Salford....

stuey

…..bailed out again. No wages paid again and financial help given. How long do SL keep on doing it. Kick em out!!

Matt

They’re making a mockery of the sport. The RFL need to take immediate action instead of putting their head in the sand and hoping it will go away.

They’ve mentioned that they’ll only be able to field 15 players this weekend, it’s not good enough and the longer this goes on the worse it looks.

yorky

apparently Salford are difficult to deal with regarding players for sale?

Hepworth

I think it’s the situation they’re in rather than Salford being awkward,they are clearly living week to week and only selling when they have to to make ends meet. There’s an interview on the Facebook RL banter page with a current player and they’re clearly being given the full mushroom treatment,kept in the dark and fed on bull****. If we are fed up with it you’ve gotta feel for those players whose livelihood is at stake. If it’s true the current owner group are trading from an insolvent position and are going around with a begging bowl to fund the deal the higher ups in the RL need to be having a good hard look at theirselves,it’s almost criminally negligent on their behalf.

Hepworth

…..and fair play to those Salford lads who ran their blood to water,lost cause or not you have to praise their effort,they were gassed with twenty minutes left,Sangarre was playing on one leg, props giving it their all for the full 80,a couple of youngsters were out on their feet and Brierley was a real leader. A lot of coaches would give their high teeth for a bunch of lads who put in that much effort. Even the Wigan fans recognised it when they went over in the last minute. The fact it was disallowed just goes to show you don’t always get your just rewards.

43sflyer

Hepworth Got to agree 100%, no luck at all. Well done to them all.

yorky

looks like Watkins is Leeds bound, no one available for us but plenty available for clubs who want success?

Matt

yorky

Confirmed. All very quiet too on what’s happening at the club. We’re 6 fixtures in now and nothing has been sorted either from Salford or the RFL.

I’d give them a deadline and if they can’t meet it then remove them from the league. Only downside to that is we’d be back on 0 points.

Hepworth

Another damning report in the papers,seems like the clubs potential owners are mired in a legal case in the U.S. They have next to no time to reach a solution and get the Salford deal across the line,players are due to be paid on Thursday and apparently some are threatening to walk if It doesn’t happen. The mess just keeps getting messier with the RL shamefully doing not a lot.

TheFirm

And it’s being reported that they only have 170k of this year’s central funding remaining. Unless the takeover is fully sorted by the end of next month (and i can’t see that happening) then they are highly likely finished.

Hepworth

TheFirm Afraid so,the article suggested they’d have to go into receivership which would mean automatic relegation,though apparently if this were to happen they have other suitors who are waiting on such an eventuality and would then step in to rebuild the club. Either way the futures not exactly rosey.

RaoulDuke

If they had viable suitors they wouldn’t wait until they have no players. It’s a mess but the rfl are partly to blame. Strong leadership wouldn’t have got us to this.

Hepworth

RaoulDuke There’s an in depth article in yesterday’s Sun which explains it far better than I can,couldn’t upload a link. Interesting read if you’re of a mind.

RaoulDuke

Hepworth I’ll have a look. Thanks

pirate

These new “owners” are not interested in RL. Its a land grab, thats all, and Salford RLFC will be seen as just be collateral damage

The RFL and IMG have a lot to answer for but the real blame lies with the previous owners spending what they didn’t have over the last few years

Gary Carter in the Sun is usually miles off point and is a bulls***ter

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