That was a bullet dodged.

We should be incredibly thankful for initially fantastic support from the council and subsequently support from Moran and latterly Middleton.

But the council fostered this growth in the club, land given by Tetley Walkers, Planning Permission for the supermarket and stadium given by the council on the condition Tesco paid for the stadium. Fit out of stadium then paid for by sponsorship through Martin Dawes I think? Look at other deals for council built stadiums and we’ve been very lucky to end up with a facility that is owned by us when you look at Hull FC, Leigh, Salford, Saints etc etc.

I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense.

For all there are 'unsavory' areas, every town has them and Salford is a city btw, there is wealth in Salford, Fred and Peter Done are perhaps best known in that category, the trick is finding one that is interested in the sport and their hometown club.

Salford has a strange demographic, yes it does get over shadowed by its conjoined twin and does suffer with its identity to distinguish itself from Manchester particularly as an evening there would be classed as going uptown. But it does have a Cathedral, a proper University, two Rugby League teams, a Football Team in the old Fourth Division and the area around the Docks is impressive

For all the limitations in numbers Salford do have a group of diehards and I'm not sure they would relocate and accept a rebrand and I don't see 6,000 Mancunians waiting in the wings to take their place.

They missed the boat IMO with the ground location and its design somewhere like Agecroft, or as part of a redevelopment of Littleton Road sharing with Salford City and Swinton might have made more sense

Make your mind up, it’s either complete nonsense or it’s not.

Oh it's complete nonsense alright, and part quoting my post doesn't prove your point or weaken my argument. Manchester's boom isn't because of an influx of Rugby League starved residents.

What you seem to be advocating is a move to relocate Salford to a Manchester, let's say they will be called or merged with Manchester Rangers and they can then flourish spreading the Rugby League Gospel across the whole of Greater Manchester whilst recognizing that Wigan Leigh Rochdale Oldham Swinton will draw on most of the appetite for the game.

Well it seems that this has been mooted before and there wasn't any traction. I'm not au fait with the current state of play but Rangers have a connection with Salford but with Salford being the senior partner. Oh and the current fans who moan about getting a bus from Weaste to Barton, well a trip to Belle Vue or the Etihad Campus mmm don't think so