If it makes financial sense I'm sure they will grin and bear it just like Wigan handle sharing with a second rate football team.

I lived in Alty for a while... it's not that posh. Well, that is apart from Hale and Bowdon obviously....

Mind you, I did go down to Moss Lane to watch Alty FC every now and again, the standard of football and the quality of the stadium did remind me of the Latics in my youth....

The best thing salford could do regarding the name change is just drop salford and become the 'City Reds' .

That way they wouldnt alienate the traditional supporter base by having any other reference to Manchester or the surrounding area, but would also open up potential for attracting fans from all over the manchester and salford region.

This way the 'City Reds' could stand for different things depending upon the supporter - to the old they remain Salford City Reds, yet to potential new fan basis in manchester, they could feel they were representative of them (be that the city of manchester / city of salford etc) also and widen their potential fan base to the whole M60 region. Perhaps there could also then be a further clever rebranding phase depending upon the success further down the line to be the 'Cities Reds' bringing together supporters of manchester and salford if it was felt the support started to drift in this way.

I'd see this in a similar way that St Helens re branding has now seen them brand as 'Saints' in order that they do not alienate the existing fan base of st helens, but can also appeal to new markets in liverpool and the supporting area. Lets face it, no one from Hyton are going to support 'St Helens' as there is no ownership, inclusion to them, yet if they support 'Saints' this repersents whatever 'Saints' represents in their mind, and can be different for different supporters.

If Salford put up 1,000 posters in Manchester with 'Salford City Reds' they are never going to get the support whereas convesley if they do the same with 'City Reds' Manchester fans will assume the city refers to them and are more likely to get on board.

The only difficulty with this one is that it would perhaps confuse soccerball fans with their being seemingly references to City and Utd (reds) in their name - that said this could provide a clever marketing ploy and a great deal of media attention across manchester and salford. ie/ Cities Reds - "A Truly United Team"

I think that's a great idea. If they could support from a wider manchester audience they could become a massive force in SL

Salford fans would go mental at the thought of dropping 'salford', just mention changing to Manchester and the toys are out the pram.

It should have been Manchester Devils from the off instead of SCR

Would we have accepted taking out the Wigan name and being called 'The Warriors' had we actually moved to the Reebok back in the late 90's?

I think not.

I also think that it's disrespectful towards Salford supporters who, in my opinion, would be right to oppose being re-branded.

Quote: Barge "Would we have accepted taking out the Wigan name and being called 'The Warriors' had we actually moved to the Reebok back in the late 90's? I think not. I also think that it's disrespectful towards Salford supporters who, in my opinion, would be right to oppose being re-branded.'" Difference being its just a 5h1t moniker for us, where as salford have always been known as the 'red devils' or the 'city reds' to a significant extent in the past. The only people who refer to us as warriors are the under 8s and latics fans!!!! Therefore the difference is significant. Salford becoming the 'city reds' is very comparable with st helens becoming 'Saints' they are just droping one of two instantly recognisable names for the club. Saints will always be St Helens to the existing support in the same way the city reds would always be Salford, it just opens up other opportunities to sell the brand given there is a limited support base and this is much needed. The Salford fans seem to think its all a wind up on their board though- viewtopic.php?f=20&t=512342

Quote: Barge "Would we have accepted taking out the Wigan name and being called 'The Warriors' had we actually moved to the Reebok back in the late 90's? I think not. I also think that it's disrespectful towards Salford supporters who, in my opinion, would be right to oppose being re-branded.'" Difference being its just a 5h1t moniker for us, where as salford have always been known as the 'red devils' or the 'city reds' to a significant extent in the past. The only people who refer to us as warriors are the under 8s and latics fans!!!! Therefore the difference is significant. Salford becoming the 'city reds' is very comparable with st helens becoming 'Saints' they are just droping one of two instantly recognisable names for the club. Saints will always be St Helens to the existing support in the same way the city reds would always be Salford, it just opens up other opportunities to sell the brand given there is a limited support base and this is much needed. The Salford fans seem to think its all a wind up on their board though- viewtopic.php?f=20&t=512342

talk to Stockport county people about how sale have fecked them over since they ground shared at Edgely park

if they do share i hope they do some background checks first

Having checked on the Salford board it seems they are tenants in the stadium and have no say on who may or may not ground share with them.

A week is a long time in politics as Harold Wilson once said.The same could be said about Rugby league

I'm sure it's Salford council who'll be calling the shots. Money's money and if they can guarantee year round income then I'm sure they'll do whatever they can to make it so. The only problem I can see is February to May and October when the union and rugby league seasons overlap.

Wigan could rebrand themselves as The Pie Eaters, they have been known as this through their history and it's an instantly recognisable name to market to new fans after all who doesn't love a good pie.

steak and kidney is my favourite.