[Bulliac]

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:49 am  

Quite a number of Salford fans claim that the location and difficulty of getting to the ground is one of the main reasons why gates have fallen. If it's really true that local Salford people find it hard to get to then I can't imagine many Leigh fans turning up, to be honest.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:59 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Quite a number of Salford fans claim that the location and difficulty of getting to the ground is one of the main reasons why gates have fallen. If it's really true that local Salford people find it hard to get to then I can't imagine many Leigh fans turning up, to be honest.

Surely that's more of a local thing? The Salford fans used to live near the ground or on a bus route, now it's elsewhere that's no longer the case. If you have a car, the stadium isn't difficult to get to at all. Sure it can take a while getting out of the car park, but it's quite easily accessible. So the location of it doesn't really matter to Leigh fans.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:05 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Quite a number of Salford fans claim that the location and difficulty of getting to the ground is one of the main reasons why gates have fallen. If it's really true that local Salford people find it hard to get to then I can't imagine many Leigh fans turning up, to be honest.

Finishing work Friday night I got stuck in traffic for around 30 minutes.Location AJ Bell,Sharks at home.This location thing is a myth.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:37 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Quite a number of Salford fans claim that the location and difficulty of getting to the ground is one of the main reasons why gates have fallen. If it's really true that local Salford people find it hard to get to then I can't imagine many Leigh fans turning up, to be honest.

There's regular buses running from Manchester city centre so I don't understand how they can claim it's too difficult to get to home games with public transport. I live in Manchester and still manage to get to Odsal on game day..

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:21 pm  

Aye, but our attendances fell when we went to VP too. People are creatures of habit.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:48 pm  

DrFeelgood wrote:

It's my understanding that Salford have been in a bit of a situation ever since the council turfed them out of the Willows.

Sorry to rain on your parade buddy but .....

it is my understanding & the true belief of every Salford fan who has posted on RLFans that the RFL 'forced' Salford out of the Willows with the ultimatum that if you do not move to a modern stadia, criteria etc, etc, then you will not have a SL Licence.

This rightly angers Salford fans as they did not do the same to both Wakefield & Castleford.

Edit.

Or London, who haven't had a place to call home for an age & a day.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Wed Oct 26, 2016 7:38 am  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

Sorry to rain on your parade buddy but .....

it is my understanding & the true belief of every Salford fan who has posted on RLFans that the RFL 'forced' Salford out of the Willows with the ultimatum that if you do not move to a modern stadia, criteria etc, etc, then you will not have a SL Licence.

This rightly angers Salford fans as they did not do the same to both Wakefield & Castleford.

Edit.

Or London, who haven't had a place to call home for an age & a day.

The way Wakefield constantly conned the RFL with "Oh but we're moving to a new stadium" was bad. The fact the RFL kept falling for it when everyone could see how transparent the lie was, was worse.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Wed Oct 26, 2016 7:59 pm  

Thanks for tidying up my understanding Mr Centurions!

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:33 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

I think you'll find the original intention, as stated, was to prevent clubs going bust... and prevent Wigan winning everything, every year. It was a long time ago, of course, and there was also the odd bit of 'mission creep' along the way, IIRC]

As Eric Morecambe would have said "All the right words but not necessarily in the right order". The salary cap was introduced to stop Wigan going bust when they didn't win everything. They were definitely in queer street the year Salford knocked them out of the cup having already budgeted for their annual trip to Wembley. Then along came Tesco, well, "Every little helps" as they say.