club has lied to them and is stringing along (I'll come back to this point later). We can pull in 6,000+ crowds, we've done it not so long ago, we can do it again. Crowds have improved this year. If we were challenging for the play offs and playing well, we could increase them further. Friday night games don't help, either, but they attract more corporate sponsorship that Sunday games, so that will come before the general wish of normal supporters. And £17 on the door, £15 in advance is too expensive as well. We know that, the club don't seem to take any notice.

On field results are poor? We've beaten St. Helens, Leeds, Bradford, Warrington and Hull. Those are good wins to my mind. OK, so we've struggled in other games we should have done better in, but that's all down to improvement. We've got another two years to improve, yes?

Telling blatant lies? (And this goes for the rest of you nuggest banging on about Salford's "lies".) Give over. Our new ground has undergone so many unforseen setbacks it's no wonder we've not had any real progress so far. Are you telling me Salford knew the recession was going to kick in? That Red City Developments would go bust? That Salford College would get screwed over in terms of funding? Did they buggery.

Peel Holdings will own the stadium. The stadium has to be built before they can progress with their other plans for the Barton area. They usually get what they want, one way or another. And until they, or Salford, turn around and say "no, sorry, everything's gone wrong, the stadium's not happening" then it's to be presumed that it will happen.

People have said franchising is about improving clubs and the game. We have made improvements this year, albeit small ones. Yet people have still decided to judge and condemn us before the first year of three is done. I don't know what you all expected within 12 months, miracles?'"

Celtic Crusaders have beaten Wigan and Bradford so what? The Willows is a dump, the facilities are abyssmal and to say the surrounding arean is not salubrious is an understatement, Beirut is more atttractive. How do you explain that a Champioship 1 side (York) had a higher gate than you did against Huddersfield? You must very naive, the claptrap served up by your club about this so called new ground has been regurgiated constantly for at leas 10 years now, and still no concrete evidence.