www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2778 Toilet rag.

www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2778 Toilet rag.

Exactly Dr K is a billionaire running - what must be - the worlds biggest training business. He has become a billionaire from growing a training company over 20 years. he has not done it from IT or high powered financial services or acquisitions and mergers. No it is through old fashioned 'bums on seats' training delivery. Amazing.

That a guy of this business ability would be in this mess is inconceivable. Indeed I imagine a big city law firm is currently preparing to sue the star for every inaccuracy. I wonder just how many inaccuracies they will find?

Cripes Ginger,that's exactly my fear too !

There was a copy of this floating around our office the other week and I had a quick scan.

I'd be ashamed ever to pick it up again, makes the RL content of the MEN seem like Pulitzer prize winning material by comparison.

Why do you think he should waste money on a big city law firm? What is the asset worth of the Salford Star?
The doom and gloom stories are very accurate - about 2 or 3 a year.[url=http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2488LINK[/url

What d'ya reckon? Should they 'throw the book at him'?

I’ve already posted my thoughts on Twitter. Absolute Joke of a publication that’s got a massive axe to grind with Salford RLFC, Peel Holdings, Salford City Council and Martin Vickers. There is obviously no smoke without fire and we don’t help ourselves as a club by giving them the ammunition to publish stuff like this, but boy they don’t half like to fabricate the truth a hell of lot, this particular paragraph would suggest exactly that:

“Meanwhile, reports are rife on social media of one player having to sell his car to get money, others not having the rent paid on their houses and many star players having major difficulties getting money owed to them from the club. An informed source told the Salford Star that the rumours are `mostly true'”.

I don’t believe for a second a player has had to sell his car and neither to the Salford Star because the rumours are apparently only ‘mostly true’. Why post them then?

I got offered a free one a couple of weeks back and told them where to go because of the constant tripe spouted about this club.

Have a look at what it says on the about us section of their website;

“We showcase what's ace in the City, dig up Real Salford Heritage, give new writers and artists a chance to express themselves, and get Salford celebs to contribute…”

Isn’t the City’s only professional sports team a great thing about the City? Don’t we have great ‘Real Salford Heritage’? Maybe they should try digging some of that up instead blaming the club for what they believe were mistakes made by the Council from which the rugby club has benefited.

Are but,what if its true.

Then get some proof and publish some facts

Could Salford sue them for an article like this? Fuming at their drivel on Salford RLFC

If the statements are false and Salford can prove it has affected their reputation then it could be classed Libel and therefore the club could sue

One might be a symptom of the other. If Companies House receive no accounts and/or communication, they’ll file a proposal to strike off. It’s not unknown for dormant companies to be wound up because their director(s) have forgot about them. So if this is the case, Salford Star are hardly likely to get a response either, whether they have a vendetta with Vickers or not.

The asset value of the paper is not the point. Dr K is a billionaire and would most likely donate the damages to charity.

A successful man like Dr K will surely value his good name, his integrity , his standing in the community and the image of the club?

If 'challengable content' is being turned out 2 or 3 times a year it is surprising that Dr K has not nailed it....yet.

Another abysmal article full of guesses and conjecture written on the back of total nonsense from social media. Any journalist putting together such articles should be locked up. Twitter is one of the worst things ever to happen to humanity... allowing any moron (and most people are morons) a voice.

Never a truer word spoken.

Ave it, I did not say it was true,I said what if it is true. The good Doctor will inform us one way or another.

Hopefully the docs latest tweet, puts this to bed.

"The club is in safe hands, f**k the haters"

Is an ex poster on here who is a quasi journalist anything to do with the rag in question?

Genuinely don't know if they are or not.

I would say that the answer to your question is yes.

I am sure that the attacks that were made on John Wilkinson (under a pseudonym obviously)came after John ran over his foot in the car park and now it seems that Marwan may have possibly upset this person also.

I doubt it this vendetta against the club has been going on for about 4-5 years now. There will be reason or motive behind this and I just hope someone can get to the bottom of it. Salford rugby club is a business trying to attract new support and these kind of stories are very damaging. Do these people know just how much good the club has done and is continuing to do for the local community? It's disgraceful. This rag has never published one remotely positive article about the club.

Look,I think the Salford Star is reprehensible and the worst sort of left wing rag.
I hope the half truths are untruths.
I hope MK stays with us for 20 years.
At the other end of the propaganda spectrum,however,is your assertion that he's a billionaire and runs one of the biggest training firms in the world ( which,even if true,wouldn't make him a billionaire- do the maths )
Neither of these are important in relation to his ownership of Salford,or our progress,but we're in danger of replacing one set of journalistic claims,hopefully untrue,with another set which more suit our argument.

I can't imagine much of what has been published being true. However, just to point out, just because somebody appears to be very rich does not make them financially stable.

There have been plenty of millionaires/billionaires who have seen their supposed fortunes disappear as quickly as they built them... See a certain Robert Maxwell for a good example.

Just out of curiosity and not being a local, what exactly is the Salford Star and what's its problem with Koukash and/or your club?

It's one of the doc's future named horses and it's head is going to end up on someone's pillow.

It publishes as much tripe as possible against us because of the stadium financing/public money invested into, and basically has a massive downer on everything Salford RLFC related as a consequence. Nearly all of which stems from the previous administration, but they seem to have a beef with the new administration too.

https://twitter.com/drmarwanK/status/608679292004888577 Disgusting comment from your owner, no class

https://twitter.com/drmarwanK/status/608679292004888577 Disgusting comment from your owner, no class

Koucash has no class and really did not to react in such a way. Most in the RL community are seeing the article in the Salford Star for what it is; gutter journalism, so Koucash would have been better taking the moral high ground rather than resorting to the same gutter.