Originally Posted by SBWNik

I'd agree about the Chelsea comparison, you've been a sleeping giant too long.
You'll never get a succesful RL club with the Manchester name, the teams in red and blue that play wendyball are way too successful.
If you look around the towns that make up the RL ring around Manchester - Oldham, Rochdale, Swinton - their isn't the fanbase to support them. You need to get slightly further out to Leigh (yes, sadly I'm a fan. No excuse, I was born there!), Wigan, Widnes and St Helens and then over the Pennines to Hudd before you get anything approaching reasonable support.
Even Salford get pish poor crowds week in week out, although I've got to say that if I lived in Salford, I'd not want to rush down to see them get hammered week in, week out.