Quote: Marshy1 "Red, since the boundary changes took place in the 70's are you suggesting that everyone prior to that happening are now deceased who lived in the area of Barton?'"
ONS figures for 2011 tell us that around 56% of Salford residents are in the 0-40 age band. None of these people were alive when Swinton and Barton weren't part of Salford. Unless you're able to provide figures of greater granularity, I think we're going to have to assume that 56% of the residents of the Swinton and Barton districts of Salford have never known a time when they weren't part of Salford. It's over Marshy. Swinton is part of Salford. The hole within the greater whole.
Quote: Marshy1 "As for SL stadia I have been to all of them bar Catalan and it's fair to say Barton is the worst in my opinion.'"
Few of them are good, and I don't believe Barton is any worse than, say, the KC. It didn't feel worse when I sat in the car park at the KC earlier this year with the engine off watching a line of cars going nowhere for 20 minutes. That's why, normally, I don't park in stadium car parks.
Quote: Marshy1 "Public transport..are you suggesting special buses should be operated on match day and because they don't it affects the crowds, I doubt it and without checking this I don't think any other club expects buses to operate in this manor unless paid for by the club itself.'"
I'm suggesting nothing of the sort. What I'm saying is that any bus from anywhere in Salford will approach the stadium down the A57; a single carriageway road that becomes a car park when there's a decent crowd at the stadium. Even buses from the Swinton district of Salford - almost due north of the stadium - have to use this route, and I can appreciate why people might be put off by it.
Quote: Marshy1 "You seem to think I am digging at the Red evils'"
An easy assumption to make when you call us the 'Red evils'.
Quote: Marshy1 "
but communities is what made these clubs ....Wigan, Saint Helens and yes Swinton all originally owning stadia which the communities they represented could get to easily and what ever way you wish to look at it Salfords current home is a million miles away from that.'"
The community of Salford is the city of Salford, and the new stadium is within the city. You seem to be hankering for a time when people's entire lives were spent within a 100 yard radius of where they were born. That's Royston Vasey thinking. Things have moved on. A journey of 3.9 miles from the Willows to Barton shouldn't be a problem, but, unfortunately, it is at the moment, and the club haven't given people sufficient reason to make that journey. Not yet anyway.
