How do we know they hav`nt registered Barton ?

SALE SET FOR SALFORD GROUND SHARE


[iSale Sharks are poised to announce a ground-sharing move with Super League club Salford City Reds.

The Sharks have been linked for some time with a switch to the new £26million City of Salford Stadium, which opened earlier this year, and have called a press conference at the ground on Wednsday [4-4-12] morning "to make a major club announcement".

Sale have spent the last nine years at Stockport's Edgeley Park after moving from the club's Heywood Road base but are thought to have struck a deal with Peel Holdings and Salford City Council, the joint owners of the 12,000-seater stadium at Barton, just off the M60 motorway.

Premiership entry rules stipulate that all top-flight clubs have to register their declared ground for the following season by March 31, a deadline that passed at the weekend.
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'Salford, whose crowds so far at their new home have been disappointing, hovering below the 6,000 mark, are set to welcome the move.'
-Skysports.com


Good luck lads.

This is where Salford arrive at a cross roads, either the presence of a bigger club of a rival code (that hates RL) will prompt and trigger the board to up a gear with marketing or the usual rugby league apathy and passiveness will cause the club to become the 2nd best at the SCS.

Maybe the move from Weaste was a mistake if the club's future isnt as bright as we all expected. Union is never to be trusted as a system and corporate rival. Maybe many junior/amateur RU clubs have great relations with RL clubs but at the top end of the ladder, both rugby clubs will be competing for the corporate meal ticket...union has the edge I'm afraid unless RL clubs take action.

Picket line at Barton on Wednesday morning then?

It'll be interesting to see what is said at the press conference tomorrow and what, if any, statement Salford come out with.

will Salford be allowed a say? Personally I doubt it

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Now I'm not suggesting anyone spray paints that anywhere on the stadium, but I'd be quite happy to throw a few quid in and have an advertising hoarding put up in the south stand with it on!

I'm just left wondering now how long it'll be until the stadium management company change the grounds name?

Interesting that "The North West's Team" (sic) are to make the announcement from Barton. Seems a foregone conclusion (as we knew some time ago).

Before we begin seppuku or gnashing of teeth, it has nothing to do with the club nor can we , as visitors who watch tenants at a stadium largely owned by an amoral company, affect this decision.

All we can do is to become the bigger support so becoming indispensible to the stadium company.
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Bit short notice for one of these: www.mediavariation.co.uk/advertising-vans.php or getting a plane to tow round a big 100% League, 0% Union banner.

Bit short notice for one of these: www.mediavariation.co.uk/advertising-vans.php or getting a plane to tow round a big 100% League, 0% Union banner.

what's happened to the banners that were in the east stand (think it was either the London or Hull game) ?

The East Stand was open for Leeds & Wigan, whereas it was closed for London.

So today is the day. We as Salford fans need to stop pushing the "oh we're just tenants' line and stop meekly accepting our fate. Barton is a ground built by Salford council for Salford RL. It's a ground we gave up our home of 110 years to play at and to see Sale muscle in after putting in not one ounce of effort to get it built really sticks in my throat. I await the day's events with interest.

Totally agree, I bought the Telegraph this morning. What ho!