clearly paying thier players in brown envelopes. how can they possibly sign all these players on their crowds? they are worse than ours?

The game is corrupt the RFL funding quins and crusaders, hudds & wigan been cheating for years, warrington at it too.

only us and a few others playing by the rules







richard lewis

rules your ground isnt even up to standard and not to sure about any plans and your forgetting the money we got for myler

I can't quite bring myself to be as hard faced cynical as sun bed kid but Im sure he aint the only one wondering how Salford are managing to sign all these players and stay under cap. Im sure the Myler payments are helpful but did he really go for such a large fee?

You were quick biting werent you?

im not to sure on the actual fee and what was added to the cap after he went but it has made alot of space free and wehave players leaving at the end of the season who are highly paid at our club like alker, talau, sibbit, j smith

so in other words you are cheating

how are we cheating the myler transfer freed up space on the salary cap and we are letting highly paid players go dont see why you lot are so bitter cause you wont get your license renewed

If you Wakey fans did research you would know that we Salford have only been operating on half their salary cap for the last 2 years, and with the stadium sorted it means we can spend quite alot

oh my eyes SBK you got 2 HUGE bites here

I can't imagine the likes of Nero, Anderson, Bailey, Palaesina or Latu or on much. The majority of these are journeymen who probably weren't offered contract at their clubs. Patten and Holdworths will probably be on a bit but you've got to imagine Salford have the smallest wage bill in the league prior to these signings.

They'll be under the cap and by a fair bit in my opinion. Compare their side to the likes of Leeds, Wigan, Warrington and Saints. It's apparent they're taking a little gamble so that when the new stadium opens they have some momentum.

Whether these players will take them to the standard they desire is another question.

im not bitter. im just astonished you have admitted that your own club are cheating. we may have a knackered stadium but we WILL get our stadium and WE will pull your pants down everytime we play you like we will on sunday

which stand will you 4 sit in ?

1 stand each?

About 200k I think, we've only spent 40% of the salary cap in recent years, and Alker and J.Smith two of out biggest earners won't be playing for us next season, so its easily seen how we're managing to stay under the cap, as for money wise we haven't spent big in years, maybe Wilkinson was storing some money away and felt now was the time to spend.

Trolling or not, I never thought I'd see the day where any form of doubt is cast upon whether or not we're breaking the salary cap. Good time to be a Salford fan, except for the hefty beatings we've been having of late

1 fan in fact. Stop biting!!

salford will flop like we did when signed all the supposed good players .... the likes of mcnamara and goulding etc

Whats the likely line up for Salford next year?

my guess:
Patten
Broughton
Henry
Ratchford
Gibson
Holdsworth
Smith
?
Leo-Latu
Cashmere
Anderson
Bailey
Wild

?
?
Paleasaena
Boyle

dont know where they are getting there money from but fair play to them. got to be close to the salery cap tho

1. Patten
2. Broughton
3. Henry
4. Nero
5. Gibson
6. Holdsworth
7. M Smith
8. Cashmere
9. Leo Latu
10. Jewitt/Sidlow
11. Bailey
12. V Anderson
13. Wild

14. Ratchford
15. Jewitt/Sidlow
16. Paleaaesina
17. Boyle

They’ll be nowhere near the Salary Cap.

Just look at the teams that are, the likes of Leeds, St’s, Warrington etc.

Whether the club can afford it, with such poor crowds, is another matter.

No Adamson?


Already stated in my last post why we would be able to afford it, maybe we even used some of the staidum loan money, who knows?

I can't see why this is an issue.

Under the live salary cap they will not be able to register a player if their contract is going to take them over the limit.
I think they are building a good side but like the man said, they are still not Leeds or Saints so I can't imagine this will take them over the ca limit, the question is whether they can afford it. We obviously don't know where they are getting the money but why should it be under hand. Couldn't they just have someone giving them money above board.

I think the idea of not being able to break the salary cap when it's live is a bit of a myth. The NRL have had the system in place for a while and Melbourne have only just been caught this season. Given the ineptness of the game's governing body, it wouldn't surprise me if teams were found to be somehow finding a way around the salary cap at the moment.

I think most people will say it's pretty obvious that we're still nowhere near overspending the cap. John Wilkinson isn't the sort of guy to just blindly throw money around in the way that some teams have done in the past resulting in them going into administration. I think prior to the building of the new ground we were probably curbing our spending a little. Now that the build is finally underway, it must have been decided that we're now going to up the activity in the player market a bit.

If I remember rightly when we sold Gareth Ellis to Leeds we were told something along the lines of "Transfer fees cannot be applied to the salary cap"

I could be wrong, if I am wrong I am sure somebody will correct me.

As a business strategy, it's good, because the signings, and hopefully performance, will generate some interest going into the new ground in an area that has become apathetic to rugby.

I think we are in a slightly different boat, as we have seen the Wakefield people turn out to Belle Vue when either the on-field stuff has been going well, or the off-field stuff is an attraction, like Diversity, and so for us I think there is a greater appetite for rugby. Wetting it is the issue.