Your right but kind of missed my point.... Hull and Wigan was rugby country long before football came along and was very successful in the sport.

Manchester/Salford was very successful in football long before Rugby came along and there rugby team unlike the two mentioned above are'nt that great.... Yes lots of Liverpool, United, Everton fans watch Warrington but how many go to there games ?... not many, on the other hand the residents of Manchester/Salford will choose the football match over the rugby match every day of the week.

erm...you'll find its in Salford

rlMaybe this should be on the recommended books listrl

And they have won the league more recently than we have....

This is great news for RL. We need a strong team / club in Manchester / Salford and the location could not be better. I would guess that over 100k vehicles travel over Barton Bridge each day. I bet the Chill Factor gets a lot of people passing it thinking "I should give that a try" This would be similar (not the same) for Salford. It would be sort of free advertising. I heard a caller on GMR on Sunday say that the RFL should move to Salford to coincide with the BBC's move there. Salfords ground would be an ideal location for a new base for the RFL. They just need to get rid of Sims and Mcrae and start getting their act together on the pitch.

Enjoy Salford purley for the fact you can still watch a game whilst in the beer queue - same they couldnt just pick the existing ground up and move it!

Great news for Salford and the NW in general though