To start my post I'm gonna say that I'm not 'for' or 'against' sale sharks moving in, up to now all I've heard that its gonna cut our costs which can only be a good thing! But I've also heard that sale moving in us gonna be the end of salford, all I ask is how? I don't know what sale did to Stockport county that was so bad, if Stockport county were doing so good before sale moved in why would they of sold them there stadium?

But like I said at the start of my post, I'm not for or against, so could someone please clarify why it is so bad that sale have moved in, I've asked a few salford fans at games who are against it already but none have been able to answer it!

Stockport fanzine reaction to Sale moving to Barton:

How??

We're still paying the same amount of rent with or without Sale. Tarry has already said it won't make any difference to us financially.

One thing that has always annoyed me is the promotion of the club. On the BBC there have been several articles about Sale and one thing is the constant sniping at the ridiculous 8000 attendance figure, whatever this figure signifies Cap or Break Even. Instead of being ale to be positive about the % average increase in crowds against what we had at the Willows all we get is "dissapointing" , below the figure they expected etc.
It may be a small thing to some but it impacts on the perception of the Club to the wider world and at the moment the impression we are giving from this and Tarrys comments about Sales moving is good because it reduces costs is of a club in turmoil whose move has not worked.
Obviously the article has links to several websites, bar ours.
I`m more worried about the long term future of the club than ever even had we not got a Franchise, i only hope i`m wrong.

See you all at Hudds !

There is 20 pages of reasons to wade through on here mate.

Gutted, what worries me is people around the area of the stadium who haven't been yet will start going watching Sale regularly I know Eccles RU is nearby and has quite a lot of members (some of my mates play for them as well) they'll definitely be going Sale I think over time it will eventually become their ground.

I'd give it a few months before people refer to it as 'Sale Sharks ground' the passer by probably won't know we play there, someone in the pub last night when the story was on sky sports news said it was 'Salford City FC's new ground'

and that's Salfordians for you.

Got a horrible feeling this is the beginning of the end for us, whether it be some stupid merger or 'super club' under the Manchester moniker or us just being booted out and ending up back in the lower leagues and ending up like Swinton.

I agree however the 8000 figure came from Salford openly quoting it in the press, meaning rightly or wrongly that it is now used to compare our crowds against by the media.

Quote irlamreddave="irlamreddave"if Stockport county were doing so good before sale moved in why would they of sold them there stadium?'" The idea was to give both clubs more stability, they could work together, share marketing ideas and so on. Stockport were a league club when Sale moved in and doing alright - now they're a non-league club who've had to cut a heck of a lot of cloth in order to survive, even to the point where they may have to move out of Edgeley Park themselves. This article was written in 2009, when things were really starting to go downhill for Stockport: www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 70857.html This bit being standing out for me: "But what Kennedy doesn't seem to understand is that among County's many, many problems, its biggest is its association with Sale Sharks. County's identity is being eaten away by that association. The club is losing its soul."

Quote irlamreddave="irlamreddave"if Stockport county were doing so good before sale moved in why would they of sold them there stadium?'" The idea was to give both clubs more stability, they could work together, share marketing ideas and so on. Stockport were a league club when Sale moved in and doing alright - now they're a non-league club who've had to cut a heck of a lot of cloth in order to survive, even to the point where they may have to move out of Edgeley Park themselves. This article was written in 2009, when things were really starting to go downhill for Stockport: www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 70857.html This bit being standing out for me: "But what Kennedy doesn't seem to understand is that among County's many, many problems, its biggest is its association with Sale Sharks. County's identity is being eaten away by that association. The club is losing its soul."

Without going into great detail I think what most Salford fans are worried about is a more professional outfit coming in and attracting bigger crowds/publicity etc and basically reducing Salford and rugby league to a second class operation.

OK I'll change it to - 'There is very little interest in RL in Salford' I'm not so sure you could argue against it mate.

Well at least thats a bit of good news.