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| Quote TheButcher="TheButcher"While I don't disagree with everything you've said, I do need to correct you about Salford. He's been doing a lot of work around the local community. Bringing in as many local amateur Clubs as possible, supporting them with regular training sessions taken by Salford Players. Getting them in on open days to attract more youngsters to play the amateur game. He's opening a retail shop in the Lowery Centre where people can buy merchandise and buy and collect game tickets. He's thrown up billboards advertising the Club and the new season. He's signing-up as much young talent as he can do build the academy side of things. He just finished promoting the Alan Henning memorial game where all the proceeds went to Alan's Family, further engaging the community on an issue that affected many locals. He's in the process of building Swinton its own ground to strengthen the game in the local area and allow the RL Clubs to be part of their local communities again. He just brokered a very considerable deal for Under Armor to provide kit and merchandise to the Club. Plus many many other things that get ignored or not seen by the wider RL community.
The reason why?
Because Salford needs growing from the bottom up in all areas. Something other fans like to harp on about but take little time to find out the realities. All they see is the ins and outs of the squad and not what's going on in reality. Salford has never been so in the public eye, so I'm not sure that accusing him of not promoting or highlighting the Club is actually correct.
I'm no Marwan fanboy. I think he could do some things better, but the caricature Marwan painted by people who for whatever reason don't like him, is far from the reality.'"
Very well said about what he's doing in the community as a whole. The Red Devils were a rudderless ship until The Doc came along.
Its not happening as fast as some people would like, but in the end the Red Devils will be a force in Rugby League again.
The Doc is doing a great job for Salford RLFC and this will spill over to the rest of Rugby League in the area and beyond.
BELIEVE.
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| Quote number 6="number 6"Is it april the 1st?
Would devalue our own competitio'"
It's already devalued. The best players developed in recent years are playing RU or in the NRL.
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| Quote casben="casben"I think the enthusiasm is good for the game but i personally see problems with this idea. the main one being for me is: - Who would support the team? which fans would want to travel up and down the UKJ for home games and never get to go to an away game (unless you were loaded) Each game played would have no atmosphere there would either be all home or all away fans depending on where the game is played. That affects the players too having just been to JP's testimonial at Headingley yesterday one of the reasons he said he loved playing at Leeds and stayed there so long was the atmosphere at Headingley, this was seconded by Matt Adamson and Robbie Paul during a speech at the pre-game legends meal.'"
Clearly this is just one of the key reasons why this idea will not work.
As I understand it, the team would play their nomadic "home" games in 1 block (in places such as Manchester, London, Dubai, Vegas) then travel on to Aus for the end of the season. So you would have 3 or 4 months of a home game every week, where you are expecting new fans of the game to come and fill a stadium in a new city for up to 16 weeks in a row.
Even if they manage to build a base in 1 city (e.g. London) and build a support base over 16 weeks they would then go 8 months without another home game, and have to do it all again from scratch the following year.
To then take games to Dubai and Vegas would require a marketing budget running into hundreds of millions to get anywhere near a decent crowd.
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| Quote Mike Oxlong="Mike Oxlong"Limelight is all this guy cares about! Sooner he disappears the better!'"
Better for who, exactly.
Why do you want rid of anybody who is prepared to invest substantial cash into the sport of RL?
Ok, he was over optimistic about Salford's short term prospects but, apart from that, at least he has some new ideas.
Some of them are far fetched and others need work but, he is without doubt, good for the game.
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| Love the idea. But would see all the best players being poached for this team. Not great for super league
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| Marwan will have to carry it through on his own if it's to happen. Worryingly, I think this would still apply even if he'd come up with a much better idea.
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| I think it's a daft idea that only devalues SL and RL as a whole.
I also think it's unworkable.
I'd far rather any money that would be put into this were put into RL in this country, even if that's just Koukash's own money going purely into Salford.
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| Gary Hetherington slaughtered the idea on Radio Leeds last night (Tues). No love lost there. 
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| A couple of French franchises in the nrl would be better for the sport
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| Quote j.c="j.c"A couple of French franchises in the nrl would be better for the sport'"
Nope.....a sustainable professional French competition would be better
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Nope.....a sustainable professional French competition would be better'"
That would be my preference as well, but its not going to happen anytime soon.
If someone is prepared to throw millions around on nrl franchises then at the moment helping France out sound like a better idea to me
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| He's just been on North West Tonight. We may not all agree with everything he comes out with but you can't knock his comittment.
"Rugby League is the greatest of sports and I'm absolutely honoured to own a club".
A few more like him please.
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