I miss the willows, it had character none of this breeze block plastic seat e they knock out these days

There were so many inaccuracies it just blended in.

Salford getting 8k?? There is more chance of Warrington winning a grand final

Jog on LeBron you snivelling little turd.

5000 at wilderspool climbed fairly quickly to 11,000 over a few seasons at Halliwell Jones but it wasn't great success on the pitch..

Wire didn't get to a play off final until 2012 but had an 11,000 average crowd by 2005

It was the demographics, the rise and rise of soccer in Manchester........ and the move by Salford to a wasteland............against a fast growing Town with a top RL club as it's leading footy team.........

Because Warrington can still be paying his wages it just doesn't count against the cap anymore

I agree entirely with this, that 10K attendance was for the "occasion" only

Only 3,458 turned up at the penultimate game before that at the willows/weaste...........only 5,424 at the opening of the new Barton ground

In their great 2019 successful run to the grand final improving attendances only managed to peak at 5,393.......

Then weren't the coach and best players easily picked off?

I don't either maybe you were being "wound up"

I don't remember Salford being forced out, only the fact that they got an opportunity for a new stadium that Cas and Wakey didn't get.

They understandably took that opportunity of their own free will AFAIK. Sadly it did not work out

It remained to be seen whether Wakey moving to Newmarket outside the city and on waste ground along the motorway could also have been a big mistake??

Well it shows that you know very little.then Donnyman. Do some research about why we moved and educate yourself.

Out of interest what was your previous username on here? You've obviously been around on RLFans longer than 2 years so always interested to know which previous alias/es you got banned under (like LeBron, Jean etc)

There was pressure from the one-size-fits-all licensing criteria, which distorted priorities and to varying degrees and in different ways harmed several clubs. Those clubs still bear some of the responsibility but they did have the Sword of Damocles of losing their place in SL hanging over them - that isn’t how it turned out but it was very much how it was sold.

The three most important things about a RL stadium is firstly location, secondly, location. I'll leave you to work out the third.
The HJ is superbly located, easy access, abundant cheap/free and easy parking, bus/rail on its doorstep, surrounded by pubs/restaurants/takeaways. We are a minority sport and have to make it easy to attend. Yet in the early days there was talk of our new stadium being built in Limekiln, an out of town wasteland near Burtonwood services. 95% of speccies would need to drive or take 2 buses to get anywhere near it. Thank god we had people in charge to guide them.