Agar furious at direct approaches to players by Salford according to Nick Rigg, who do you think they are?
I think Amor will be one

Tim and DK were two.
We reported them to the RFL and they said they would get them to apologise.
Not sure about the other two.

Amor, Aiton, T. Smith & Kirmo. Lets face it, we would probably be happy to sell the rest (and that was before tonight's shambles)

Get them to apologise.... what a load of nonsense, they should be fined and docked points! RFL may as well just declare open season on our players.

Didn't we get a 5k fine for trying to poach Jason Robinson all those year ago.

Out of interest, has anyone been done for this since us for Jason Robinson?

Not before, not since.

Stupidity of it was, Robinson had announced he was leaving Wigan, we got fined and he went to union.

Game is as bent now, as it was then.

This after they issued a hands off warning to other clubs with Bradford Bulls. The RFL have made a rod for their own back with inviting koukash to invest in Salford.

I wonder how closely they are watching the salary cap, it would be funny if they were docked just enough points to leave them in the bottom two next season

They have to sanction the signings so you would hope they are keeping an eye out, sadly I think it will be as effective as David Blunkett keeping an eye out!!

Awww RFL get them to apologise, then everything will be alright

Alas clubs know the state we are in and lets face it we have a few players who would be welcome at most clubs so its looked on as open season by some.

I heard Amor was going to Wigan sealed deal and Ben Cockayne to Hull KR

listening to Agar comments he's not happy about the illegally approaches but seems his hands are tied

Weren't Shudds told to cough up 20k to the Dulls for an illegal approach?

ironic coming from Agar after he has signed for Catalans next season.......

Link?

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Doesnt sound like he is going anywhere?

Non issue for me. If the players are under contract then they and or our bod would have to want the deal to go through for it to happen and we would still receive a fee

Agar should be more worried how we signed players on contracts we couldn't afford, plus the way he has dealt with some of our players like cowling and wildie isn't exactly great IMO.

These approaches were allegedly made a while ago before the extent of our predicament was known to the wider world and Salford have effectively saved our bacon by agreeing to pay what our chairman describes as a substantial fee for tim smith so hardly like they were trying to get players on the cheap

Maybe players are speaking to their agents to have a word with other clubs if it all goes pear shaped at Wakefield ? why not ? the back room staff have a forced pay cut, reduced notice from 60 days to 10 ! its a job to players, and maybe they are looking out for themselves, and if so, why not. It maybe however as posted, with KouKash just doing whatever he pleases, don't worry, it will never end in success at Salford, it takes year to build that, not just to buy it !

Ive no isue with Salford, infact im glad he didnt act like a vulture and wait until we hit Admin before signing players

No Link mate.....just wait and see....now his mate doesn't pull the strings
he doesn't have the safety net......and in all honesty who wouldn't take a nice
cushy number in the South of France, in nice beachside accommodation, nice lifestyle
and probably a better financial package, to tie in with his France RL little number.
He could even turn his flat cap to the side and wear as a beret !!

ps he also knows the financial restrictions he will have next season.

I doubt there is any truth in it, for a start Koukash has paid a substancial fee for Tim Smith and also offered a six-figure-deal for Danny Kirmond which was rejected. It seems to me he has gone about our business is a respectful and appropriate manner, those arent the actions of a man who illegally approaches players.

If that were the case, I doubt Agar would have said otherwise in the media.

The good Dr has demonstrated a ruthless and impatient streak thus far, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it will sometimes have consequences; I'm sure the RFL will brush it under the carpet/deal with appropriately.