I know its a topic thats been covered before but I cant believe that some kind of commemorative game isnt being organised for the final game at your historic home.If as seems likely Catalan Dragons will be the final game at the Willows im sure it will be a great occasion but surely something with a little more imagination would be more fitting.As Swinton were your first opponents at the Willows surely it would be fitting if they were your last.Both sides could play in a special commerative strip similar to those worn in the very first game,these could be auctioned off for charity after the match and a limited number could be made available for fans.A number of past players could also take part in the game itself using masters rules whereby age dictates the level of contact involved.

great idea, our marketing dept wont do anything like this because its such a good idea, id like to say were crap on ideas ilke this but were not even that good !!!!!!!!!!!!

Just to expand on the above . . .

Why not give the Willows a massive send off after Catalan by having a special charity match v Swinton over Christmas with the gate money (less costs going to several local Salford charities that actively promote the event. It could be a celebration of rugby league in Salford over the past 100+ years. Make it £10 adults and £5 kids. Get all the other local amatuer sports clubs involved and ask every Salford celeb to attend the event. Get some celebs to have a footie match at half-time (Coronation Street cast etc) Perhaps ask Russel Watson and the BBC philomonic orchestra to do the pre-match entertainment? Get the schools involved also, why not do a draw on the pitch where a school can win £2000. (One entry in the draw for each kid from the school they attend, do the draw at half-time) Then have a big firework display at full-time.

Wouldn't it be great to see the place full to capacity with the money going to great causes in Salford? I'm sure the Salford Advertiser would fully support it and give it months of exposure leading up to the event. It would be great PR for the club and could also help to attract some new support.

If the capacity is 11,000 and the mix between adults and kids was say 50% that would bring in £82,500. I'm sure with some corporate sponsorship it could raise over 100K.

Great idea but what exactly is happening to The Willows when you vacate? Nobody seems to know for certain.Will they demolish the ground immediately?

"Russel Watson and the BBC philomonic orchestra" performing a special piece written by the Master of the Queen's Music (the music equivalent of the Poet Laureate) Max.

Its the willows m8

Max is a Salfordian, mate.

He is. Unfortunately his music is usually a little "challenging" to say the least.....

As is watching Salford , perfect partnership I think.

just as a point of interest, is there any possibility of the last game at the Willows not being our game V Les Catalans, and it actually involved Swinton involved in any play offs? How bad would that be for us...
Does anyone know what their division play off dates might be?

How about we give Paul Highton the testimonial he never got?

It was up to Paul to sort out a game for his testimonial & approach the club for them to organise it, so it was in Paul's hands to get the ball rolling .

So he gives all them years of service to the club then he has to get off this back side and arrange everything? That's Salford all over, don't know why I'm surprised.

Rumour has it that the club are seeing if they can get a game against new Zealand or Australia as a warm up game for the four nations which would certainly be a fitting game to see the end of the Willows

I am a big fan of Paul Highton's but didn't he have a testimonial committee who looked after his twelve month of fund raising?

I was at a meeting when Paul was asked about his testimonial game and his reply was that it was being organised.

I cannot believe that the club are being criticized over this, what next?

Good to see the club stooges out in force again. Didn't the head coach at the time say we didn't have a space on the fixture list to fit the game in?

The last game at the Willows will be against W1g4n in April next year

We sign overweight and injured players..... Oh wait



OK so he had a committee? So why didn't they sort a game out? If they offered to get involved get involved!!! Salford fans make me laugh if a certain Mr Alker didn't have a testimonial game there would of be uproar! Too many fans are that far up his back side, just because it was Highton, who was a solid player and always gave his all nothing more nothing less, people seem to have one rule for one and one rule for another!

Who mentioned Alker?Whatever he got as a testimonial he deserved it and it was organized for him by a committee.

Paul Highton was equally deserving as you have said but his testimonial could have been organized better to include a testimonial match if that is what he wanted.

Both players received lots of support from the very people that you are having a go at.

Rather than banging your head against a wall (And criticising anything and everything the club do or dont do) why don't you put your hand up and volunteer to get involved?

You obviously feel very passionate about it.

I'm not criticising everything the club does, for example while I think the community work could be slightly improved however I think in the whole the job they do is good and rarely gets a mention because people don't want to know good news stories it's all about the bad. My issue is a feel at time the club is an embarrassment to the city of Salford but that's for another topic I don't want to digress. Why don't I get involved you say? Well when I'm spending my monies at the ground you think I am doing my job putting monies into the coffers, It's not upto us as fans to sort a players testiomal game. Which further goes to prove how much an embarrassment the club can be. As for the final game, seen as it agasint the Frenchies I would presume they're will be roughly 9k Salford fans there and maybe an extra 1k made up of rugby fans (Wigan, Leigh, St's) wanting to witness the final ever game at the Old Lady.

It's up to Paul or any testimonial player in any sport to choose their own Testimonial commitee, whether that be club officials, employees, agent, players, fans or friends and family.

It's up to the commitee to approach and arrange a convenient date for a testimonial game at the club. It is also the responsibilty of the player/commitee to approach the opposing team and get them to agree to play. (For those who don't know this is how testimonial games work) It's never the clubs who organise testimonial matches its always the commitee. If the initial date was not convenient on Mr McRae's say so (Assuming the post I read above is accurate) then its up to the comittee chairperson to further discuss with both clubs a date that is.

So what we're witnessing here is someone bleating, whining and accusing over a subject he/she has very little knowledge of?

Is this a Turkey first??

wh says that another game isnt being planned/arranged? ors it a case of, well the club havent said they are going to do something yet means they are not???


FWIW i think the club WILL do something, i would quite like t see a game between salford and swinton considering thatswho we opened the old girl against

First this hour!