Quote The optimist="The optimist"Never happen in my day...I surpose its the ever evolving face of salford city reds supporters different generations play by different rules I surpose.
If we are going to expand our support you can't guarantee the fans wont be middle aged shirt wearing jesterhat fans or Danny dyer lookerlikes with an a too cool for school attitude.
Remember in the shed we had a right of passage you had to earn your stripes over the years perhaps moving to Barton has changed this process'"
A right of passage? I stood in the shed since the age of 5 when I was first taken by my grandad back in 1992 I've never had to or thought you had to so called earn my stripes? Or do you mean to stand with the turkey boys that's what you had to do? I'm sorry but 20 or so groups of men who like to have a sing song arnt the be all and end all. At the end of the day it doesn't matter how long you've been going how much you spend at the game how you dress how you sing what ever! If you go out of your way to support Salford RLFC then that's all that matters.
And optimist don't you remember 1995/1996/1997 seasons with the whole Viking hats being worn and tune being played over the tannoy they even sold little drums with REDS on them and a good few got sold and used at games even to this day we sing the Vikings tune, what's the difference between a Viking helmet and a jester hat? In my opinion it just makes the atmosphere more family friendly and it's also good for the kids.
In the coming years if things go our way were going to have hopefully thousands more fans coming through the turnstyles and tbh I don't think they'll give a rats ass what ave it, the optimist,walshy and the rest of the shed members club think.