Maybe the club could open a shop in there in one of the empty units. Put us on show to more people.

[quoteDear God what is your problem? You not like someone having a differing opinion to you?

If you're so keen on heritage why are you not advocating going back too the original colors? Heritage is often best left too books and memories as more often than not modernisation brings improvements. Are you saying if we become known universally as the Red Devils and become successful and self sustaining that you'd not support the team?

Regardless of the name they are my team, I have been going (or been taken) for 40+ years, played for them and will doubtless die with them in my heart - the name matters not one jot with it is what runs through your veins that matters.'"

I`m sure the Doc and Martin Vickers put a lot of work in securing this and the big money that seems to be coming with the deal, though I`m not so sure of the £1million I saw mentioned. Whichever design was chosen someone somewhere won`t like it but the amount of vitriol and negativity I`ve seen on twitter Facebook and on here about the deal would if I was the Doc make me wonder why I bother.
I agree with Michigan, we should be shouting this deal from the rooftops. If you don`t like the design don`t buy it...

As you say,this is a good news story.
Another one.

Every Club will have moaners and doom-mongers. It just seems to me that we have an awful lot per head of fan than others and for a Club perched so precariously as we are, we can't really afford that luxury. There's little point in sitting back and wallowing in sentiment. We all pine for the Willows, success, the good old days. When kits were kits and there wasn't a video referee in sight. Like everything else, time moves on and we as a Club and fanbase need to go with it or face being left in the past. Unable to or unwilling to partake in the present. The Club is unrecognisable from even a few years ago. In a good way.

We're in danger of nitpicking the Club to the point that MK might just not see the point full stop.

Which will not only leave us without the 'Horrible non-Salford Kit' but without any prospects for the future.

Shall we all get a grip?

Too put this into prospective , I can only think of one other RL team who have a deal with a bigger company (Brisbane & Nike) and certainly there can't be any who invest so heavily in the science of the kits they produce.

If you look also at some of the athletes UA sponsor then they again show what a huge brand they are.

Tom Brady - NFL player.
Lindsey Vonn - Skier.
Hunter Mahan - Golfer.
Jordan Spieth - Golfer.

Pretty sure that Kooga and ISC don't have the same world wide presence.

Would be good if they picked one of the Salford team too be one of their named athletes too help spread the name of not just Salford but RL in general.

Well said are kid, was going two post the same but it was two much trouble and the too people who'd read it are both two busy.

Of course not, sweetheart. Enjoy the rest of your day. x

In terms of heritage I meant more go back to the start and play in the original colours, for me the nod to the Red Devils was a stroke of genius by the club as so many of us have called for it, now that they have it they don't seem to be happy. From the Docs point of view as the sole owner of the club he is trying too find a way too market the club/brand to a wider audience so putting Salford on would possibly alienate some fans. Those of us from Salford know it is Salford and that is who we support.



You said it yourself, pot, kettle and black.

Do you not think the modernisation of the Salford club is a good thing? I do, there many more pros than the few cons, it is more media friendly, more marketable and I'd think more salable to players the club is looking too recruit.

Too me the club needs to do more to celebrate the clubs brilliant ex players, make each home game a celebration of one ex player. I got shouted down when I suggested that when we played on St Davids day a couple of seasons ago we got the many ex great Welsh players down to introduce them too the new owners and stadium Apparently we should though celebrate St Patricks day and the long tradition we have of recruiting Irish players such as Andy (I once drunk a pint of Guinness so I'm Irish) O'Burgess.

Is the club actively distancing itself from it's Salford connections? I don't see it that way but we shall have too agree too disagree on that.

The team playing in Red at Barton is the same one who played in Red at the Willows in my eyes, they could re brand too Barton Bombers but you, I and everyone from Salford knows that the team is Salford. Look at the forced mergers in Australia, the same people still support the merged teams because they know that they are following their team.

I can see why people would get annoyed yes, but are we going to have the crazy situation where they walk away and start a separate club start all over again as Salford? I'm not dismissing people as being negative as much as I might not agree I support anyone's right too have a differing opinion (I just chose sometimes to not bother with the limp brains behind those opinions), what I do say though is I think people need too be a little more appreciative of what someone is doing too save, expand and ultimately make our club self sustaining. I swear some would grumble if the Doc put £100 million in the bank too safe gaurd us for life, what only £100 million blah blah blah.

I do see your point on the amount of bums on seats, but what the re brand is as much as anything is a marketing/sales driven decision, look at the headlines when we started the Devilution last year, the image the club now has following this will be a big contributing factor in getting Under Armour as the kit manufacturer. The new image sells, the old one just patently didn't.

A concession I would like too have made was Salford woven into the fabric, pretty sure that would have been quite doable and would have kept so many people happy, I think that something like that is something that someone with acumen at the club should have sussed as it was being designed.

I do worry sometimes that the Doc is incredibly knee jerk and doesn't seem too have the best behind the scene advisers, what I'd hate was a cumulative effect of all the negativity too start to wear him down, I doubt he'd walk away but I could see him offering the club up for the best taker. The Doc obviously loves the club and I'd love too see him get a return on his investment, get full houses and see nothing but love and bonhomme from the various sections of fans - some is attainable some I'm afraid will never happen

You need to get a chant going for next season incorporating the new "Red Devils" or you might be ridiculed like the Hudds fans for chanting "Fartown - Fartown".