How do you know that any money that we may or not get for any player will go directly into the boards pockets? when for many years the board have been keeping the club going out of their own pockets.(How much have you put into the club over the years)?

The season after we made the playoffs on the face of it the board did provide extra money on what the then coach thought was for better players only for the coach in his wisdom to change our way of playing with an influx of new players whose game was not the one that would have suited our type of play, Luke Dorn for one.

I am unashamedly pro JW and the present board as it is only by their efforts and generosity that the club is still functioning and where would you go in the present climate for more backers or investors?

If the club has no ambition , why would they have embarked on the new stadium project? which admittedly must have become a nightmare for the people who have invested their money in the project up to date, the reason that it has stalled has been well publicised and again JW, HC and others have stayed on board when they could have pulled out and cut their heavy investment losses.

I believe that JW, HC and others are decent genuine people and if they say we will get a new stadium and prosper, then we will.

You can’t win in a situation like this, how do you get players in without the money bigger crowds would generate but how do you get the crowds in without money to buy the good players? My biggest concern is we have players like Myler but struggle to keep hold of them so what position does that leave the club in if every time we get some good youngsters and then we let them go how can the club ever progress & move forward?

The stadium situation is the biggest joke since RL began & I for one do not believe for one second it will be built & if that’s the case we can kiss super league bye bye. Although if it did get built we would still have to rely on bigger crowds to get the money in as without the retail park where would revenue come from?

As for wilky there no doubting what he has done for us over the years & without him we could like previously said ended up like Swinton. What Salford need is a big injection of cash but that is by no means Wilkys fault so people should get off his back, has he cocked up with the stadium situation? I honestly don’t know what’s gone on behind the scenes so cannot comment.

Rubbish! Wanderers spent a fortune on new players in an attempt to fill the gap that Anelka left. Unfortunately, most of them proved to be gash and spent the majority of last year playing reserve team football (or at least deserving to).

Still, don't let that get in the way of your rant?!

How much money does each club get off the rfl/sky each year?

Woah, woah, woah, do you kiss your mother with that mouth?? Cahill, Steinnson, Mark Davies and Taylor were bought with the Anelka money and have been smashing for little old Bolton thanks.

However, if you were referring to Elmander and Rasiak then your point stands.

and another thing i never said it was the clubs fault for charging £17, just said it is too expensive, like every other club. And i bet it's not just me who know people who come every now and again but wont come all the time because of the price/ us usually getting beat!

No familiar with the history of Odsal redevelopment then?

I'll give you Matty Taylor, Cahill, Davies and Taylor.

However, I'll see your Rasiak and Elmander ... and raise you Riga and Smolarek?!



Go back to my original point, think we can firmly say that the Anelka money has definitely been spent ... whether wisely is another matter?!

In the ginger Mourinho we trust!!

Forget about Riga.. utterly useless. Point taken. Its always hit and miss when Garty gets a fax.

Back to the O/P. Think it would be virtually impossible to prove that any tapping up has gone on (if indeed it has). When any player at a club of our stature has a youngster performing well there are always going to be rumours about said player moving on. Bear in mind his agent is constantly in the press generating interest from other clubs and/or trying to get Salford to spend daft money on keeping Myler, so proving tapping up would be nigh on impossible should he sign for Wolves. Not sure his media messages are working, todays Myler article in the Mirror featured a picture of that talented youngster Karl Fitzpatrick.

Out of interest, could anyone suggest a sensible amount to offer Myler and his minder? I'd love him to stay but don't think making a lad in only his second season of top flight rugby is sensible.

for the benefit of jaymc9 and several of the other posters on this board, that is the REAL world. You should pay it a visit some time.

ok, scrub the finding 7,000 fans yourself, find us an investor?

nope? know no-one? move on then...

Dear Jaymc9 and ex-SalfordUni,

Mr Wilkinson has offered to sell his share of the club to someone who has the best interests of Salford RLFC as a priority.

Here us your chance. Like Mr Wilkinson, you will need some collateral but, from the evidence of your posts, you obviously live in a world of unlimited credit and boundless possibilities. Like Mr Wilkinson, you may expose your homes and savings to being taken from you but, again from your posts, I know you have the drive to see Salford in a fine stadium attracting 20 000 fans and making both of you huge profits.

However I feel that you may not want the criticism you direct to Mr Wilkinson. I'm sure that this can be overcome. As you have in public used your "right" to request Mr Wilkinson spend his own money, I feel that my request will lead to you spending your own.

Please now put up ....

Yours
HBR

and of course your so well known for your optomism aren't you ?

Dear HBR,

I'm [ialmost certain [/ithat EX.SALF.UNI was using irony in his post.

Indeed. I should've grown out of that by now but I'm loathed to responding seriously to some of our reactionary, clueless contributors.

does anyone know how much money we get off the rfl/sky or not? Plus from all the other sponsers that we have?

Not enough for you to come in as Chairman and put nought in to pay wages. 5 weeks for Salford come the Huddersfield match without ANY hom,e income.

of course i wont come in as chairman, i wish i had the money too and i would. The club can't of been running at much of a loss for the past 20+ years or JW would of been long gone and so would the club! I dont know how wealthy the guy is but he cant be that loaded for us not being able to spend the cap, which is why i persume the club cant be making much of a loss as others make out!

A Conservative average loss pa for a RL club like Salford over the 27 years JAW has been Chairman would be £100k. So the Directors in that time would have footed nigh on £3 million of debts from their own after Income Tax on their Savings and Capital Gains Tax on any second properties.

Look at St Helens - all their silverware etc and still they have a huge imbalance met by Directors.

My advice to anybody who aspires to join a Board of a RL club is ...........don`t.

In Wakefield case, that’s not always the way. With a year left on his contract Gaz Ellis was offered pots of money to stay, he went to Leeds for less money, in order to win stuff, and fair play to the lad. There is constant talk of Atkins & Brough been lured away. In fact this board is similar to Wakeys, what with player retention problems, poor attendances & lack of stadium development.

Unless of course that someone has Jaymc9's scrupulous grasp of the running of professional sports clubs...

I wouldn't know how to run a club, i'm just a supporter who questions our clubs ambition or lack of it. How have other clubs progressed over the years, like wakefield, cas and quins? We've just stayed at the same rubbish level apart from one season.

I agree with JAYMC 100% I love the club as much as the next person but some people on here wont hear a bad word against the chairman JayMC is a realist just because he has a different view its a case of all the people who oppose his opinion just gang up, bunch of s this is a forum after all not a who shouts the loudest wins the argument

Sorry bald fella u just proved my point puttin silly little pictures doesnt mean ur argument is the right one