Mark

I did query on twitter last week where Whitehaven sent a tweet out celebrating National Womens Day, while also saying they had selected him for the squad against swinton in another tweet. I was told by A Whitehaven fan to keep my nose out as I didnt know the full facts, I said the court case pretty much presented the full facts. I didn't get a reply after that! Its bad on the RFL's side not to immediately ban him once he pleaded guilty as they would have done in Australia, and Whitehaven have just said they accept the verdict, bad all around as people have already mentioned.

How did Lapori and Hammond play?

Yes good luck, it’s terrible to see clubs in trouble, we have been there often enough ourselves

Actually any company should predict in their cashflows that late payment of creditors will occur, no company has 100% of people paying on time

Trafford is a seperate council, both Old Traffords come under them and not Salford

I live in the City of Salford but am a Swinton fan, can kind of see both sides of the arguement. Salford already struggles to maintain an identity as a city from Manchester, most of my friends when asked,say they are from Manchester to people from outside the area. So I can see the councils viewpoint of they need a quite high profile team to promote the area and in thoery the team should bring a lot of benefits to the area. Unfortunately interest in RL seems to have dropped in the area as the beast that is Football is taking over everything these days. Folly, Eccles and langworthy try their best and are very good amatuer clubs. From a personal viewpoint though, council tax is going up 5% again, services are getting cut left, right and centre, so should the council be throwing money down a blackhole where they dont get any payback? Also as a Swinton fan we got nothing as they just wanted to build houses on the ground and as a town, we have lost our identity and all our facilities in the town as the council just pour their money into vanity areas like Salford Quays and the media hungry Mayor of Salford just wants a nice picture in the paper of himself so he looks like hes doing something

Swinton still haven't released their replica shirts to buy and we haven't had an update of when they are available, bit of a shambles really

According to my dad I went to my first Swinton game in 1977 when I was about 3, he used to take me and our kid and let us run around the ground in a race and then say he hadn't seen who had won so send us round again! Don't think you could get away with that now, but at least we weren't fat as kids! Still got my season ticket after all these years and countless grounds, amateur's wise its Folly Lane. I lived about 400 yards away from both grounds growing up.

Couldn't make yesterday but I am led to believe it was a very professional performance and nice to see Hammond standing out. Agree with Hall, he has looked so much better at 13 this year and if we can get Stevens form Saints i think he could have the impression that Delaney did last year

https://swintonlionsrlfc.co.uk/news/brad-swaps-cairns-for-swinton/ Swinton have signed Brad Hammond, Karle's son, looked good in preseason and is in the squad for sunday

I thought there might be a bit more action after our excellent start to the season

It is a lovely set up you have and you made our fans feel very welcome, good luck for the season

Have you not signed Hallet up again? Rated him at Swinton

Any decent pubs near the ground? Got a mini bus coming down from our local pub in Swinton and we are planning on getting there around 12-12.30

Played well though

Not really, the only one I can find is an Australian centre from Manly

As a Swinton fan, I don't think I have ever been to a Rochdale game where they had more fans then us! I reckon it will be 2-1 in your favour in terms of fans and 46-12 in terms of on the pitch

Our squad Swinton looks a bit thin so you would expect so, it worked for Delaney last year who started the season at Swinton and Roberts was coming along nicely till his injury.

Happy New Year everyone, whats everyones wishes for the new season? Mine are 1,Improved social media from teh club 2, Improved fan communcation 3, As long as the team try their hardest, we know we have one of the smallest budgets in the league so not expecting miracles

My first favourite player was probably Alva Drummond, Dessie's brother, he was quick as lightening and would have been a great player, if he could have caught the rugby ball! Danny Wilson was also up there, still probably the most naturally gifted player I have seen

He was my first favourite player that didnt play for my team alongside Harry Pinner, wish we still produced players like that, although we may do and its coached out of them

He also appeared in the film version of Sherlock and has been filming Brassic lately

Swinton said on Sunday they were going to release news about a pop up stall on Monday, they didn't!

Swinton have said their shirt isn't available till the 26th Jan, therefore missing out on all the xmas trade. Blaming it waiting to sign commercial contracts, if it takes 2 months to sign those contracts we are in trouble. I take it we scored 0 in fan interaction on the IMG ratings as we seem to show blatant disregard to anyone that isn't in the Chief Exec's inner circle when it comes to communication. We are apparently releasing some new training gear, they said on the 25th Nov there would be a pre-xmas pop up shop announced shortly, that's usually in the chief exec's local, but the only sign we have seen is when one of his drinking pals put a picture of himself on social media with a new training top on. Oh and don't bother looking on the website either, apart from a post 3 days ago about the AB Sundecks cup, the one before that is 3 weeks ago. We don't even mention yesterdays fixture release.

I once commentated on the Moscow team playing against Swinton for Channel M, it was a nightmare apart from their number 11 who was called Smirnov, for some reason I got his name right every time.