There is also the allegation that some players have signed for Salford for contracts worth significantly less than they were offered by other clubs, alluding that they are being paid significant sums "off the books" outside of the club.

That's pretty much what's happened, yeah. And in addition to that someone on the VT is claiming that the court didn't exactly 'rule in Salford's favour' either. Tony was claiming for monies owed via the second contract. The court ruled that Salford rugby club didn't owe Tony anything, but that his claim against the other company was valid and the court ordered the second contract to be honoured. So essentially Tony got what he was after.

However I should point out that the poster on the VT didn't back this up with any proof so it could quite easily all be a load of nonsense.

Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like it's opened a can of worms. Koukash sounded so adamant on Twitter that the courts had already dealt with the issue that I thought i'd missed something. It'll be interesting to see how this one pans out but I can't see anything coming of it unless he's done a Melbourne and filed all the incriminating paperwork.

The courts didn't rule on whether the salary cap rules had been breached. That's a matter for the RFL.

Our experience at the Bulls will have shown the uninitiated how company law can be used to make anything look like anything, legally turn a huge profit into a huge loss by the stroke of an accounting pen, and create impenetrable fog around the smoke and mirrors that conceal any of the truth about what goes on. And even when the odd snippet comes out, six sides all deny it and claim a different story.

We also know that, in the end, not only do you never get to the bottom of anything, you don't even get to do much more than prise the lid off a little bit.

It's all legal, like the banks losing hundreds of billions while all taking millions in bonuses, and almost completely unaccountable.

Once some elements of the press would dig and drill and peck at stories until they got to the nitty gritty but frankly there is no investigative press any more, nobody seemingly gives a sh=#FFFFFF[size=5.[/sizeit.

The [url=http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2801Salford Star (as in this article|)[/url is one place that does try to dig into the complicated Salford morass, but while you can get quite a lot of information from reading their articles, it seems clear that they can not hope to get to the bottom of things either, with straight bats being played by the relevant parties.

What a bloody mess..