I thought the franchise was to change the way super league was not run by just the big clubs. Nothing as changed from the looks of players being tapped up by bigger clubs snapping up big players from Salford etc so it as created again a two reared league. I thought it was supposed to help sides keep playerss. Now we are at the big clubs get all best players and still get same sides winning it were is everything equal rugby league is getting boaring now there is no relegation and it was supposed to help clubs keep there better players so it will be same teams wining every year

Start producing your own players 1st. All players your losing are over seas or from other clubs.

why don't you support your local club?

Have a look at the U20s table then get back to us*. And learn the difference between "your" and "you're".

*Don't really get back to us.

And how many of your match day 17 on a regular basis have come through your system?? And there's a difference between them doing well in the under 20's and then stepping up to the 1st team. And I don't support Salford because I was raised a Wigan fan from my cousin playing from them and always found Salford fans to be very narrow minded and delusional about their own team compared to others.

Easy to be a Wigan fan isnt it.
Bet there's lots of cousins in your family isn't there, some a lot closer related than others.

Your last comment made me laugh, coming from a Wigan fan that is a classic.

Good and valid point this site is living proof.

I have literally no idea why you're here.

on the board or on the planet?

oh the irony of that post from you!

To return to the original post, and hopefully the glory-grabber has left, the purpose was never to stop "bigger" clubs from attaracting other players to them.
It was to stop small clubs buying big to get into SL and then collapse as funds are not available to continue this. It also was to force clubs to plan within financila realities. In this latter, it seems to be failing.

How many more kids play RL in places like Wigan and other hotbeds of the game compared to Salford? It’s a long tradition for Juniors in these parts to play Junior football and aspire to be the next Ryan Giggs rather than the next Sam Tompkins. Many of the kids in Manchester won’t even know who Sam Tompkins is. I actually saw Tompkins in a packed Trafford Centre a few months back and nobody knew who he was other than me. (A superstar of British Rugby League) It says it all.

If you consider the ratio between kids playing football and kids playing rugby I think it explains why. It's also one of the reasons we are way behind Australia and failing at International level. There are hundreds of junior football teams in these parts compared to only a handful of dedicated amateur rugby league clubs.

There is no quick and easy solution. It’s not just about attracting kids to play rugby league it’s about having the infrastructure in place with many dedicated people with the necessary skills to develop these youngsters. Furthermore how many great young athletes in these parts turn to junior football because they prefer playing in a team with their mates? How many of these juniors fail to make it in Football but would make outstanding rugby league players?

A question, how many experienced and commited junior RL coaches are there in Wigan? Bucket loads of them who live and breath for nothing else but RL. (Just like their parents and grandparents.) It's in the blood! It's a similar situation with coaches of Junior football in the Manchester area.

It easy to point blame but Salford and Manchester has a long tradition spanning decades of juniors and ‘as importantly hundreds of dedicated coaches’ who choose football before rugby.
I am sure that without football being so strong for years in these parts, Salford would probably have a squad of mainly local lads like Wigan.

Salford must have the biggest catchment area in RL with the least interest because football has been traditionally so strong. This is a fact not an excuse.



Maybe Wigan should 'start producing' more local, wigan based fans rather than pinching the few potential RL followers in Salford. Although on second thoughts they are more than welcome to people like you.

An Absolute Classic!

Fooking brilliant.

Tomkins not Tompkins ffs

JC - just a quick question related to your sig. - where is Denis Betts from then? Start worshipping your own!