Ave it -come for that drink - Salesharks won't be taking over and I can explain why.

A few points from your response

1/Exactly and thats what pi$$es me off as well.

2/You really are matching all the sterotypes aren't you



3/Ever heard of The Lowry ?
The other is the Salford Arts Theatre.
There were a lot more at one stage but unfortuntely they have closed down, probably due to the fact that Common Salford folk dont understand that sort of thing


As for Amateur there are plenty, I wont list them but just google it and you will find them.

4/Its not a huge interest although I do go to the theatre ocassionally and yes as you can see I do know them

If you had taken a minute to even look into what we have in Salford and not just look at the fact we have a Stadium then I might have taken you a bit more seriously.
You never know you might even like what you see.

Look no further than the BBC for proof of that!!!!!

Dirty old town,written by Ewan Maccoll, Salford lad,one line written,Smelled the smoke on the Salford wind, the song was written in reference to SALFORD and the angry young men,anything else you leeches want to take or try to take away from us,like our game or maybe even the ground we play in.Drink with you lot,yeah right.

Shark J writes a constructive post.
I've been a Salford supporter for 50 years,born and bred in Salford, but I went a few times to watch Sale at Heywood Road.
Supporters were same as us really,just reflecting a different catchment area.
It's a done deal so we should approach it positively.
The glass is half full

Do you scream yourself to sleep every night?

Yeah, singing dirty old town and if that does`nt work matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs,and if that does`nt work i read your posts,that always does the trick.

Prestwich

Just why is liking theatre reinforcing stereotypes? I work in one.

Are you suggesting the league supporters are incapable of liking theatre?

And I'm not really sure why it's an offence in not knowing that salford has a football club. I'm sure that there are a large number of things which i don't know about Salford - and everywhere else for that matter, whether I live there or not.

You suggest that I should have found out whether Salford has a football team? Why?

Should I also find out if they have a pool club, a synchronised swimming club, a bar billiards club, a hockey club, a crown green bowls club - none of which I am ever likely to use?

And where have I ever said or implied that I dislike what I see in Salford? I've worked there, and I go there a fair bit even though now retired. I don't dislike any of it.

Hang about wasn't it only in the 1980's when Rugby Union were still banning players from their sport for life if they had played rugby league?

Taken from the Official Twickers site

[uAmateurism in rugby football (after the great split of 1895)[/u
Rugby union would officially remain an amateur sport for the next 100 years.

The union authorities placed severe sanctions on associations with rugby league. Even playing an amateur rugby league game was sufficient to receive a ban from rugby union.

Union players who went to play professional league were banned for life, even from attending rugby union matches as supporters.

Payment for expenses was often permitted, however. The ‘amateur’ 1908 Australian rugby union tourists to the British Isles received payment of 21 shillings a week.

This was more than twice the amount that players on the following season's ‘professional’ Great Britain rugby league tour of Australia received as weekly wages!

Ave It,i had a young lad playing for me when i was coaching a local amateur league team who was threatened by his headmaster that if he carried on playing league in his free time,he would be banned from taking part in any sport at his school,footbball? ok,basketball? ok just not Rugby league as they played union at their school.That was in the late 90s.The stories go on and on about their goings on,but now its all forgotten,well it ai`nt in my eyes.