Quote: MarioRugby "I'm grateful to Koukash for saving us but this is stupid, he's taking some bad advice from Mr Vickers I suspect.
The premise of this plan is that people in Manchester are going to say "hey, look the Red Devils (hardly Salford anymore!) are playing near us, lets go and watch them its a great opportunity". When, in reality, Salford is hardly a million miles away anyway and if they were desperate to watch us then they would just make the short trip down to the A J Bell anyway. I doubt we'll attract any new fans through this and Salford is hardly a million miles away and I travel further to games than people in Manchester would have to in order to get to the AJ Bell anyway. Playing it at the small stadium near the Etihad is where were rumoured to be playing apparently - count me out!!
Call me a cynic, but I'd love our club to grow but this wont work and, to be honest. I hope it doesnt. I dont want any more of our games moved even further away from Salford and it's a kick in the teeth to regular fans!'"
I think the issue is, most people in East Manchester probably don't even know that Salford Red Devils exist. With the idea being that once they do, they'll realise Barton isn't a million miles away.
I don't think it's a kick in the teeth at all, we'd all travel as far as Barrow, Whitehaven, Hemel and London if we were drawn there in the CC so what's the difference in going 10 miles across Manchester?
It's a typical Salford fan attitude of "it wont work" and "I doubt we'll attract any new spectators doing this", doing nothing and staying at Barton hardly did anything for our 2,630 attendance vs Widnes (with a good following from the Vikings) this season did it?