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Manchester Rangers released this club statement recently:
https://www.manchesterrangers.co.uk/club-statement-3/
Manchester wanted to become a professional club up the leagues. The board secured proper funding from serious backers, they secured a move to the 6500 capacity Manchester Regional Arena next to City’s Etihad Stadium on the same site where the RFL will be moving to soon.
Manchester do a lot of good work in the local community and work with Manchester University, local schools and local clubs East Manchester Rangers and Belle Vue Bees; all spreading the rugby league word across the city.
Manchester were pulling in crowds 300+ in the fifth tier, with a crowd of 358 against Bury. If this club could have had a few sustained decades under its belt as a professional club, what crowds they could have drawn?
Everything was geared for this club to become a professional club. A club that once won a Championship and two Challenge Cups (and were runners-up twice too)!
Only two years ago they were on BBC Radio talking about their long term aims to become a top club.
However, very strangely, the RFL made it clear that it had no desire for Manchester to join the elite. They were not interested in giving Manchester a professional license. So the financial backers have left (no point in them being there if they’re just going to be a club in the NWML) and the club have withdrawn from the league for the rest of this season while they get themselves sorted out behind the scenes and will be back possibly next season.
I don’t know if that will still be at the MRA or whether they now have to find a new home.
But what a missed opportunity by the RFL! |
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Manchester Rangers released this club statement recently:
https://www.manchesterrangers.co.uk/club-statement-3/
Manchester wanted to become a professional club up the leagues. The board secured proper funding from serious backers, they secured a move to the 6500 capacity Manchester Regional Arena next to City’s Etihad Stadium on the same site where the RFL will be moving to soon.
Manchester do a lot of good work in the local community and work with Manchester University, local schools and local clubs East Manchester Rangers and Belle Vue Bees; all spreading the rugby league word across the city.
Manchester were pulling in crowds 300+ in the fifth tier, with a crowd of 358 against Bury. If this club could have had a few sustained decades under its belt as a professional club, what crowds they could have drawn?
Everything was geared for this club to become a professional club. A club that once won a Championship and two Challenge Cups (and were runners-up twice too)!
Only two years ago they were on BBC Radio talking about their long term aims to become a top club.
However, very strangely, the RFL made it clear that it had no desire for Manchester to join the elite. They were not interested in giving Manchester a professional license. So the financial backers have left (no point in them being there if they’re just going to be a club in the NWML) and the club have withdrawn from the league for the rest of this season while they get themselves sorted out behind the scenes and will be back possibly next season.
I don’t know if that will still be at the MRA or whether they now have to find a new home.
But what a missed opportunity by the RFL! | |
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Has there been any official feedback from the RFL released?
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Manchester is in the wrong country.
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rlf had no desire for them to join the league! clearly seen as a threat to salford!
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There’s what 4? other clubs within 5-10 miles of them.
Wasn’t it a decision made by the clubs?
It was certainly signed off by the clubs to allow Ottawa to take Hemel’s licence.
They’d spent about half a mil whilst just being an amateur club.
Did they have proper plans for how they would meet their increased costs and to get crowds in?
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Mancunians RL have also had struggles over the years. They wanted to join Championship 1 as it was at one stage, it never materialised.
They had two teams at one stage, the first team gaining promotion to the North West Premier of the Conference.
But no interest from the RFL in their long term aims and I don’t think they even have a men’s team anymore.
Now I think they just have Junior training sessions at weekends and work with local schools, coaching kids, during the week.
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| Quote: reffy "Manchester is in the wrong country.'"
Agreed. |
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Remind me how many football teams London has, and Birmimgham.
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Swinton week become Manchester Lions in the next few years.
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And we wonder why the game is dying on its in this country. People willing to throw money at it, and it’s no, let’s protect the clubs that are failing.
Football thrives by having a strong and wide pyramid below the premier league, letting the cream rise to the top, whilst we do our best to put them out of business and make the mediocre a closed shop.
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| Quote: Him "There’s what 4? other clubs within 5-10 miles of them.
Wasn’t it a decision made by the clubs?
It was certainly signed off by the clubs to allow Ottawa to take Hemel’s licence.
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This was my initial thought. Before using Red Hall as lightening rod, I'd be interested to see what say the clubs had in this.
It was Hunslet that vetod Bramley's application to play their initial games at Morley because they didn't want the competition on their doorstep, and it was the then-NFP clubs that voted against promotion from the NCL (whilst at the same time demanding promotion for themselves to Super League). |
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| Quote: number 6 "rlf had no desire for them to join the league! clearly seen as a threat to salford!'"
Who are the rlf and why would Manchester Rangers be a threat to Salford? We've got very few fans but they're loyal.... anyone thinking they'd up and move sticks to support a rich club down the road is either naive or just downright stupid!  |
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| Quote: SaleSlim "Who are the rlf and why would Manchester Rangers be a threat to Salford? We've got very few fans but they're loyal.... anyone thinking they'd up and move sticks to support a rich club down the road is either naive or just downright stupid! ![]()
Didn’t your crowds increase when a rich backer took over then deteriorated when he left?
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Quote: Willzay "Remind me how many football teams London has, and Birmimgham.'"
Greater Manchester has loads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... Manchester
Compared to other Northern cities and their surrounding areas. Liverpool/Merseyside, Leeds/West Yorkshire, Sheffield/South Yorkshire and Newcastle/the North East as a whole, none of them have the volume of football clubs that Manchester/Greater Manchester does.
Even the Birmingham/West Midlands (who have only two fewer clubs in levels 1-4) cannot boast the amount of clubs Manchester/Greater Manchester does at level 5-8.
Only London beats Manchester for football clubs.
It would be easily sustainable for the city for Manchester Rangers to have had a professional place up the leagues. |
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Quote: Willzay "Remind me how many football teams London has, and Birmimgham.'"
Greater Manchester has loads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... Manchester
Compared to other Northern cities and their surrounding areas. Liverpool/Merseyside, Leeds/West Yorkshire, Sheffield/South Yorkshire and Newcastle/the North East as a whole, none of them have the volume of football clubs that Manchester/Greater Manchester does.
Even the Birmingham/West Midlands (who have only two fewer clubs in levels 1-4) cannot boast the amount of clubs Manchester/Greater Manchester does at level 5-8.
Only London beats Manchester for football clubs.
It would be easily sustainable for the city for Manchester Rangers to have had a professional place up the leagues. | |
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