I grew up within a mile of the AJ Bell stadium - big football area and no Rugby played in our schools. That said Irlam Hornets and Eccles rugby league clubs both within a couple of miles from the club.

Salford in their pomp - days of David Watkins, Keith Fielding et al, never commanded massive crowds - similar to Swinton who had to sell their best players.

Coupled with its awkward location - doomed as far as good crowds are concerned.

We have shown on a few occasions including this year that we can attract for us a fairly decent crowd. For the Widnes game this year at home the attendance was just over 5,000.This was after both clubs had very good wins so the crowds were attracted by the good rugby we were playing. They stayed around the 4.500 mark for the next few games even after some difficult loses and we did take a fair amount to Cas. Then the salary cap charges came then later the points deduction and with that came the big decrease in crowds which can only be blamed on the DR. A few years back before all the problems with him came to light we had some great attendances in 2014 at around 7,000 for a few. But these were well marketed which seems to have become very poor since the Doc became the CEO. I understand the DR saved us but so far he's seems to lurch from one disaster to another and keeps the club in a constant negative media spell. So if he does go to Leigh then good luck to him. But i can't see it working out with him and Beaumount together.

5-6 miles out of Leigh on a godforsaken piece of waste land? Do you mean Wiggin???