rugbytweets.com/salford_city_reds/news/755476 Signed for Leeds on a 3 year deal Great start for our new owners (whoever they are and whenever they appear!) where's the ambition, the vision, the plan for us to improve if we can't keep players of his calibre?

rugbytweets.com/salford_city_reds/news/755476 Signed for Leeds on a 3 year deal Great start for our new owners (whoever they are and whenever they appear!) where's the ambition, the vision, the plan for us to improve if we can't keep players of his calibre?

So you blame the club for a lack of ambition

Obviously you dont remember the player taking the club to a tribunal at the end of last season because he wanted out of his contract! Joel moon is a very good player no doubt but if he dont want to play for the club we surely are better to get him out and get a fee for him. This upcoming season more than any we will need players who cant wait to pull the Red shirt on. I think given a year or two our club will be where its at and players that are currently jumping ship will regret it.

Yes, I do blame the club - you have to provide an environment as a management team to people want to be part of. Clearly the shambles of recent times hasn't done that for Moon.
I don't blame him for wanting out, and certainly if the champion club come in with an offer then any player is going to take that seriously
BUT - if SCR are to progress we have to have a club that players want to stay with - choc I agree with you on that!!

I dont blame the club,whatever the enviroment the guy signed a 2 year deal and didnt want to see it through a bigger club came in and dangled bags of money in front of him and so he wanted out (cant blame him for that) but it cant be clubs fault thats sport. But as i said we only want players who want to play for this club.

I'd hope that's the last obstacle before the takeover is announced.

Looks like Gleeson with his experience might be the ideal solution.

Just what ambition do you expect the reluctant new owners to have? Personally I think the main focus will be about dressing it up, adding a few cherries on the top and prominently displaying it in the shop window, in hope that another mug takes it on. I really hope I’m wrong but only time will tell.

Does anyone know how many games moon actually played for Salford as he seemed to be injury prone.

Why is the Salford club acting so dysfunctional?? I read on the Facebook wall and see so many disillusioned supporters. Why is the club acting like this?

Its simple fans have never mattered when comes to are club even castleford had the decencey to meet with there supporters are fans just get banned for having a view

so who's next ?

Adam Sidlow
Danny Williams
Jodie Broughton
Theo Fages

Moon sounds like just one of many :-
Phil Clarke ‏@PhilClarkeSkyS
Transfer rumours after transfer rumours today... Mainly coming from near the Barton bridge... #rugbyleague

Martin Gleeson will sign for Salford to plug the gap

Who's gonna play 6 now?

Or 7 even......thages and sneyd

I think the Club does care, it just doesn't know how to go about it in any proper way. Incompetence is the big issue here.

...ES it's 'Our' BTW.

Ask yourself why he wants out. Ask yourself what environment could possibly have been created around the club in order to make him "want out" so much. Ask yourself what's going on around the club at the moment to make so many supporters feel disillusioned. Then think again about who is to blame. If supporters don't want to be here next season, why on Earth would an extremely talented player who can get a better offer at a successful club?

If the lad had signed for Castleford or London (No disrespect) I could understand the point but he was wanted by the Superleague champions on a 3 year deal. Tell me any player playing for a bottom 4 team who would turn his nose up at the chance of playing for the champions with an extra 2 years of job security? This is just another poor excuse for certain people to have a pop at their own club, fuelled by frustration over the takeover.

The more that these kind of players leave the club... the keener I am for the start of the new season. I like the idea of seeing a group of players working hard to achieve something when written off.

Brilliant speech here from Phil Veivers. Well said. www.reds.co.uk/rugby-news/veiver ... -committed

Brilliant speech here from Phil Veivers. Well said. www.reds.co.uk/rugby-news/veiver ... -committed

The problem I have is that the players that seem to be nailed on to sign igf we get taken over smack of more of the same old.The more I hear about this situation the more it all seems to be about a holding position or simply a case of having a team of some sort.It doesn't seem to suggest a resurgent new start.

Good point , if there's one silver lining the squad remaining will have ridden the rough times with the fans and be deserving of our best support.
they're going to need it !
I have no doubt we'll be written off as the basement club,rightly so after this spiral of negative publicity and uncertainty a season on from the McRae- Parish farce
We've no experienced half backs or recognised Goal Kicker.
the Players let go or left were responsible for over 50 of the 110 SL tries and 47 try Assists , + the majority of breaks that got us into positions to set up these tries.
we're well into the preseason and what players Veivers may be able to add will therefore be a month behind on conditioning and on field tactics .
22 working days to Christmas and our 1st Pre season game is a little over 5 weeks away with..

The state of this club why would anyone be daft to want to put money in. The fans just want the truth and club just want are money. They were never going to get 8,000 fans are in dreamland as the club never challenge for out. Also friday night rugby is the worst idea ever said. Also people ask for things and never get reply on email why would anyone want to invest in poorest run club in the league. I know people have paid and ordered season tickets that are concerned now to weather they will get there tickets. The club are ignorant when it comes to its supporters

Maybe like many investors in business they see potential and can get the club on the cheap.

Lets face it, get a few key backroom staff and this club could be transformed.

In fact many fans on here could make suggestions to improve both the income and relations with the fans.

John Wilkinson and Howard Clague have done so much for the club but a time comes when we need new blood and ideas.

That time is now before this situation distroy all the passion and goodwill fans have.

As an outsider, I fail to see how this is the clubs issue. Moon comes to Salford of his own free will, signs a 3 year contract of his own free will and then takes Salford to tribunal to get out of that contract. If I sign a 24 month contract with talktalk, then take them to court a 1/3rd of the way through for wanting to get out, I would expect to lose.

So what does he do next says he is homesick and does not come back to train. I'm sorry but that's not the sign of a professional.

Salford have done the best for the club, they have got some money in the bank for a player who was effectively looking like going on strike.

I like the comment about Leeds being closer to Sidney than Salford.

It's fine for fans to throw their hands up and say we need x,y and z, ie we need new investors, but just because you want it, it does not mean it will happen. Surely Mr Wilkinson is not wanting to lose more and more money, who does??? Does Salford have a long history of potential investors being turned down, or is it just very hard to attract them.

As a Saints fan our own Mr Mac gets grief despite him and his fellow board members bankrolling our club through our losses. I'm sure if someone else wanted to pump money into these clubs the chairmen would gladly allow it to happen as it would take a huge weight of their shoulders.

You may as well bang your head against a brick wall with some of our fans, bewareshadows.

Your post reeks of common sense.

Shame most of the cretins who paddle the same old stuff will just ignore you.

Would you mind not coming on here and making too much sense it’s strictly frowned upon. This forum is for excitable, frustrated keyboard crusaders who like to criticise, villainize and slander absolutely everything do with the running of Salford City Reds.