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| Bit sad to see all this hostility so early on. I know I'm doing myself no favours here by posting but it is a shame.
As for the person who's rolling their eyes at us coaching at schools in Salford - you really can't win there, can you?
If 5 years down the line we did nothing in the eyes of Salford fans we'd be accused of playing in the ground, trying to take your fans and doing nothing for the area.
If we're trying to get active in the area, then we'll be accused of trying to brainwash your kids into becoming Union fans.
One of the things we got slated for at Edgeley Park was apparently putting no investment into the stadium or trying to get the locals involved.
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| Quote Shark J="Shark J"I'm not sure I understand the point about Wythenshawe here. Because it's a poor area, people should support Salford? Seems like you're putting Salford down there.
Wythenshawe is a Football area. It's a 49/49 split in favour of United and City and then the other 2%......Sale. I know this, being a Wythenshawe Sale fan. Lots of Wythenshawe folk get on my coach from Brooklands station to Salford City Stadium. Wythenshawe is nowhere near Salford, however part of Wythenshawe and Sale share the same boundaries. Brooklands, where Sale FC play (Heywood Road - where Salford U16s or something play) is in both Wythenshawe and Sale. Wythenshawe and Sale are also in the same boundaries when it comes to voting and stuff. We're just Sale's poorer Cousin. A sign was recently put up saying "Welcome To Brooklands, Wythenshawe" on Altrincham Road. That's sure to p!ss off those folk trying to sell their fancy houses on Brooklands Road.
In fact, Heald Green residents recently voted to get a sign taken down at their train station as it had Wythenshawe Town Centre on the platform signs. A few years ago Northenden folk were outraged because of the same thing. A sign said "Welcome To Northenden, Wythenshawe". That one was a bit odd as it's actually in Wythenshawe. They'd rather they were associated with neighbouring Didsbury.
So I'm not sure you'd want your club associated with here. You'd get looked down on more than you would for attending a Sale game
Speaking of which - saw 2 lads with Salford City Reds shirts at the last game of ours. Heroes in my eyes. No doubt they got a kicking when they left the ground though.
Before I get a telling off for a geography lesson, I was just confused as to why an area 10 miles away would be targeted as a Salford City Reds area. Most people in Wythenshawe wouldn't even know what Rugby is. In fact, they wouldn't know what Football was outside of the Premier League. You never saw a blue shirt around here for years and now City have won the league they wear nothing but the things, even if it's raining. Whenever I get a taxi to the station, the taxi driver never knows who Sale or Salford are. They only start to know what I'm talking about when I tell them it's that new ground off the motorway.
Edit - I understand what you meant. A cheaper alternative. It's a good point but then with 75000 people, in theory Wythenshawe Town or Altrincham FC would be getting some of their money every week. They don't though. That's what I was getting at with the Premier League thing.
Edit 2 - I assure you I don't say "folk" that often in real life
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Agree with most of you comments,i m o,you really have to be brought up in whichever code you end up watching.be it through your parents,mates or more importantly through the school you attend which play that game you prefer.also tv is a massive influence,be it with the challenge cup and your local team being involved or that crap served up every year called the six nations which i might add gets more publicity than even football.My love of RL began with my old feller taking me to the willows to watch the likes of Harry Council,Charlie Bott ,Jack Brennan,Paul Murphy,and the famous Ernie Critchley the willows manager.The team was crap,The likes of Swinton were then the big boys,and what a team that was,half time at the willows the players would walk around the ground with a blanket for you to throw your coppers in i suppose to pay them for their efforts,myu mates and i used to follow behind and pick up the halfpennies and pennies that had missed the blanket.Then came along you know who and changed our club into the finest most exciting team i have ever witnessed,and then along came you know who,them days will never return for a multitude of reasons but in my eyes the biggest one is moving from the old lady,that was criminal,to deny the fathers and sons and daughters walking to our yes our beloved Willows on a Friday night or even a Sunday afternoon to a desolate stadium that is`nt our home.I ask one question,would the chairman be looking to sell if his baby looked like succeding.In my eyes he sold Salford for the corporate dollar.
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| Quote Marshy1="Marshy1"You lot are so obsessed with Sale.....14 post pages. I'd be far more worried about the state your once "well run,debt free club" is. Most clubs have posted lists of retained or new players, nothing from your camp.
A statement made over two weeks ago stating new investors would be announced, yet nothing. The companies accounts not yet filed and yet your harking over whether or not Wythenshaw can add to your fan base.
Worrying times for one of our former great rivals.'"
Oh you are still alive, then. You still finding Sale being the "puppet masters" to be a wonderful thing?
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| Like I said...obsessed.!
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| Quote Marshy1="Marshy1"Like I said...obsessed.!'"
Stick to the Warrington forum in future son.
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| Quote Marshy1="Marshy1"Like I said...obsessed.!'"
I'll take that as a yes, then. And speaking of obsessed, you do spend a lot of time on here, don't you?
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