As the succesful Rugby League World Cup brings down the curtain on a long season of Rugby League us Salford Red Devils fans can look back at a very eventful season.
The story so far...
The whole story read back sounds like a roller coaster of a thriller movie. The dooms day scenario in January, Dr Marwan Koukash arriving saving the club, making headlines both on and off the field from the "wow" comback against Hull KR, beating Huddersfield on good Friday to off field celebrations at the magic weekend when beating Widnes.
There has also been negative points which made headlines from having 14 men on the field v Castleford in the dying minutes causing us to losing the 2 points, Warrington players being hit by a plastic bottles during their celebrations and eventually finishing bottom of the pile in 2013.
Like all good movies the end inspires you to think that the best is yet to come in a sequal with Dr Koukash embracing our history with the " Red Devils" name change, bringing home prodigal son Adrian Morley and also signing current International players for the 2014 season like Rangi Chase and Gaz Hock.
The club should be congratulated on their recent visits to different parts of the city to drum up new support.
This seems to have had a positive effect with record breaking season ticket / merchandise sales both online and in the new club shop during a recent open day held at the stadium.
The stadium now equipped with a new state of the art gym for the players, a players room where team meetings can be held and a museum where objects from Salfords rich history can be viewed is a massive step forward.
The amazing plans for part of pre season training in the new year to be in South Africa shows how far the club has come in such a small amount of time.
I would like to thank all the players and staff at Salford Red Devils both on and off the field who gave their all in the 2013 season in such trying circumstances. Im sure that the 2014 season will be a totally different and positive experience for you.
The sound of success from a sound cloud
With all the positive stuff going on with Salford Red Devils over the last few weeks I got the opportunity to be involved in a new independent podcast about Salford Red Devils called "Devil in the detail" with Patrick Noone interviewing players and basically chewing the fat about all things Salford.
The link to the show can be seen below feel free to have a listen
https://m.soundcloud.com/devil-in-the-detail-srd/devil-in-the-detail-pilot
It was a very enjoyable experience and with positive feedback from listeners I look forward to further shows in the new year starting in January.
The future is bright, The future is Red
With the off season in full swing old salford would have gone into hibernation a long time ago waking up 2nd week in February.
The new "Super Salford" couldn't be any different when making headlines from Dr Koukash appearing on New Zealands top radio station promoting Salford / dropping hints we might be in with a chance of getting Sonny Bill Williams in a red shirt in the near future.
A possible cross code game against Sale sharks (which deserves a whole seperate blog on the positives and negatives of such a event happening and will get written) and rumours we are on the verge of signing Harrison Hanson son of Salford cult hero Shane Hanson from Wigan.
I have been dreaming for this kind of publicity all my salford supporting life.
Its such a breath of fresh air creating positivity around the club and on the terrace which can only be a good thing.
Happy Christmas and a Red New year
As this will be my last blog for 2013 I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year and thanks for reading.
