Great signing, getting serious this, I think Salford could turn into the next Melbourne, I don't jest either, people will go on about their crowds, but in reality, they don't matter, once they start taking on the big boys, they will come back and new fans will be made too.

Go Salford.

Although slightly off thread it would not surprise me if your chairman gets called a vacillator.
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It does seem habit forming.

Perhaps the good signing by Salford is habit forming.

They'll breach the salary cap? You're probably right yeh.

And which part of any of them is not being open? The difference between Taylor, Paea and Dobson is that contracts were offered to the first 2 and talks had taken place. With Dobson, nothing has been discussed.

This here be the truth. I expect the bulk of the signings this season (and, for the benefit of those people who have decided Dr Koukash is a fraud, I will add 'if there are to be any') will be forwards. I'm always a tiny bit surprised we get linked with players like Chase and Dobson because, although they'd be welcome additions to the squad and probably better than what we have at the moment, I think (or hope) Marc Sneyd and Theo Fages could develop into a cracking half-back partnership given a chance.

Due to the draw of the NRL these days, Which will see very few of the best players even consider leaving, This is a good signing.

Its no shame not to have been getting much game time at Melbourne, They are a quality outfit and he will prove a good signing, The task they have (Not sure about his contract details), Is keeping the likes of Jodie Broughton to play outside the players like him and Gleeson.

A good first signing, And as said. Someone nobody had mentioned, Maybe all the smoke fired up in the press is masking some serious work finding players Brian Noble wants.

As for Dobson, Its common knowledge Hull Kr aren't exactly flush of late, And should the doctor keep knocking, The door will probably open.

Salford could really do to get Junior S'au over now though, Rather than trying to blood about 15 new players into the side in the off season.

From the footage on the website, does look to be a Carney clone .... and I mean that as a compliment. He'll also need someone to run off the shoulder of though; not many of those line breaks came from his doing ....

Not sure where he's going to fit in doing that defensive stuff though ...... that'll confuse the other Salford players if he tries to stop opposition players scoring

Encouraging for Salford fans to get a serious signing onboard after the insane amount of speculation thats been going around about pretty much every player going. He will be a good signing, anyone who has watched a bit of him will know that passing isnt his thing he'd rather try and run over the top of someone. If it works great if not he can look greedy but tbh his passing skills arent the best which might be why he takes this approach. Still, will be one of the better overseas players in SL next year id have thought.

Most Salford fans have been saying this for a while now. All the speculation has come from the Media, stirring agents, or opposition fans. It doesn't help that a lot of RL fans bought into the media feeding frenzy. Our Chairman has confirmed at least four signings with others still ongoing, but he wouldn't reveal names. I think Koukash and Noble between them know how the media works and have deliberately kept future signings under wraps.

Very good, that made me laugh. Not something us salford fans have done a lot recently

Yep, players like Sa'u and Tonga that have shown themselves to be strong performers in the past but have been absent for quite a while will be the ones still to come over; and those who see it as an experience, or a stepping stone between reserves and the NRL.

Good signing overall, I'd say it's a bit risky as he hasn't been playing well for a while, but players are obviously capable of recapturing that form when they have the time.

He would of been playing but probably in the reserves so he'll be still match fit. Saying that the NRL reserve grade probably matches the quality of roughly half of the SL teams, look where Rangi Chase came from, and he's playing for our national team now.

You can't just blame the media, Marwan was telling Salford fans that Rangi Chase was in the bag. And thats a long way away from the truth.

Steve Gill showed Cas fans an Email from Marwan stating he wouldn't be making an offer for Chase or Clark after expressing an interest.

Why would he go to the trouble of emailing Cas to say that when he's told the Salford supporters at a fans meeting the deal is 200% done?

And you really believe anything would really be done by email?

As I've said in other posts if Chase is staying put why can't Cas make a public announcement and put these rumours that have been going on for weeks to bed once and for all. This would surely give the Cas players and supporters peace of mind wouldn't it? It may not be Salford that he's heading but it looks to me Cas are trying to get him off the wage bill and get the best offer possible. There's no smoke without fire.

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so not exactly reserve as he was 1st choice for the opening rounds of the comp for the current champions. but Storm are sploit for choice in centres and it appears Will Chambers ( recently returned from a two yr stint with Queenslands Reds ) who seems to have taken over .

No smoke without fire and no Visa without convictions being spent, which won't be 'til something like August 2015. Unless we're planning to keep him holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy during the week, it's difficult to see how he could play for anyone but Cas.

I've read post after post about why he can't play for anyone else but it still doesn't explain why Cas can't just go public and put all these rumours to bed. If your star player is rumoured to be leaving it's surely very unsettling for everybody connected with the Castleford club.

Has he ?

Did He ?

At the Forever Reds Supporters Meeting AGM , he was careful not to mention any names " out of respect to their existing clubs " , just that ' 4 signings were over the line ' with hopefully more to come and they would be formally announced prior to the Leeds game on Aug 9th.
he mentioned 1 was a ' Salford Icon ' and 2 were currently in action in that night's Sky Game . lots of fans threw out names. though.

He's made no secret of his admiration for some of the better players plying their trade in SL and his ambition to bring as many to the club as finances allow and has presumably sounded out Chase & Dobson , Hansen , Whitehead to name but a few .

I'm inclined to sit back and wait to see who actually does arrive rather than jumping to conclusions.

I don't know the ins and outs of immigration law, but isn't it possible he could still go and play in Australia or New Zealand? Or France? Or maybe go and play union in South Africa?

It's what I heard and it's been quoted several times on the Turkey. I fully share your stance on sitting back and I'm certainly not jumping to any conclusions and getting giddy. I'm very level headed about our recruitment plans for 2014 and appreciate the difficulty Salford have right now in attracting the star names to Barton.

Very good signing. Will take more than S'au and Dobson to make them anywhere near a top 4 side, though.

Can't see us being top 4 next year tbh? Top 6 if the recruitment is right.

might scrape into the top 8 but noble was a big mistake