But on the other hand looking at another thread the likes of Keighley would be?

For all the faults of DR I wouldn't like us to get into a football situation where the haves can consistently and directly influence and manipulate other results in the same division by tactically placing their players against their rivals but not against themselves, Chelsea have operated this proxy team quite openly. Genuine emergencies are fine, but, it needs to be controlled, is it by the way? A sense of fairness must prevail particularly now that the spectre of relegation is back

I can still remember reading (in the days when I used to buy programmes) Brian Johnson's match notes for that night's game (the Lancs Cup semi v Widnes 89) =#0000BFI never use injuries as an excuse, they are a fact of life. I just get on with it

Salford have squad/young players. They'll have to be used.
Suspended players.....diddums. Don't transgress, then.

Seems like the "good" Doctor wants his own way again. I hope Hull tell them to shove it.

With my nostalgia head still on, I can recall a Warrington side in the early 80's, depleted of over half the side through injury, having to go AWAY to HullKR (who were THE club at the time) and managing to get a 9=9 draw.

I dare say Hull wont be charitable, as it's dog eat dog this season, with potential relegation on the horizon, every 2 points will be crucial

Deal with it

It's embarrassing for a pro club to not only ask this but to announce it on Twitter too is just dreadful. All that money and he hasn't bothered starting from the bottom up.
Get on with it drop the whinging mentality and keep your business in house and not all over social media.

Everything about that bloke just smells

I will be appalled if this is agreed. As somebody pointed out, three of these are suspensions.

Apparently, Ian Watson and Martin Gleeson are set to play this weekend.

Two fingers to all our haters. ....



He's the gift that keeps on giving. .....

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Surely that's a spoof.

Just proves that not all publicity is good, Marwan does himself and Salford no favours. Every club has suffered similar problems over the years but deal with it without the outpouring of garbage to no one in particular.

I don't really see much of a problem with asking for a postponement in the circumstances that would otherwise mean fielding a significantly weakened team, such:

a. Field a "youth" team - has a knock on effect to their competition, with players either having to play twice within a short space of time, or the minor game subsequently having to be postponed.

b. Spectators - if I were a Hull fan, I wouldn't be too chuffed at paying full price to see a weakened Salford side, so I might choose not to go, thus affecting Hull's revenue (likewise, if they feel the need to reduce ticket prices to compensate).

c. Competition integrity - yes, its tight at the top & bottom, a Hull landslide win against a weakened team might be detrimental to many with regards to points difference come the splitting of the 8/4.

But injuries are part of the game, you can't start postponing games because of it. Food poisoning wiping out the whole first team the night before a match maybe, but injuries to a squad can't surely be a good enough reason.

Wow. Just read that article in the M.E.N what an idiot. People are beginning to detest salford because of this clown. You made a request which Hull declined. Tough. The RFL do not need to get involved with this and blaming everyone under the sun isn't going to do you any favors. In addition, the reason the penalty count is so high is that your players are using dirty tactics week in week out. Look at Chase, banned for a stupid tackle. Salford are becoming a team which people want to fail and its because this fool is spouting rubbish to the press and on social media.

chase plead not guilty as well for that tackle. remember.

Quite hilarious that this is the person pushing for the marquee allowance but can't put a 25 man + squad together for the day to day games.

That is just astonishing.

Most clubs have a first team squad of about 25+ and an Academy of around 30 players and it is their choice if they deem those players not good enough to fill in.

He needs reminding it isn't NWC Division 6!

What a bizarre 'bullet-pointed' way to write a column?!

C-R-I-N-G-E........ doesn't get his way so plays the victim-card in a column that looks like its been written by a Primary School child.

Dr.Kockrash is an embarrassment to rugby league.

What on earth is that my 7 year old can write with better structure.
The guy and his victim mentality are embarrassing to this great game.

I'm afraid this is written by Neil Barker and not Koukash know your facts

To put your name to that drivel is just garbage, it's obviously a phone interview where Marian states his thoughts but to have it called koukash exclusive column is bad enough and the actual content is balls too.

He has a column every week with Barker i tend not to read them to much, but i did find this one quite funny!

What if Salford pipped us to fourth come the end of the season? That would be a total disaster and we will have been part of allowing them to do that.

I used to think he was a clown too but I've been taking note of his actions and statements and I've come to the conclusion that this is not an idiot who keeps shouting his mouth off, this is a clever man marketing the game to a wider audience than the RFL itself has been able to do in recent years.

He knows exactly what he's doing and saying. He is great for this sport.

The whole Gareth Hock Challenge Cup saga was totally made up in my opinion. There were no clauses in any contact that said he couldn't play against Salford, Koukash just wanted to soup up a bit of media attention for the game and the sport.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was the same. Imagine if Salford do actually win this game...more people will have had their attention drawn to the game through Salford's known knocked-back request in the media and the attention from the media with a win will be fairly big (as far as SL goes) and 25 more people are interested in this sport than would have been if none of this was ever in the media. Or is this just me being cynical?

If it is written by Neil Barker, why is it written in first person singular & first person plural.

However poor some think the Doc's English is, I think it's much better than our Palestinian!?
English is not his mother language.

Arabic is his first language and his English is better than Neil Barker's. The layout of the text is nothing to do with koucash. Barker is a crime against journalism.