Sale Sharks didn't drop the Sale bit of their name when they moved to Stockport. How many of their fans actually come from Sale and how aren't fussed about the prefix because they just want to support their local Union team? They even got 16k in for a match in Bolton.

It doesnt even have to be a full scale name change...just a change to the branding of your product by simply changing your badge slightly and having all merchandise, media releases and promotional material going out on the new brand as St Helens have done.

You would still be Salford City Reds RLFC, but you are just promoting the brand of 'City Reds' in preference to anything else. Take a look at the badge below....are you really saying you would stop supporting Salford if all you did was switched to this as your badge and brand from next year and trialed not using Salford in press releases for the year!!

I doubt half of you would even notice!!

This simple change if marketed correctly, could open you up to markets across the manchester region and bring thousands of new fans to the club which otherwise may not think about coming along to support the team, while realistically you lose nothing?! Surely worth considering if it has potential to give us a strong Salford / City Reds?

A few promotional posters across the greater manchester area, with this badge, a couple of strong RL images, and a "Coming soon to Barton / Trafford" strapline could bring you unimagined interest and transform your club!

You're wasting your time pal! Energise you efforts elsewhere!

Salford it is and Salford it will stay!

I'm OUT!

Another idiot from the boundary commission, Wigan for one may be a town but is has a larger population than Salford, secondly Wigan's football team is relatively new to the town of wigan which has always been a Rugby league town, Salford on the other hand have been competing with United and City for the past 100 years. The Leeds question is a good one but if you look at the population of leeds twice as big as Salford and with only one football team which in recent years have been very poor and hence lower crowds of 20,000, only now up to about 30,000, whcih also coincded with a revival at Headingly and larger crowds turning up. So Leeds have to compete with one football team with an average crwod of 30,000 from a population of 500k, whereas Salford have to compete with two (three if you count Bolton) with combined crowds of 150k on a population of 244k means that it is very difficult for Salford to change that mindset of football. No name change will change that, but I like the sound of Orrel Warriors, because outside of Wigan the name Wigan means nothing.

I think the pie eater has a point regarding the branding but i think to ditch the name Salford before weve even given barton a go is suicide.Salfordians are very proud people but the pie eater has a point Salford will always struggle for crowds.Just look at our last game at the willows.Yeah we attracted a 10.000 gate but for kids it was free, and for adults it was a £10.We wouldnt of got half that crowd otherwise.Im a rugby league fan and a salfordian and want rugby league in my area bigtime .But if the barton project fails to which ive no confidence in anyway, especially with these idiots running the show then im all for dropping the name .But to be perfectly honest ive never liked the name City Reds anyway.So i definately think our brand needs tweaking, but dropping the name Salford has to be a last resort for me.

At a time when Salford is gaining more and more media presence as a result of the BBC move to media city, it makes no sense to drop our identity. we can and should be taking advantage of this.

It all boils down to having a succesful team,top to bottom,we have got neither,people will not come and watch a team losing every week,fact,until wilky or somebody else takes this club by the throat and puts the right people in the right places we will go nowhere.We are failing on every front,its embarrasing,25 years of crap.There is no no prouder people than us,Salford is a city for gods sake.

EH??

Barton is very much in Salford, OK it might not be in the heart of Salford but there simply wasn't the land to build such a big project and the added infrastructure around it.

Worzel Wummidge.