on the plus side, bad stadiums are much more fun to visit

As a Salford fan, I guess I agree with you LF. Its been tits up from day one. We dont deserve to be in ESL.

On the grounds that the Willows isn't up to it? The stadium quality and capacity were two points on the criteria for a license, not the be all and end all as some would have you believe.

We mite end up with a smaller SL next time they award the places out cos some of these grounds that are in SL have need redelveloping for years and they have let them run down and its a shame that clubs in the chapionship or even C1 have better grounds/facilties than at least 5 SL clubs i feel sorry for fax,leigh and widnes.

memo to dickie lewis....................................believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

Forget all the other things Salford doesnt have....

In this day and age, if you don't have a stadium that's viable.....you're basically dead.


The stupid promises from those Running Salford over the last 10 years were a good laugh when they all started, but now, its a bit sad really.

Its ok the RFL love clubs with rubbish stadia now. Its easier that way. Wigan, Hull and Quins are getting booted out.

Rubbish! Hull and Quins are going nowhere...

The ideal situation, IMO, is if all three of the little clubs that are stadium deficient -- Salford, Wakey and Cas -- lose their licenses in 2012.

Then Salford are invited to reapply in 2014 in a merger application with Oldham and perhaps Swinton -- if they can guarantee then a stadium that is at least under constriuction -- as Manchester United Rugby League. All merged clubs retain their original identities in the Championship.

Wakefield and Castelford are invited to reapply as a merged franchise Calder United --- provided they have a stadium at least under construction by 2014. Wakey and Cas can retain their original identities in Championship clubs that function as feeders for Calder.

The the Super League will start to look like the first respectable rugby league competition to the entire British people for the first time in 113 years.

have you been on the oldham, swinton and salford boards to canvass opinion yet?

Not yet. I was planning to do that after I drink my cup of cocoa.

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