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Post by Chico on Mar 4, 2024 10:56:36 GMT
Apparently, NFL pitches are five yards smaller than RL Pitches, or was it metres. Yes, the NFL standard pitch length is 120 yards (100 yards + 10 yards for each zone). This converts to 109.75 metres. The NRL/RLEF standards for pitch length is 112 metres, but is allowed to go up to 122 meters (133.4 yards). It was possibly a similar experience to playing at Wheldon Road or Old Trafford.
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Post by Chico on Mar 4, 2024 10:45:17 GMT
There were 4 tiers: - Owner – £100
- Owner+ – £250
- Founders’ Club – £1,000
- Presidents’ Club – Min £10,000
Owner benefits: - One Vote
- Physical Share Certificate
- Eligibility to stand for election
Additional Owner+ benefits: - Access to exclusive club partner offers
- Exclusive Owner+ Open Days
- One-Year RDTV Subscription
Additional Founders’ Club benefits: - Founder’s Welcome Pack
- Invite to Founders & Playing Squad 2024 Team Photo
- Exclusive Founders Events
- Discount on function room hire at the Salford Stadium
- Special priority draws on ‘money-can’t-buy’ experiences
Additional Presidents’ Club benefits: - Tailored your package appropriate to contribution
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Post by Chico on Feb 27, 2024 10:27:49 GMT
Rumour on Twitter that Bullock is off to Hull FC on loan.
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Post by Chico on Feb 20, 2024 10:22:51 GMT
Fixtures are always subject to change but It was well-known back when the fixtures came out that the London Marathon was scheduled for that Sunday. This should have been sorted out in November.
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Post by Chico on Feb 9, 2024 9:30:41 GMT
Would you extend that to the Dally M medal too? I know this might sound odd,but I very rarely watch NRL coverage. Secondly, I have no knowledge of who Dally M is or was, No doubt someone who was extremely talented for his club & country I'm guessing many RL fans ten thousand miles away in Sydney. Dont have much knowledge of Great British former RL Players. And that’s fine. These kind of remembrances are probably just not for you. What I’m getting at is that the Aussies, and I’d extend that to the US with awards named after Cy Young and Vince Lombardi, huge names in their day, probably wouldn’t muck around by removing them anytime soon. But perhaps there should be a limit; I’d suggest longer than living memory though. With the fullness of time, when we might know about what causes or contributes to MND, the Rob Burrow award may be more a reminder of a period when we were reckless with the health and wellbeing of the first generation of full-time professional players. Who knows?
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Post by Chico on Feb 8, 2024 19:21:07 GMT
If RL supporters of a certain age have to look online to see who Harold Sutherland and Roy Francis are ,then the award should be renamed every few decades. Sutherland, to me, is the name of an aircraft that my grandfather accidentally set fire to and destroyed in 1944,and Roy Francis isn't he the " I could crush fellow dads," Would you extend that to the Dally M medal too?
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Post by Chico on Feb 8, 2024 12:38:48 GMT
I’m not sure whether the names should change on rotation. I understand the argument, but the point of using their name is that we remember them for a particular reason, not whether they are still valid within living memory. Lance Todd, for example, was not only a great coach and player but he was also the ‘voice’ of rugby league in the late 1920s and 1930s – the Eddie Hemmings, Ray French, Eddie Waring of his day – around the time when the Challenge Cup became a fixture at Wembley. That said, the reason behind Harry Sunderland’s name being removed from the trophy isn’t necessarily to do with the passing of time. Sunderland was a contemporary of Todd and a main driver behind the Lance Todd Trophy concept. However, there has always been the allegation that Sunderland was racist, coming from his alleged treatment of Roy Francis when he was coach at Wigan. Francis was moved on and remained a very good player, but as a coach, Roy Francis is somewhat of a legend – arguably the closest we have to Jack Gibson – and in recent years there has been a campaign to remove Sunderland’s name from the Super League MOM award in favour of the Roy Francis Trophy. I suppose this was considered but they’ve decided to go with a more contemporary name we also shouldn’t forget in Rob Burrow.
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Post by Chico on May 6, 2021 16:31:34 GMT
AJ Bell Stadium, Wednesday 19th May 2021, 6pm start
Limited to a little less than 1,000 – ballot rather than first-come first-served.
6pm – Paul King welcomes the team onto the field for a 40-minute open training session.
6:40pm – Club Cheerleading team “ The Red Angels” are back for the interval entertainment.
