Toulose get a "b" grading according to sky

[stormtragic]

OK - I'm not the world's premier expert on the geography and social history of the historic counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire... but isn't Wigan also capable of flying the flag for RL in Greater Manchester?

:?

not enough support... theyve distanced themselves away from manchester, salford and leigh are the main manchester teams

 

[dallymessenger]

OK - I'm not the world's premier expert on the geography and social history of the historic counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire... but isn't Wigan also capable of flying the flag for RL in Greater Manchester?

:?

much farther away.

salford for example is where Man utd get lots of supporters from

 

[dallymessenger]

not enough support... theyve distanced themselves away from manchester, salford and leigh are the main manchester teams

Leigh ? theyre part of wigan.

the teams near manchester are salford, oldham and rochdale.

 

[screeny]

much farther away.

salford for example is where Man utd get lots of supporters from

All of Britain is, in fact, where Man U gets lots of supporters froim.

Wigan is Wigan too, an iconic name in RL. Salford is a SL giant in waiting and, as DM says, once its new stade is up and running it'll be one of the premier names in the game.

I was certain it'd be in this time around but that was based on my incorrect belief the stadium would be ready sooner than it actually would.

I've changed my bet to CC and Widnes now, but hope they have the balls to throw out one of Cas or Wakey in favour of TO.

 

[roughyedspud]

http://www.visitmanchester.com/images/pdfs/GreaterManchester.pdf

here

 

[cumberlandsashes81]

http://www.visitmanchester.com/images/pdfs/GreaterManchester.pdf

here

Thanks for that - very educational...! Interesting how while one "suburb" has an RL team but the next one over doesn't... and in the middle of all that there's Sale Sharks for some reason.

 

[Evil Homer]

once it gets built, salford will not only be one of the biggest RL clubs in england, but also the world too.

© Steve Simms 2004 :lol:

 

[dallymessenger]

© Steve Simms 2004 :lol:

why do i think you are a Hull KR fan.

or is it widnes?

 

[Evil Homer]

why do i think you are a Hull KR fan.

or is it widnes?

I'm a fan of neither club. First and foremost I am a fan of the game and then a Huddersfield supporter, and FWIW I'm supporting Salford's inclusion.

Point is, that 'biggest club in the world' stuff was an absolute load of garbage. No stadium can turn a small club with average crowds into the world's biggest, Simms' plan was based on some kind of 'super casino' that was obviously never going to be built, and according to that 2004 speech at this point Salford were going to be top of Super League having won it last year, and their team would feature stars such as Craig Gower and Anthony Minichiello playing in front of 20,000 each week. I'm not even sure if they've broken land on their new stadium yet.

 

[dallymessenger]

I'm a fan of neither club. First and foremost I am a fan of the game and then a Huddersfield supporter, and FWIW I'm supporting Salford's inclusion.

Point is, that 'biggest club in the world' stuff was an absolute load of garbage. No stadium can turn a small club with average crowds into the world's biggest, Simms' plan was based on some kind of 'super casino' that was obviously never going to be built, and according to that 2004 speech at this point Salford were going to be top of Super League having won it last year, and their team would feature stars such as Craig Gower and Anthony Minichiello playing in front of 20,000 each week. I'm not even sure if they've broken land on their new stadium yet.

the stadium will still provide the revenues for the club to firstly become one of the biggest clubs in SL.

after that, well see.

they are in the right area with lots of potential.

their crowds are very good atm in NL1 and with that new ground should hit 10,000 pretty quickly.

they have said construction is on track. the land needs to sit to allow the contaminants to get out of the soil.

the richest SL clubs are leeds, wigan and then st helens. i can see salford matching them fairly easily in their new ground

they already got lots of good sponsors involved.

the new ground will be the catalyst to turn them around.

apparently your clubs gates were below 1000 at farttown and from that they are now closer to 8000.

new grounds do that and help clubs to have a stronger business, hence better playing squad

 

[bowes]

Doesn't England have enough teams, why should Salford get the nod?

(sorry if this has been answered previously).

1. There's only three teams in Lancashire, which is not enough given the fact that there are currently 7 in Yorkshire, which is just a fluke for this season in SL, never before has the proportion between them been this different and it wouldn't be next season with promotion and relegation.

2. With their new ground they'll have a better bid than some of the Yorkshire teams already in, so one of them should be dropped before Salford get rejected

3. Why should they be left out just because they happen to have had a bad season in one arbitrarily chosen season (last)

 

[bowes]

and wilson was a dope to compare them to PSG. they are in the heartlands for one.

A bit of a stretch to class a major city club getting 1000 to matches and losing to village teams in the heartlands. Semi-heartlands I'll give you, but that puts it roughly half way between Catalans and Paris

 

[dallymessenger]

A bit of a stretch to class a major city club getting 1000 to matches and losing to village teams in the heartlands. Semi-heartlands I'll give you, but that puts it roughly half way between Catalans and Paris

they are exactly like UTC were prior to getting into SL.
they will be massive in SL.