37 replies to this topic

[PaulT]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...league/19464098

[marshy1]

Fantastic news. just confirms who is the puppet master now down at the City of Salford Stadium.

[welsh lion]

Yes like the rest of Super League, it's Sky.!!!!

[PhillH]

I know it must be difficult, but please contain yourself Alan.

Unfortunate news for Salford yes, but Swinton Lions supporters are hardly in a good position to crow about this one.

[AlanE]

They might as well play at the LSV - they train there all week!

[Jonty]

I'm not the most sympathetic person when it comes to Salford, but that is appalling. I real feel sorry for the fans and even John Wilkinson. Now they've finally got the ground after ten years hard work, they have been pushed out by a cuckoo in the nest. We can all have a laugh at Salford's expense, but this is bad news for rugby league in general.

[PaulT]

In Sales defence, they had Saturday pencilled in first. Salford were orignally going to play on the Friday, but got switched for live TV coverage.

[AlanE]

Absolutely priceless - "Salford to switch home match to Swinton!"

[mark richardson]

There really are some bizarre voices of reason on here
Since when on swintons forum is it a bad thing to laugh at Salford.?Stuff the wider picture!

[greengrass]

Sorry Mark I have to disagree with you this time, I could laugh at Salford's pitterfull situtation all day long

[mark richardson]

That's what I said!

[juliancaine]

SKY yet again ride roughshod over rugby league and its fans, i know its great to have a laugh at the pinks expense but in the long run things like this will affect us all. IMO rugby league is slowly but surely being ruined by sky and unless rfl headquarters get their heads out of their backsides it will continue.

Edited by juliancaine, 04 September 2012 - 08:58 AM.

[Blue Monkey]

SKY yet again ride roughshod over rugby league and its fans, i know its great to have a laugh at the pinks expense but in the long run things like this will affect us all. IMO rugby league is slowly but surely being ruined by sky and unless rfl headquarters get their heads out of their backsides it will continue.

Well said!

[greengrass]

sorry Mark misread you post ha ha

[marshy1]

Be Careful mark and greengrass or you'll be in front of the headmaster.

[greengrass]

Alan after all the years of abuse and sniggering I have took from them muppets down the road it would be worth the telling off ha ha.

[mark richardson]

I think rugby league is being ruined more by those people who like to think they are making a point by not going to matches at all.
Sky could show every game if we all turn up to support our team every week. It would make no difference.
This is a rare opportunity to rip the reds. Do you think they lament our bad luck?

[greengrass]

Course they do Mark, all I am waiting for now is for Salford to go into adminstration that will be icing on the cake.

[juliancaine]

last i heard the pinks were asking peel holdings to bail them out failing that, the MERRY men and cohorts will just plunder the NWDA or some other government quango and/or council coffers with no guarantee of monies being repaid. And as for them going into administration it wouldn't surprise me at all seing as all bar 2 superleague clubs run at an operating loss, and i bet if they did the pinks would be treated different to bradford too ie, 1 rule for bradford, keighley and other part rfl funded clubs and another rule for the pinks and other clubs this side of the pennines.

[Blue Monkey]

SKY yet again ride roughshod over rugby league and its fans, i know its great to have a laugh at the pinks expense but in the long run things like this will affect us all. IMO rugby league is slowly but surely being ruined by sky and unless rfl headquarters get their heads out of their backsides it will continue.

It was mostly Sky's doing that 'persuaded' British rugby league clubs to amend their names so as to sound as much like American football teams as possible in the belief it would bring the game (or rather Sky themselves) loadsamoney and lots of much needed razzmatazz.

‘Hawks’, ‘Bulldogs’, ‘Centurions’, ‘Rhinos’, ‘Wolves’, ‘Wildcats’, ‘Giants’ etc, etc, etc, - makes you want to throw up doesn’t it?

At least ours has nothing cheesy and phoney about it as we've been ‘the Lions’ since Queen Victoria was a lass.