Do fan's think Salford should be doing what crucaders are, by signing a "big name" player, Gareth Thomas, to attract fans down to the Willow's.
As just been discussed on radio RL hour, its putting them in the headlines + it could bring 1000 extra fans in to the games.
Not saying someone that age, he is 35, but someone of that calibre. Maybe a "pay as he plays" contract.
I think JW needs to go out on a limb, know he doesnt like to do that, but what goes on on the pitch effects who comes through the turnstiles, & everything is very flat at the moment at the Willow's.
Need to speculate to accumalate at this time, we have got no characters at/in the team, no one who's name raises eyebrows & exites fans to come to the game, some one who lifts the team just by being on the pitch.
Think its a decision needs to be taken & quickly as the rot is starting to stick.

Do fan's think Salford should be doing what crucaders are, by signing a "big name" player, Gareth Thomas, to attract fans down to the Willow's.
As just been discussed on radio RL hour, its putting them in the headlines + it could bring 1000 extra fans in to the games.
Not saying someone that age, he is 35, but someone of that calibre. Maybe a "pay as he plays" contract.
I think JW needs to go out on a limb, know he doesnt like to do that, but what goes on on the pitch effects who comes through the turnstiles, & everything is very flat at the moment at the Willow's.
We need a massive front row prop who will run through brick walls for us.
Need to speculate to accumalate at this time, we have got no characters at/in the team, no one who's name raises eyebrows & exites fans to come to the game, some one who lifts the team just by being on the pitch.
Think its a decision needs to be taken & quickly as the rot is starting to stick.

great idea,but sadly for us about 3 years too late .we should have done this after we got into the playoffs for the first time,kept the momentum going.Sadly we just plodded along and relegation followed

Not a bad idea Shirl but who could we sign???

lets see .........who would get the fans flooding through the gates ..........................the cheeky girls on at half time .....nooooo......................John Barryman & Dale Winton playin second row ....i dont think so.........why not half price or FREE tickets for the catalan game now that might work........or is that not just a good marketing idea

Thought the idea was to do away with the Willows Retirement Home concept.

Who would want to come and where will the money come from to sign such a high profile name we aint exactly an exiting project now are we? I would love to see big names but this will never happen we dont get the gates to raise the kind of money and a big named player would want a club with the chance of sucsess behind them and we dont have that.

What may work for the Crusaders may not apply to Salford. A big name Welsh rugby union is instantly recognisable to the Welsh public. It will create lots of publicity in the media and attract new supporters.

Who would the Salford (and Greater Manchester) public view as a big name signing? If we are talking about attracting fans to our games who have only a passing interest in Salford then it has to be a high profile England RU player and there is no way we could afford the wages and even less possibility that he will prove to be value for money. We would be talking about someone like Johnny Wilkinson. He wouldnt make a massive difference to the teams performance and interest would soon die down if we continued to lose games!

The Crusaders squad this season has been underestimated. There are some quality Australians in their and they have a very good squad. Gareth Thomas generates more interest and provides more of a Welsh feel in addition to their young squad players.

The only big name person JW should have brought in was a new coach and assistant.
A big name player would not help because McRae would drag him down to his method of playing
The dour rugby the team play now is driving the fans away.
We are floundering at the base of RL without a foreseeable future.
All hopes seem to rest on the new stadium but that wont save us if we continue to get 3K crowds and continue to lose.
JW should have had the guts to get rid of our coaching staff when he had the chance in the winter.

There are no famous RL players these days so there's nobody we could sign. Even if we signed Billy Slater or Greg Inglis most people in Salford would have no idea who they are.

Yes, it would have to be a household rugby union player and they dont come cheap! This highlights the struggle we have as a club in that the Crusaders have more viable options to generate interest. We would get an extra couple of thousand if we had Man Utd Under 10's playing as a curtain raiser or if we put Gary Neville on the wing for a super league game. In fact that would pull in the crowds, watch Neville get smashed

It's an expensive publicity stunt that grabs a few headlines but won't bring big numbers through the turnstiles in the medium to long term.

We don't have the money to fund such a signing and even if we did, I wouldn't trust us to sign anyone other than a money grabbing crock.

Big name signing will not work, winning matches might help along with some positive marketing of the club! Salford who?

As I said in another thread if we'd have had a quality old head type scrum half last week against Bradford I think we'd have had a chance of winning. I am not as up on the NRL as I was pre tinker TV but would think there has to be a 34/35 yr old quality Aussie for a 2 yr contract who can win us some games and help Ratchford develop into the player we all have the sneeking suspision we think he will be. If that isnt possible I would still like to see a Cartwrightesque type siging in the front row.

Mozza?

That might get the crowds (or at least the interest levels) up.

Not a chance in hell that it'd happen though.