First game for Sale at Barton tonight. Early observations:

Salfords club shop has been emptied out and replaced with Sale merchandise.
The East stand is now known as the MBNA East Stand.
The North stand is now known as the BMI Healthcare North Stand.

Hopefully a few of them will decide to park on Brookhouse.

Saw a clip of them on Sky training on the astroturf.
Our badge on the stand was blacked out.
So much for this working together bull$hit

Sale playing in OUR ground tonight just about puts the cherry on the top of this week's cake doesn't it?

Just as a matter of interest , I went on the Sale Sharks site to see how much my seat in the West stand would cost for tonight`s game against Leinster.----------------£37 plus a fee for picking up at the ground!!!!!

£!5 in the standing though. Wonder if Salford will do something similar next year and reduce the standing price but maybe whack a couple of quid onto the cost of going in the seats.

Two for £14 on groupon which isn't bad value really.

I'd like to know what the difference in takings from the corporate, dining and on site beer sales is between us and Sale.

Went past the stadium on the way home from work, quite busy even at 5 o'clock. Painful to see really never gonna get use to this. These are dark days.

Just been on the M60, went passed at 8pm. The traffic was horrendous, gridlocked back past Trafford Centre junction. The inside lane was not moving at all. Sale fans will be far from impressed, a look on their forum tomorrow will make interesting reading.

Would like to find out the crowd tonight, if the attendance is not near to capacity then I would love to see the traffic when there is a sell out!

Welcome to the wonderful Salford City Stadium, Sale RUFC

Would any company want to sponsor the stadium with all the problems and bad press it has created so far

That's not new. It took the shuttle bus about 20 minutes to get from the top of the bridge to the roundabout when we played Wigan in the pre-season friendly.

Im glad I dont have to make that journey. If the traffic is gridlocked on the M60 when the game is kicking off there must be lots of people missing kick off? Or is it the unfortunate residents of the one road in one road out district of Irlam & Cadishead that are kopping for most of the tailbacks.

Quote: Iain "Are these names just for Sale games? Who has sold the sponsorship/gets the money? Were we just unable to find sponsors from our client base or does our lease not let us. Have they physically covered the Reds badges on the stand? '" Don't know the details just noticed it on the ticketline site, although there are no sponsors for the stands on our page which would suggest it will be just for Sale games? The reds logo was handily covered up when they had the tv cameras down at training the other day: img402.imageshack.us/img402/889/salemmw.jpg No idea if it was the same for tonights game.

Quote: Iain "Are these names just for Sale games? Who has sold the sponsorship/gets the money? Were we just unable to find sponsors from our client base or does our lease not let us. Have they physically covered the Reds badges on the stand? '" Don't know the details just noticed it on the ticketline site, although there are no sponsors for the stands on our page which would suggest it will be just for Sale games? The reds logo was handily covered up when they had the tv cameras down at training the other day: img402.imageshack.us/img402/889/salemmw.jpg No idea if it was the same for tonights game.

Went over the Bridge tonight at about 9OUR supporters bar was platered with Sale pictures and the club shop full of their merchandise.

Lots of sleeveless bubble coat, cord wearing, jumpers over the shoulders type of people around

Score at HT 3-3
Dont know full time as my son said he would rather stick pins in his eyes than watch that (have to agree)

Would alteration of the external illuminated signage of the stadium require planning permission?

Karlos13 you seem to forget that we are only leasing the stadium as are sale so at the end of day sale are renting like us so I would think they have just as much right to name stands. Also allowing them to use club shop and set there own prices. I might give watching sale a chance as I don't just follow rugby league I love sport in general even though rugby league is favourite. I am going off rugby league slowly as there dont seem to change and are ruining our good game the Rfl.