The Newton Heath ground fell through. It looks like it's going to be in Moston now. They wouldn't play in Salford anyway. Salford already have a football club and FC are a Manchester club.

Salford does have potential but the stadium alone won't pull people in, it will depend on them having some solid finance behind them to get up to full salary cap, and getting a good coach in who can for them what Nathan Brown has done for Huddersfield. I think if they had Huddersfield type success (get to a final, be a competitive playoff team) and have one or two high profile players there, Salford would get a big increase in crowds.

I reckon Salford has branding power because a lot of Salfordians are big on their "Salford NOT Manchester" identity as a city, and the RL club does provide that form of branding, which is why they have committed die hards who have put up with a lot of crap supporting Salford. I wouldn't rule them out being a strong team but they need a top coach.

If I was a Simon Moran-esque business man right now I'd be up for buying Salford and seeing what I could do with them, I'd try and get Tony Smith as coach, if I pulled that off I reckon I could guarantee a thriving set of gates at Salford within the next few years.

Marketing will be key for Salford i think, they should be looking to plaster the first game in their new stadium all over manchester, Theres a huge market in manchester for entertainment, even tapping a tiny amount of that would offer far more than SL hopefuls like halifax, fev etc.

I will wish them all the best until they start winning trophies 20.04345703125:5