erm, 10 million?

I am pleased the new stadium will now only be for 15,000.

I always thought the original plans were a non starter from day one.

2012

Well, with Widnes having ticked every box for SL status already, with very good possibilities of Toulouse and Paris being seriously considered, and Wakefield continuing to get into the play-offs ...

Batley here we come.

Its beyond a joke now, Ill look forward to trips to Swinton. Lie after *ing lie. 2012 next it will be 2013 & so on ill be dead by the time its built and im only 18!

I'm not even getting worked up about it anymore, to be honest i couldn't care less. I'll still go watching them because its all I know, but I gave up on the stadium and any chance of getting a licence long before now.

Hmmm, I reckon that the land and road works will begin end of Feb/start of March this year ready for the start of the construction work in September. A 60 week build will end up with a nice Xmas present for Salford in 2011.

But don't tell anyone!

All we need is just a little (bit more) patience!

As someone else has just said I have long ago given up hope on the stadium getting built, if indeed i'm wrong it will be a very nice surprise.

Let us just hope that it isnt all a little bit to late to prevent us loseing our franchise in the next round of bidding.

I have never been convinced it will happen and nothing seems to suprise me any more. they have to apply for a new franchise soon so if something dont happen soon it will never happen at all

lets all hang in there a little bit longer,

"have a little patience......yeah" there is a song in there somewhere.....

front page of the advertiser doesnt air a very positive view where salford are concerned,

i can see the uproar coming off the back of it now! salford council borrow 10m taxpayers money to help the build?

can you imagine the general publics opinion on the matter? i beleive it will be built but wasnt the funding supposedly in place a while back? and peel are planning to apply for a sizeable grant from the nwda to pay for the majority of their part of the build?, if that fails what are they going to do, pull out, or pay up?

i know there is the old, 'stadium got to be built before the port' and i appreciate it, i can understand the reasons behind applying for a grant but for some reason it also tells me the feel they have spent enough money on the cause?

There has been too much money spent on it not to happen i recon, it will be built, we will have to wait a while, it wont be on our terms and we might not get our superleague fanchise but this is salford we are talking about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory/snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.

Did anyone think it was going to be easy? Everything salford RLFC do is likened to be on a rollercoaster anyway so personally im not to upset about this last piece of news , come feb/march and the land and road is being built and we can see it happened everyone will be happy again and the buzz will return.

And how much longer are you expecting to us to wait another 10 years

Not for the first time I agree with The Optimist.

Where does it say in the paper please that the Stadium is NOT going to be built?

In fact if the Stadium is to be FINISHED by 2012 Salford are very much in the driving seat for a SL Franchise. Most of the RL that a club representing Manchester/Salford is vital for RL.

Far too much water now under the bridge for it not to happen.

i dont doubt that it wont happen, never have done... i am just concerned about big objections coming on the back of this taxpayers money thing

half of salford dont contribute to tax anyway

FFS people. 2 points.

1. If this is in the paper now, going to committee next week, and the tenders are in for the site infrastructure work - then it's pretty bleeding obvious that it is going to happen.

2. We've known from day one that site remediation and infrastructure is a 6 month job, and appox 60 week stadium build. So, that's about 20 months. Nothing has been done yet, so nothing can be complete until at least August 2011, and that's if we start now. 2012 season is not really a surprise, and not really a sign of any further delay - merely a sign that nobody involved with this has a time machine.