The 30's.

I blame Adolf Hitler, but for him our club would have dominated RL for years and we would be a much bigger club now with a more illustrious history!

Doesn't bringing Hitler up signal the end of the thread? Please?

Yep - that's the end - thank the lord for that !!



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GT,KOBW my "glory days" watching salford were from 1999 to 2005, its measured on how much fun it was following this great club the length of the country and back again and the adventures i had with my fellow supporters and friends rather than what we won, even tho we were promoted and relegated in that time which is exciting.

who do you think are biggest crowd will be against next season ,and will we get more coverage on sky ????????????????????????

Wigan, Leeds or Wire, and I doubt it, maybe we'll get one more game on sky if we're lucky, unless we get far in the cup.

What has this got to do with the origional quote on this post?.

. To me you havent got a clue who is actually coming. you have lost all credibility mate as far as i am concerned.

biggest crown will be wigan and no we will have 3 games

Can never understand why we only get 3 games. A few years ago Salford v Leigh in a cup game drew a TV audience of 21 Million on BBC grandstand.

Who at Sky actually decides the matches and how many times a team are on Sky? It just doesn't seem fair because the more you are on TV the more money you get.

im suprised mcrae doesnt have a say

if we played on sky as much as the likes of leeds and wigan did we'd probably make the playoffs every season because we always seem to play well. Well over the past few years we have anyway!

He probably does and convinces them not to put us on to save him any embarrassment if we were to get hammered! He's got a dwindling reputation to protect

we do seem to play better on sky until we on sky at the magic weekend but now its time to change i hope we get more time on sky next year even if we dont it wont bother me that much i will be at every game hopefully

Are you 100% sure about that mate??? When was this?

National League teams get much more TV exposure on Sky than we do!



The problem is the club are being sold short and its bound to have a detrimental impact on sponsorship when compared to other clubs who get twice or three times as much tv exposure as us. I'm surprised this hasn't been raised before because the person(s) responsible for selecting games are in a position to influence club finances and I question if it's being done honestly and fairly?

i think , wigan warrington or hull kr , will be are biggest gate possibably in the region of 9 thousand , depending if we blend together early on with so many new faces in the team , and if we do, and the results go right ,i feel we will get a bit more coverage on sky , but perhaps i am jusat living in hope





keep the faith

Early 1990's before Sky was big. I remember being totally shocked when I read it at the time. From memory it was a cold rainy Saturday afternoon in November. Everybody probably thought I can't be bothered going out in this weather and switched the telly on.

I'm assuming that there is a missing decimal point here. Otherwise this would be just outside the top 20 highest rated TV broadcasts in UK history!

21,000,000 !!!!!

Your havin a laugh, surely ?

I think you'll find that figure is extremely accurate. IIRC there was a bus strike in Leigh that day and no away fans made it to The Willows. 98.4% of the the viewers were Leigh fans

I don't know how they calculate the TV audience figures these days but in the early 90's the numbers were determined by the number of people spread throughout the UK with special channel monitoring boxes, watching a certain channel at a certain time. If 1 in say every 2 households who had a box just happened to switch to BBC grandstand that afternoon it explains why the figure published was so high. The figure may be total b*ll*x after all it was just an average estimate based on a small percentage of the population.



I too would be taking the p*ss and laughing about it if I hadn't read it for myself!

What I find surprising is that the figure you quoted was only slightly lower than the audience for JFK's assasination. Over the years I've heard many people claim they'll never forget where they were when JFK was killed. I have yet to hear anyone say the same of a Salford - Leigh Regal Trophy encounter.



Say what you wish about the way TV ratings are calculated (I believe it's no different now) but you'll never convince me that Salford v Leigh is one of the highest rated TV events in UK history. Sorry.

Oddly being to young I don't remeber JFK getting shot by the magic bullet but do remember being on the couch with a monumental dose of the 10 bobs the day of the Leigh game, think if you'd have timed my runns (pun intended) to the crapper that day I'd have been the fastest winger on the pitch.