Wilky and the b.o.d have put us in this situation in my eyes,and that i have to accept,what i won`t accept is that people posting on here want me to welcome somebody who is associated with a sport that has tried in everywhich way it can to destroy the sport i love.If that makes me a bigot,dinosaur or whatever then im proud to be any of them so called names,i`ve nothing to be ashamed of anything my sport as tried to do to any other sport.

Back to the original post, this gentleman has taken the time to come on here to offer the hand of friendship and to invite some fellow rugby fans to share a pint prior to a game.

You're all within your rights to accept or decline this offer, according to your preference. But I don't think the man deserves to be disrespected.

It's obvious some Salford fans are vehemently anti-union and see this, in quite dramatic terms, as 'sleeping with the enemy' but I think it's clear that not everybody thinks that way.

I'll certainly accept the OP's offer.

I won't apologise for some of the less enlightened comments on here any more than I'd expect the OP to apologise if someone I meet at Edgeley Park turns out to a bit of a bellend! League, union, rich, poor, black, white etc....bellends get everywhere.

All I'll suggest is that people at least try to be tolerant, behave courteously and treat others as they find them.

"The days of antagonism between Union and League are long gone and the two codes now exist side by side in harmony, as indeed they should."


Do they though?

Union was intent on destroying league for decades whereas League just got on with its business and ignored union. We never banned players for supporting league or playing another code. We didn't ban players for 'amateurising' themselves.

Union have only stopped attacking us since they themselves became professional and realised the hypocrisy of carring on as they were.
Knowing full well that their finances are vastly superior to ours, saw us as an irrelavence or a noisey and poor neighbour.
They tolerate us and i'd wager a bet that they only do that because they know occasionally we'll produce talented rugby players and rather than lose them to a completely unrelated sport like cricket or football, they'll have basic union skills as well as advanced league skills which sometimes translate to their game and make the transition easier.

People go on about league insecurities, but i think they're warranted, we are the pretty blonde poor girl with no prospects and union are the ugly rich fat man banker offering lifetime security and opening her up to a whole new level of society.

Union are not our friends and they never will be and if they had the power to kill off a sport at the flick of a finger they wouldn't touch football, they'd do it to league just out of spite.

You are not kidding anybody,maybe yourself,but the enlightened can see right through you.

Enlightened ??
Classic

Some of our fans are a fuc*king embarrassment. We will have this discussion in 5 years time. In the mean time why don't you all go and w@nk Sale off go and watch them and suck Kennedy off
And o Fu*k off Tarry.

No1 can give me a positive as to why the Sale move is going to benefit Salford and the reasons that are given are quite frankly something only a chimp would believe. I know why don't we all go for a nice greek before the next Sale home game?

Has the penny not dropped yet? Nobody needs to give you a positive or otherwise. They are here now. And whether you choose to look for potential benefits and maintain a positive outlook or simply sulk and expect the worst to happen, it's an unalterable fact.

I'd actually have more respect for the doom mongers if they actually did something (arrange a demo, blockade the stadium, anything!) rather than just sulk behind behind a keyboard throwing out scattergun insults in all directions.

The truth is, I was annoyed when the Blue seats suddenly appeared and our club failed to be transparent about what was going on, I was annoyed by some of the disrespectful remarks that Diamond made in the press and I've no more idea than anyone else on here as to whether Kennedy's intentions are malicious.

But I also know that once Red City Developments died a death (can anybody believe in hindsight that we swallowed that fairy tale?) and we effectively agreed to assume the role of tenants, that it was inevitable that we would be sharing the stadium with someone else and that the someone else would almost certainly be Sale.

I'd have preferred us to have had a little longer to stamp our own mark on the stadium first (although there's little to suggest what difference this would make) and I'd have preferred it if our own club had been a little more open about what was going on. But that wouldn't have altered what in my opinion is/was an inevitability.

The point I will continue to make is that, regardless of your feelings on this inevitability, it's in the club's best interest to look forward and do all it can to ensure that it plays an active and equal role in this partnership.

If we're able to do this, there are a number of [ipotential [/ipositive outcomes (eg, improved transport links and stadium infrastructure, increased fan base, reduced overheads, increased corporate support).

However, if the club follows the lead set by some on here and chooses to sit back, sulk and wait for the worst to happen, then we are indeed doomed.

Very well put.

I like/dislike some of your (slang) but you have the conviction to follow it through so respect. But I love this one, didn't they just stay solvent long enough to get a franchise

You never know now there is nothing left in Weaste the Willows might go bust, and there might be problems with the land use agreements. Ow hang on.

As for embracing Rugger In Salford I'm a proud Dinosaur

Bore off! Go drink some pimms and watch your kick and clap in a stadium that you would never of had but for SRLFC!

Love it! How any plastic league/Salford fan can accept Sale/Union whatsoever is beyond it for me! Its not draconian either, just common sense! F U C K OFF Sale and RU! I'll say it if no one else will!

Not just that but all the other e you spoute! Salford RL and RL in general doesn't want or need people like you! You come across as always wanting inferiority to me rather than fighting the cause no matter how you want to spin it!

Whereas you're 'fighting the cause' how? Swearing at strangers on the internet?