[quote="Stu M":22lxi0ff]I believe Saints are livid. Any potential "walk ups" now won't happen. Salford have clearly looked at it and presumed that they had a good chance of losing with a weakened team anyway, so made the decision to completely rest everyone and go again in R2. That's how I see it anyway.[/quote:22lxi0ff] Many Saints supporters are not Stu. I don't blame them Salford. The RFL has instructed them to play a weakened team, they now cannot moan that they have decided to play an Academy team. I was looking forward to watching the game, I'll now give it a wide berth. Salford may not be able to play a full team for weeks, in which case it devalues the competition as some teams will get an easy two points. What happens if a team wins the LLS on points difference or fails to make the top six? Our game continues to be a laughing stock. Lions on the field donkeys off it!

I’ve made it to 22-0 and 15 mins and that’s all I can stomach watching this non-event. What a joke our sport is being made to look from Salford’s decision making.

[quote="DannyT":novcm80g]I’ve made it to 22-0 and 15 mins and that’s all I can stomach watching this non-event. What a joke our sport is being made to look from Salford’s decision making.[/quote:novcm80g] Any perceptions are completely validated. Our sport is sadly barely professional; the governance is amateur and most clubs are run in a semi-professional way. Our main TV deal is barely over £20m, that’s an incredibly low amount of money these days. How is that meant to support even SL nevermind trickle down to grass roots? The NRL’s is 10x ours and they’re about to get even more from a US TV deal. Women’s football gets 3x ours and they’ve only been professional for about 6 years. Anyway, gone off-topic… Saints will be alright this season I think, should make the top 4 and probably push top 2.

Honestly, it makes an absolute mockery of the sport. I'd happily see Salford kicked out of the league. If someone has bought them, let them start in the Champ. They make the old Latics look well run.

I'm surprised at how angry I am at that farce tonight. Both Salford and the RFL should hang their heads in shame - a totally avoidable embarrassment after a really promising start to the season.

No one to blame but Salford. They’ve already had half a million up front and have thrown their toys out of the pram purely because the RFL are conducting due diligence on a new owner. For all intents and purposes he could be another Koukash. No reason why they couldn’t field the same team as last week which would’ve been competitive. Instead they threw in a bunch of kids and hung them out to dry