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[cheshire cat]

Just a rumour at the moment but it looks like phoenix rugby club Wasps are looking to do a groundshare with Solihull Moors.

If it turns out to be true that might put paid to any pretty football on the Damson Park pitch.

[Saughall Robin]

So it'll be two-sports hoof-ball there then? 😎
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[Bangor on Dee Robin]

Rugby Union in a precarious place at the moment (just look at the amount of Rugby League ideas they import !).

Would we ever want to ground share with Sale if they returned to Trafford ?

[Hugh]

I don't see whynot as long as it's somewhere sensible (somewhere near Brooklands roundabout has been mooted in the past), it doesn't seem to have done Wigan any harm Whether we'd want to become a club like Wigan is another matter, but if we ever have ambitions to go much beyond the 4th division, it may be the only way.

[SW]

Rugby doesn’t suit small grounds with low hemmed in stands for obvious reasons. Sale still have Heywood Road which could be developed but as far as I know the Sharks club are fine in Barton.

[cheshire cat]

Sale Sharks in Barton are a completely different organisation to Sale in Brooklands

[Bangor on Dee Robin]

If Sale & Salford City get their way at Barton, Salford Red Devils will end up at Moor Lane, tiny tiny stadium. Does anyone remember Trafford Borough at Alty ?

[Sale Holmfield]

If Sale & Salford City get their way at Barton, Salford Red Devils will end up at Moor Lane, tiny tiny stadium. Does anyone remember Trafford Borough at Alty ?

I do, and they had a good first half of their first season before having to sell players, and then subsisting for two and a half years  under dwindling attendances before moving back to Blackpool and eventually folding. I went quite a few times the first season, then not till the third, by which time more or less only the main stand was in use.

Rugby league is much the better game, but I fear Moor Lane would still be big enough for Salford Red Devils' crowds.

[Mallorca Alty]

Just a rumour at the moment but it looks like phoenix rugby club Wasps are looking to do a groundshare with Solihull Moors.

If it turns out to be true that might put paid to any pretty football on the Damson Park pitch.

Birmingham/Solihull RU already play there. Midlands Hurricanes RL play there during the summer.

[HashtagAlty]

Somewhere near Brooklands round about, if they add Timperley village as a station on the Stockport line would be good.

[Mick]

Baguley station was two mins walk away......closed many years ago

[HashtagAlty]

Baguley station was two mins walk away......closed many years ago

Get it back open

[One Foot in the Grave]

Baguley station was two mins walk away......closed many years ago

I had a flat on the site of the station 15 years ago. Once you got used to the ICI trains in the middle of the night it wasn't a bad spot.

[Hugh]

Drax trains now!

I'm sure  there was talk some years ago of building one or two new stations on the Skelton to Stockport stretch, including in Baguley to link up with the metrolink. I suppose it's one of those projects that has gone by the board, like the reopening of the Carrington line, or the Western airport link from Mobberley/Ashley.

If they got the station, and trains at least every half hour, Brooklands roundabout would be ok.

[Sale Holmfield]

Drax trains now!

I'm sure  there was talk some years ago of building one or two new stations on the Skelton to Stockport stretch, including in Baguley to link up with the metrolink. I suppose it's one of those projects that has gone by the board, like the reopening of the Carrington line, or the Western airport link from Mobberley/Ashley.

If they got the station, and trains at least every half hour, Brooklands roundabout would be ok.

You are right. There was talk about a Baguley interchange with the Metrolink, along with some other stations, although I don't think it ever went beyond talk that it would be a good idea, which it is.

As for Solihull, Birmingham/Solihull Bees actually have their own ground at Portway nowadays out in the countryside south of  Birmingham, which they share with Midlands Hurricanes RL.