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I think MM has a point here

Wiithout being detrimental to Josh Vievers, his dad evidently has wasted a year's salary based purely on nepotism. I know we have the benefit of hindesight but when the signing was announced everyone knew this was a bad signing,no wonder the club is on it's knees in debt when they waste budgeted monies on nepotism rather than spending monies on benefiting the club in other areas.

don't think Michael Platt club trained tag would be the motive even though he made his 1st team debut with Salford in 2001.
He's only 28 and has 7 seasons of SL experience with Cas & Bradford , and the utility tag , he can cover Full Back , Centre or Wing if required, and he still lives in Manchester, Oh and maybe Bradford are willing to offload him for one of our forwards..
We're not exactly awash with cover in the backs -Nero- Gibson - Gleeson , anyone expect them to make it through the season unscathed? Platt , and a possible loanee Jack Murphy with only a couple of 1st team starts for Wigan. provide some cover.

I know this thread is for transfer rumours but this one isn't a rumour - Adam Walne has signed for Workington Town, it's on his Twitter page.

How can it be nepotism ? Did he replace Patten in the early part of the season when Patten was playing well and high up the table for the Albert Goldthorpe Medal ? No !
Was the young man willing to put on a Salford shirt ? Yes. Has he been prepared to go to 2 Super League clubs which were experiencing financial/off field problems at the time ? Yes.
Did he progress through the Wigan Academy ? Yes.
The young man has been prepared to drop down into the Championship at Whitehaven to continue to learn his trade;play in the Salford Under 20's in a pretty good 2012 campaign and not once has he gone public on any complaints about SCR.
He has the added facet to his game of goal-kicking which the first team suffered with.
He also goes about his game while he must acknowledge how good his biological father was and the pressure on him when selected in the first team.
He did score a try in France on what may have been his Salford Super League debut but I haven't verified that.
As a putative amateur coach,albeit one who is ignorant of or chooses to eschew the 'Respect' campaign with your insults on this forum to a supporter of the Sale club of another code,I will let you argue the nepotism nonsense with another coach who signed him to a Super League club [url=http://www.superleaguefans.com/wakefield-wildcats/2010/10/15/wakefield-sign-wigan-duo.htmlJohn Kear[/urlwho happens to be one of the most qualified coaches in the sport [url=http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/ssto/elite_sportsmen_lead_the_way.phpSTORY[/url

Did Josh Veivers ever let Salford down ? No !
Did the Wakefield supporters have a go at him at Leigh in the last game ? NO ! Only on this forum...

SCR - well said - there are some on this board who have such a bitter and twisted view that poisons anything they say - I've given up reading their posts!

Ryan McGoldrick is available. Good utility value.

We need to build with the future in stead of signing players near the end of there careers because in the end we would be wasting money on players again which won't benefit finances. Signing 30 plus players is risky and are more suseptable to injuries. Admittedly sign experience but we don't want to sign players near end of carer and try and bring youth and experience. At the moment rumours off transfers just looks like we are going down are usual line of dads army. That can't help finances when we did this in past they spend more time on treatment table. And that would be more costly in the plight are club is in.

Yeah, cos the last time we had a team with a 'Dad's army' tag we only finished 6th in the league

. Not sure we are - for the forseeable future - in any position to moan about the calibre of player we can attract. WE NEED BODIES!

I think you're right. It's a question of getting anyone in atm.

Nine weeks today we play Wigan in the Super League. By my reckoning we are about 7 regular first teamers down, with officially one newcomer. That team won 8 league games in 2012...

Wouldn't want him anywhere near a Salford shirt

So far we are linked with a guy sacked by his club
A big fat lazy ex Bradford and wigan player
Now McGoldrick when will it end

Perhaps we should count ourselves lucky we hav`nt been lumbered with Rangi Chase and Jordan Tansey.

What The Butcher said.

How can it be nepotism? Well i tell ya,daddy thinks sonny is the best player in the world.So,daddy,being the top man at the company,signs sonny toplay for him.Sonny then signs his son sonny the 2nd,who he thinks is even better than him to sign for him.Then along comes sonny the third who is a girl but no bother,she is even better than sonny the second ,who is her dad,so he signs her up,and he becomes her and she becomes him,so now we have sixteen players,to many.So he ,being sonny the er third sacks him who is him but really her,so he becomes chairman and she becomes vice chairman,then sonny the first,who is the coach,then signs sonny the 5th,there is no sonny the fourth because sonny the third ,who is a girl,does`nt want sonny the fourth ,who is a girl,to be victimised,so,sonny the 6th is really sonny the fourth doesnt like sonny the fifth,who is really sonny the third.So sonny the third and sonny the sixth,both being chairmen,sign sonny the seventh,who is their grandad,so,.......

Chase would walk into the current Salford side (fair point about Tansey though).

I'd liked to have seen us got for Spencer now he's come back, always looked like a very decent prospect. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20555295

I'd liked to have seen us got for Spencer now he's come back, always looked like a very decent prospect. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20555295

Indeed he would , I just happen to think the guy is ill disciplined on and off the pitch.

Quote ="Michigan red"I'd liked to have seen us got for Spencer now he's come back, always looked like a very decent prospect. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20555295'" With the greatest respect, how do you expect any player considering signing for Salford whilst they continue with a wall of silence surrounding the state of the club. Existing players taking proceedings against them for non payment of wages would make anyone think long and hard. The longer the current management continue with allegations of a takeover being imminent the more damage it is doing to your club. Totally unfair to the loyal supporters who after all just want to know where they stand.

Quote ="Michigan red"I'd liked to have seen us got for Spencer now he's come back, always looked like a very decent prospect. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20555295'" With the greatest respect, how do you expect any player considering signing for Salford whilst they continue with a wall of silence surrounding the state of the club. Existing players taking proceedings against them for non payment of wages would make anyone think long and hard. The longer the current management continue with allegations of a takeover being imminent the more damage it is doing to your club. Totally unfair to the loyal supporters who after all just want to know where they stand.

What next Marshy - will you be appearing on Mastermind - specialist subject "stating the bleeding obvious"?

Might do actually.

'I'd liked to have seen us got for Spencer now he's come back, always looked like a very decent prospect.'

When? he showed no glimpses of being a SL standard player. Not good enough!

Your linked with Karl pryce in today's Bradford paper.