Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:27 pm  

3rd rate ground for a 3rd rate club.

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:31 pm  

Well I will do my best to answer your frivolous comments.

We are tenants and the rent is Sky high. Moneywise Dr Kouhash loses an arm and a leg every match. We dont have a return from the drinks consumed, no say in the Catering. we dont have a proper club shop, we are totally restricted on what we can or cannot do including the Car Parks. We are doing our best with what we have in front of us.

Its easy to sneer but next time be more positive I always thought RL was a Family game. The big screen for instance is a good idea.

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:32 pm  

Early Bath wrote:

Well I will do my best to answer your frivolous comments.

We are tenants and the rent is Sky high. Moneywise Dr Kouhash loses an arm and a leg every match. We dont have a return from the drinks consumed, no say in the Catering. we dont have a proper club shop, we are totally restricted on what we can or cannot do including the Car Parks. We are doing our best with what we have in front of us.

Its easy to sneer but next time be more positive I always thought RL was a Family game. The big screen for instance is a good idea.

My grumpiness about is more the design of it more than ought else!

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:52 pm  

I swore never to return to that soulless place after our visit when it first opened, when we were forced to sit in our car for over an hour before they let us leave the car park.

With it being Sunday and with nothing better to do we thought we'd give it another go, but this time we parked on the approach road to the stadium for a quick exit.

For whatever reason it has turned out to be a dreadful stadium - it's like they spent all the money on one great big, shiny, posh stand and ran out of cash for the other three stands. The big holes in the corners let whatever atmosphere there is to escape and it just has a distinctly 'empty' feel about it.

We probably wont go back for another few years, or at least until we have forgotten how dire it is.

I'm not blaming Salford - more whoever it was that agreed the design or signed the lease on what are obviously ridiculous terms.

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:14 pm  

Fat Boy wrote:

I swore never to return to that soulless place after our visit when it first opened, when we were forced to sit in our car for over an hour before they let us leave the car park.

With it being Sunday and with nothing better to do we thought we'd give it another go, but this time we parked on the approach road to the stadium for a quick exit.

For whatever reason it has turned out to be a dreadful stadium - it's like they spent all the money on one great big, shiny, posh stand and ran out of cash for the other three stands. The big holes in the corners let whatever atmosphere there is to escape and it just has a distinctly 'empty' feel about it.

We probably wont go back for another few years, or at least until we have forgotten how dire it is.

I'm not blaming Salford - more whoever it was that agreed the design or signed the lease on what are obviously ridiculous terms.

We'll miss ya

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:06 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

It's an example of ambition over reality. Way too big for the needs of either of its tenants.

Salford/Sale could have got along quite nicely in something the size of the HJ, rather than this white elephant.

how would they have got along nicely in an even larger stadium ??? the AJ Bell holds 12,000, the HJ holds 15,200

not that I'm precious about you calling the HJ a small Ground........ its just not as small as many others....

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:14 pm  

Early Bath wrote:

Well I will do my best to answer your frivolous comments.

We are tenants and the rent is Sky high. Moneywise Dr Kouhash loses an arm and a leg every match. We dont have a return from the drinks consumed, no say in the Catering. we dont have a proper club shop, we are totally restricted on what we can or cannot do including the Car Parks. We are doing our best with what we have in front of us.

Its easy to sneer but next time be more positive I always thought RL was a Family game. The big screen for instance is a good idea.

Don't take the criticism of the stadium to heart. Not the Reds fans or teams fault. Everything I've read and heard about the stadium and the access to it suggests it it not a great facility. That's a shame as it will put punters off attending, it seems to keep the Salford fans numbers down, judging by your attendance figures. If the points you made about Salfords lack of control of the match day experience are true, I have to question who signed the deal and why. It must be hurting you financially and limiting your ability to support your on field renaissance long term. The club and its supporters ought to be petitioning the owners of the stadium to improve the match day experience and if you get no joy look for alternatives

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:23 pm  

They had a perfectly good stadium just off Weaste Road, just needed a bit of tlc and theydve been fine.

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:55 pm  

I'm sure koukash was saying this the other week

Re: AJ Bell stadium - How awful? : Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:10 pm  

Norman Stanley Fletcher wrote:

They had a perfectly good stadium just off Weaste Road, just needed a bit of tlc and theydve been fine.

Fletch - whilst youve been in Slade Prison you must have missed the news that the Willows needed £90k pa just to maintain safety standards -thats just for starters -there was no alternative but the good Dr is doing his level best to improve things - a new Road apparently will be built by 2017 to improve the Car Parking problem but
remember there are many other options to park - just read our threads.