Just to pad this out a little: when Salford were invited to Maine Road around 1999/2000, it was the Council who persuaded the club to get on board with a new stadium in the city. The Council offered a piece of barren, non-descript land at a ‘peppercorn’ rent for Salford to develop on, and it was a development company largely composed of Salford’s directors that funded the project. Two relegations and a number of grandiose iterations later, with borrowings/equity leveraged on The Willows, said development company went into liquidation.

The project was salvaged by the Council and Peel, who were an early objector, with a scaled-down, cut-price model. It wasn’t what the club wanted but now they were hardly in a situation to choose otherwise.

So you are a tenant without any obligations to the landlord? Brilliant

A simple question is what's your interest? are you a rate payer in Salford?

And Koukash knows this. He wants Salford City Council’s share of the stadium and has leverage with a stadium elsewhere; Sale also have leverage with a stadium elsewhere. Who blinks first?

It's traditionally a highly competitive field but you've put down a strong marker for the prize of most ill-informed post of the week. Well done.

Out of interest, could FR apply for the stadium to be an ‘asset of community value’? mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-right-to-bid/

Out of interest, could FR apply for the stadium to be an ‘asset of community value’? mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-right-to-bid/

What is both "ridiculous"and "ironic" is your post if you care to re read what you have written. Particularly where you state and I'm paraphrasing, that the new regime is meeting its obligations that will eventually recover the 'debt' and more, but, we might just buzz off and not meet those obligations if we feel that it doesn't suit us.

Isn't that the point, simplified though it is?

Why thank you Wayward Fan your obviously entitled to that opinion, not one I share.

One thing I will agree on is that on this board it is a highly competitive field made up in the most part by your own posters

A simple answer to a simple question, yes

Fair comment, carry on like this and you will be in the running for Wayward Fan's for ill informed post of the week award

Uncle Rico - The Salford rate payer who travels to Warrington to watch RL, complaining about the prospect of Salford moving out of town. Great stuff this.

Well they planned for thishttps://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42358000/jpg/_42358723_salford_reds1_416.jpg" >

The plan was to make the club (with stadium) self-sufficient through radial developments — whether they were a retail park, a ‘supercasino’ or a hotel. Essentially this was Wilky’s legacy.

In retrospect, you could argue that it was ‘pie in the sky’; you could also argue that the economic collapse five or six years ago put pay to any development funded in this way.

This is just part of the story as many of the Salford supporters on here, who lived through this saga for ten years, could tell you.

Getting back to the original point, I tend to agree with Bill’s comments earlier. We need to assess the ground if/when Salford have a side worth watching. It’s just that we need that side next year, and that may be a tough ask.

Rico ,Stones- Glass houses- Warrington Council loaned Wire 200K in the early 2000's when they were struggling . OK for them , not OK for us??
or are you trolling cos you are bored with no game to go to over the Aug bank holiday ?