Kennedy is a very dangerous man, allow him in and your rugby club and you will be in big trouble. Look at Stockport County, i am a season ticket holder at SC and wish we had never seen this Kenndy man. He has taken our ground after over 100years and turned our Bowling green of a pitch into something that resembles Southport beach.
He takes 30% of all our football gate receipts and we even have to pay £25/hour for use of the board room for club meetings.
Dont touch him with a barge pole.

As Sally puts it, admittedly in a sarcastic tone, why should RL go into the RU heartlands and try to burden them with Super League??.....Sale coming here would be the same thing, wouldn't it??

I put this forward for debate some months ago and the general view was a 'No.' Sale aren't in that good financial state themselves, having got rid of most of their high earners at the end of last season. RU in the North isn't that popular, Sale are struggling, as are the Falcons and Leeds will probably get relegated again. Kennedy will no doubt be looking for somewhere else to play shortly and my view is that they will move in with Salford if the new stadium at Barton ever gets built.

Dave Swanton recently stated in a post on the Sale forum that Brian Kennedy has pumped £13 million of his own money into Sale RU - now looking at the state of Edgeley Park it`s hard to see how this has been invested so presumably it`s cash put it to stem losses ...
If he pulls out they will be in real trouble ...

"IF" Sale RU went to Salford's new stadium in a ground share with the Reds then Kennedy would be able to sell Edgeley Park and get some of his money back from there.

I think it is different AP, though ground availaility is a common factor. Rugby League has tried to expand in areas where it perceived there was a market for it (London, South Wales, France) but where for a long time it was effectively prevented from doing so because of the availbility of grounds. Some efforts have been more succesful than others. Sale only moved about 10 miles from its base to Stockport and its fan base in South Manchester moved with it. I guess if SP is costing a lot of money Kennedy would want to draw a line under it and go somewhere else that would be cheaper, but it would still take its fan base with it.

Anyway for me the argument is much simpler, like most league fans I don't want them in my ground and in fact I'm not sure why we are discussing it in our forums

See you on the ice