If that happens then the whole shebang will fold , they need to be competitive to draw fans from the heartland clubs , if the games are a foregone conclusion less will bother going

Malcolm Alker is still a player at Salford. Marlon Alker has been released.

Noble should be looking to take 2 or 3 players from top clubs reserve grades on season long loans or even 2- 3 month deals.

Brian McDermott has done great with this over the years.

There are players like darryl goulding, Karl Pryce and liam farrell who would be good additions on 3 month loan deals.

Aint hard to play well against Widnes

If you signed Stosic he would be the best prop at your club by far. Great hard working prop. Think Winterstein will really develop too, showed a couple of flashes of what he was capable of at Wakey but mainly due to injuries didn't get a good run in the team, will be interesting to see how he goes. In Martin you've got a very astute experienced player who is a model professional. Still think you will struggle but you should go better than last season.

On the plus side of things , moving to Wrexham increases the exposure of the game in the Principality.

They need to draw some paying home support to make a go of it.
Starting over again trying to attract another new set of fans is a big ask , probably too big.

Don't know what the local public think of the situation , but to me it appears that the venture is a way to keep the football club afloat as much as anything.

The club need to employ a bloody good marketking manager and also to get in to the local schoold with loads of free tickets. Kids will need their parents to take them.

The first game of the season against leeds will be a big event and should be marketed accordingly. I just hope you have signed enough quality to allow you to compete

Captain Dave,

I'm not digging at you for not knowing about population distribution in Wales. But we have a population of 3 million in Wales. 3/4 of this population lives in South Wales along the M4 corridor. That's 2,250,000 along 100 miles of motorway. The entire rest of Wales houses the remaining 750,000. So given that roads in rural and North Wales are often little more than donkey tracks with tarmac on them and that most clubs in any sport can reasonable expect HOME fans to travel no more than an hour to come see them, it has an optimistic catchement area of, say, 200,000.

So.... given that Celtic Crusaders had an average attendance of 3,500 in a catchment area of 2 million and generously factoring up interest from the gogs who have been denied much sport outside of a poorly supported football team that gets gates of 1,300, let's say that the Wrexham ANZACs will get home support of about 800.

Youy can add the loyal "THE Crusaders" fans who will be taking a minibus up too and you might get 806 home fans.

Here's hoping that the ANZAC games prove a draw to all the proper teams in SL (and Salford) so that the loyal new owner can achieve his stated aim of saving Wrexham FC!

As you can see, giving the ANZACs the Celtic Crusaders spot in SL is not exactly INCREASING the exposure of the game in Wales.

The bitterness is strong in you young Padwan