The Barton stadium will need 30 odd games a year with reasonable attendance to operate successfully , in that stadium , Sale need you , you need Sale

Without the union hang ups and hatred i genuinely don't see a problem.

The stadium doesn't belong to Salford and it WON'T belong to Sale, like all stadiums it's a concreate block with grass in the middle that facilitates the ease of watching a game with multiple bodies. The season is at a different time of year and your chairman and Sale's chairman will have a minimal role in the running of the stadium.

Stop moaning for the sake of it and just enjoy the facilities you get to watch your team in.

My point and worry is if Salford and Sale come under the same ownership in the future, that we might not have much of a team worth watching, irrelevant of who owns the stadium.

I don't understand why they would do though, i don't mean to sound derogatory but Sale are a bigger entity than Salford right now, they have a higher crowd average and why would Kennedy want to either buy or have a stake in SCR?
If i was the owner of Sale because i liked union why would i invest in a league side unless i thought i could make money out of it?

Even x amount of years down the line i can't see any sort of crossover between Sale and Salford, if and that's a massive IF either of Salford or Sale wanted to own the stadium i'm pretty sure a covenant would be drawn in to the contract to protect both parties interests.

If the stadium was actually Salfords then i'd understand your fears but seeing as it belongs to the council i see no problems.

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With money to spend , that's the important bit

There was a very good article in MEN recently pointing out that RU can and will attract RL stars with the promises of far better salaries, more media presence, and more international status.

That's the major concern with a "joint" ownership: we (i.e. the club) become a feeder/of lower status : the work of such as Blackburn and Hunte would be part of a supply chain to Sale's teams. This would be the opposite of what happened at Wigan (anyone remember Orrell?) but similar in effect: the RL presence would always be at the behest of the RU club.
This may be the future now England RU have the financial/media clout to tempt RL players from even such as Wigan and Leeds. However why us?
I know I am seen as sometimes gloomy but I am very concerned if Kennedy could take over. It has been a strong possibility for some time.

I cannot see it assisting a continued SL status either.

Wether it would be joint ownership or not isn't the issue , the Barton Stadium will need over 30 matches a year to operate without losing money , either way you will end up with a partner tenant , but they will need you , just as much as you need them

The only way it wont work is if you cannot grow your fan base there , if that happens , then you have problems

That will entirely depend on what kind of revenues they can get on the other 300+ days a year they will be renting it out as a very conveniently located conferencing/function venue. Looking at the amount of bookings the Event City team seem to have generated from a standing start in an ex Argos warehouse the people behind this seem to know what they are doing.

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Looking at the Catering deal , have the SMC not given this up to that company for the 26 grand a week ? , that is how I read it ?

If anyone thinks Kennedy would be good for Salford then they really haven't paid attention to the way Stockport have been screwed over.

Again, you would have thought he'd have no interest in taking Stockport on unless he could make a success out of them... Instead he's bled them dry and left them for dead.

I just pray he's not allowed anywhere near control of Salford, nor the stadium and Peel/the council keep him at arm's length if Sale do move in.

where has this been announced? am i missing it in the thread somewhere?