Whole site is now fenced off.
Plenty of activity going on ny the looks of it.
As for the comuinity stadium aspect I just hope it dos`nt follow the example of what has transpired at Leigh .

It will and we (the fans) need to learn from what the Leigh fans have been through in the first couple of years at the LSV to ensure that our transition to the new stadium is smooth.

Please excuse my ignorance but what's transpired at Leigh?

Briefly Leigh East had problems with the management company over fees , Leigh Genisis FC now playing at Atherton .

Tis true, but I was referring more to the problems Leigh RLFC fans have had, when it was meant to be 'their' stadium (hence the comparisons with our new place).

There was an awful lot of tension between the LSV management and the club/fans over matchday experience, treatment of fans, etc. and it's take a good couple of years to get over that.

I just hope that someone from Salford gets in touch with them and tries to avoid simiar issues at Barton.

Oh ok. By this do you mean LSV management enforced a typically corporate style product with over efficient stewards who nit-pick over every minor H&S infringemnet? i.e., one toe on a yellow line, standing in seated areas and such like.

Which leads me to another question. Anybody know if there will be a standing area? Something that was included in the first design at the request of a large section of fans who've stayed loyal to the club for a very long time.

O/T.


Ive just got back from Leigh having watched them play Fax this afternoon. Their stewards were well organised, polite and extremely helpful. Nothing like the mob handed crew at the willows who cant wait to shift you out of the ground as soon as the final hooters gone!

I too went to the LSV today. It's a fantastic stadium. I loved it. It's perfect. I don't understand the shoe-box jokes either or the digs at the lack of atmoshphere. I had a really great day today and the stadium experience made it so.

Couldn't agree more

Bring your socket wrench set to the first game just incase its all seated, and by the end of the first half there will be a rather large standing area

I've had another quite frankly brilliant idea

As next year will hopefully be the last at the Willows the club will be missing a trick if they don't market the fact.

They need to produce a special commemorative season ticket for next season.
Give next years ST holders the benefit of being given a piece of the turf and some other form of memorabilia come the end of the season.
Give ST holders an option to maybe purchase something of say greater value from the ground, I can see the KOTS household with a nice Post in the back garden as a centre piece.
And there will i'm sure be a past players and dignatories special event in the variety centre which if marketed right could be open also to season ticket holders.

I'm pretty certain there are a million other ways to generate revenue next season on the coat tails of the new ground, let's just hope the powers that be look into them.

How about a commemorative shirt for the final season at The Willows...?

"As next year will hopefully be the last at the Willows the club will be missing a trick if they don't market the fact."

I own a key ring with the message "The Willows 1901-2009" and have three car stickers with the same message.
We've tempted fate once...

Full detailed planning ap now been submitted - publicaccess.salford.gov.uk/publ ... ype=WEEKLY No documents on there yet though.

Full detailed planning ap now been submitted - publicaccess.salford.gov.uk/publ ... ype=WEEKLY No documents on there yet though.