6:55pm – Salford Academy 40-minute game
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Post by Chico on Mar 19, 2021 12:43:40 GMT
Just to add to what has already been said: the nickname probably wasn’t bestowed on Salford by French journalists but, as Hillbilly Red alludes to, was a marketing ploy from the beginning. Whether it was forged by the French RL, Lance Todd (who Robert Gate suspects has a hand in it), Harry Sunderland, or a combination of them, I don’t know. Sunderland was invited to join Salford during that tour and reported back to at least one Australian newspaper, if not a syndicated Australian press. He doesn’t refer to Salford being labelled the Red Devils shortly before disembarking, but does so later on. As to how Manchester United got to using the nickname, I can’t comment on the story earlier in the thread about the French soccer team and what not. But what is certain is that United were known as The Red Devils before the Munich air disaster. We are still talking 1950s before mention of it in newspaper reports and promotional material, but whether this was something that happened over a long period of time, organically, as many Salfordians were United supporters, or whether it was appropriated by Busby, I couldn’t say. I did contact a promiment French rugby historian about whether the nickname Red Devils was a trend or an inate descriptor for Francophone countries – going down the line of Belgian football team and numerous other French-speaking teams – and he said he wasn’t aware of one. Which makes me even less inclined to think the French journalists concocted this nickname, more that it was fed to the newspapers. According to Mike Rylance,the first game that the Salford club played on their tour was in Paris. The French journalists were the people credited with giving us our nickname Les Diables Rouges after this game. In the last 8 years Montpellier have attempted to play in The French National League and also Elite Division 2. They have the nickname Les Diables Rouges. True, French journalists were credited with it. But there is evidence to suggest that a journalist(s) didn’t come up with that name but were more relaying what was already attributed to the Salford team before the game. A further issue is that it sounds very much like the story of how the Belgian national football team came to be nicknamed The Red Devils – a journalist reports on a game in 1905 and writes that the Belgians worked like devils, Belgium played in red shirts, and said journalist then starts referring to the team as The Red Devils.
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Post by Chico on Mar 16, 2021 14:38:49 GMT
Just to add to what has already been said: the nickname probably wasn’t bestowed on Salford by French journalists but, as Hillbilly Red alludes to, was a marketing ploy from the beginning. Whether it was forged by the French RL, Lance Todd (who Robert Gate suspects has a hand in it), Harry Sunderland, or a combination of them, I don’t know. Sunderland was invited to join Salford during that tour and reported back to at least one Australian newspaper, if not a syndicated Australian press. He doesn’t refer to Salford being labelled the Red Devils shortly before disembarking, but does so later on.
As to how Manchester United got to using the nickname, I can’t comment on the story earlier in the thread about the French soccer team and what not. But what is certain is that United were known as The Red Devils before the Munich air disaster. We are still talking 1950s before mention of it in newspaper reports and promotional material, but whether this was something that happened over a long period of time, organically, as many Salfordians were United supporters, or whether it was appropriated by Busby, I couldn’t say.
I did contact a promiment French rugby historian about whether the nickname Red Devils was a trend or an inate descriptor for Francophone countries – going down the line of Belgian football team and numerous other French-speaking teams – and he said he wasn’t aware of one. Which makes me even less inclined to think the French journalists concocted this nickname, more that it was fed to the newspapers.
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Post by Chico on Sept 10, 2020 12:07:53 GMT
I've often puzzled over this. I understand the Haka and other indigenous peoples performing their cultural war dances but never really understood why the Aussies did this. It looks, frankly, laughable. Like line dancing. Anyone know the story behind this? I'd love to know why.
The general reason is that it was popular with English crowds and became an expectation, or a marketing tool if you like. Then as the decades rolled on it became a tradition that most people had forgotten the roots of. 1967 is a key year for indiginous Australians as they became citizens by law, and as freedoms came back to them through the 1970s I guess the Australian warcry was viewed as culturally insenstive.
The roots of it are thought to be that New Zealanders who played for certain rugby sides, notably Newtown, in the early 1900s helped to create war dances for their clubs, and one of these was adopted by the Wallabies as a response to the New Zealand haka. It wasn't particularly popular with the players. However, when the All Blacks toured Britain in 1905, which was a very successful tour and huge for the growth of international rugby, their Ka Mate haka was a notable curiosity and seen as part of the draw. So, the subsequent Wallabies tour, and the Professional All-Blacks and Kangaroos tourists, also adopted this pre-match ritual. As time went on, tastes changed and it came over as ridiculous but traditions are hard to break.
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Post by Chico on Apr 3, 2020 19:23:05 GMT
It's not a bad idea. The Aussies trialed it in a match earlier this year. I think people would get used to it.
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Post by Chico on Oct 3, 2019 9:05:16 GMT
Ah I see. Good luck.
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Post by Chico on Oct 3, 2019 8:23:32 GMT
We hope to monetise the list so that we can raise money for the Reserves I might be able to help you with this. Send me a PM if interested.
As for the £1,000, perhaps having a product is the way the go. Let’s say an A4 certificate with a person’s name on it saying they are an official shirt sponsor for the 2020 season. I think it would make a good gift for the Salford fan in your life. Just make sure you set the profit margin high enough for potential sales, e.g:
£10 profit = 100 sales to goal £7.50 profit = 134 sales to goal £6.67 profit = 150 sales to goal
£5 profit = 200 sales to goal
Think about crowdfunding it using the all or nothing model. You’ll instill a bit more confidence this way.
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Post by Chico on Oct 1, 2019 14:22:42 GMT
I know this an old thing with Salford but are names and addresses being taken up target them for season tickets or special offers.
You’d hope so, but these days you need consent to be marketed to (legally). So, if I were to buy a ticket and then was asked whether I was happy to receive information in the future about offers etc., and I declined this, it would be unlawful for the club to send me info other than the game I purchased the ticket for. Good old GDPR.
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