maurice wrote:
Swinton have about 5/600 fans - TWP 5/6000.
Swinton fans tend to pay for their tickets though !
I feel for Swinton, some rank poor management & decisions by past owners/boards & a nomadic existence, now playing in Sale for goodness sake.
In Andy Mazey the Swinton Club at least has a dedicated & hard working Chairman who engages not only with his own fans but Leigh fans & all visiting fans via forums, FaceAche, Twitter etc !
Swinton need to ground share in the Salford Borough with Salford, ideally in a new purpose built & economical to run modern stadia, however Salford can't seem to find a way out of their binding contract to the AJ Bell *if they have even tried*. Couple the aforementioned obstacles to very bad timing, Salford now have no cashed up owner, expansion taking precedent over established RL Clubs & seemingly zero chance of attracting serious investment to both Clubs this seems to be a non starter.
A shared stadium of approx 8k capacity in Salford, Club owned *both Clubs* with match day revenues from corporate & bar sales being kept by the hosts is the only long term route to financial sustainability & chance of success, you could apply the last part to Leigh also.
I hope both Salford clubs can turn their fortunes around.& become sustainable clubs for a century to come.
