You can not make it up ,it is a disgrace

Quote ="FIL"Salford council have now fully bought the AJ Bell Stadium so to celebrate, Salford have now signed David Nofoaluma from Wests Tigers... https://www.totalrl.com/breaking-ex-wes ... ague-move/'" They're still not going to be primary tenants, so other than securing the lease to ensure their participation in SL its doesn't score them any extra IMG points (unless my understanding is wrong) I bet there is a lot of salford city council tax payers not happy about the use of these public funds

Quote ="FIL"Salford council have now fully bought the AJ Bell Stadium so to celebrate, Salford have now signed David Nofoaluma from Wests Tigers... https://www.totalrl.com/breaking-ex-wes ... ague-move/'" They're still not going to be primary tenants, so other than securing the lease to ensure their participation in SL its doesn't score them any extra IMG points (unless my understanding is wrong) I bet there is a lot of salford city council tax payers not happy about the use of these public funds

They have only sold 700 season tickets, hopefully a few more get on board now for them.

Given the uncertainty about if / where they would be playing, this is probably understandable.
Like every other club, they need some stability before they can grow and since Koucash left, they haven't had any..

You could ague that they didn't have any when he was there, left them with more debt than when he started and no progress on the ground

Quote ="FIL"Salford council have now fully bought the AJ Bell Stadium so to celebrate, Salford have now signed David Nofoaluma from Wests Tigers... https://www.totalrl.com/breaking-ex-wes ... ague-move/'" No they haven't. The council have voted to be willing/intend to take full ownership of the stadium. Now they have to negotiate a deal with Peel Holdings to try and agree a purchase price with them. If and when it happens, it won't be any time too soon.

Quote ="FIL"Salford council have now fully bought the AJ Bell Stadium so to celebrate, Salford have now signed David Nofoaluma from Wests Tigers... https://www.totalrl.com/breaking-ex-wes ... ague-move/'" No they haven't. The council have voted to be willing/intend to take full ownership of the stadium. Now they have to negotiate a deal with Peel Holdings to try and agree a purchase price with them. If and when it happens, it won't be any time too soon.

Hope they have better luck dealing with them than Doncaster Airport....

All clubs are doing everything possible to be in the top 12 decided by IMG’s ratings. I bet there are supporters at every club not A rated looking for any negatives from the other teams. I suppose this is an attempt to calm any internal fears they may hold regarding Trinity’s own status. We know what we need to do and now we are capable of meeting these requirements to stay in the top 12.
The other clubs also know but based on the provisional ratings they have to do more to pass us and we will be adding further known points not considered in the provisional ratings.

Are they out of special measures now ? I guess they must be

Haven’t seen anything. They’ve signed a few whilst in them so suspect they will be in special measures until their situation improves.

Personally had it not been for two reasonably successful seasons on the pitch I think Salford would have really struggled and collapsed as a club. Their recent finals etc have pretty much kept their head above water but one bad season and could all go pear shaped for them.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... s-28753140 Never known anything like this. It's loan after loan plus player sales and fan investment, possibly best part of £1m to keep running. I don't see how any sort of deal on the stadium changes that kind of operational deficit.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... s-28753140 Never known anything like this. It's loan after loan plus player sales and fan investment, possibly best part of £1m to keep running. I don't see how any sort of deal on the stadium changes that kind of operational deficit.

Interesting quote from the leader of the conservatives on the council


"This is not the first time it's happened, over the last few years we've had urgent requests for money because they'd run out. This is the club that will be paying rent on the stadium, if they can't even afford to run the club how can we justify buying it without sufficient income? The whole thing doesn't stand up."

And they are in special measures and have signed a few players including a big signing couple weeks ago from nrl whilst in them. Who signs off on that? It stinks. They should cut their cloth and rely on loans or younger players then maybe they wouldn’t have the begging bowl out or the public of Salford wouldn’t be paying for these signings and to keep them afloat.

What is the purpose of special measures?

I dare say Salford have been hanging on a while now and if not for these things and some reasonable success on the pitch recent years they would be in real danger of folding as a team or diving towards lower leagues.

For all clubs, achieving an "A" grade is the only way to be certain of SL status.
Without it, the future will be volatile.
How and if we can get there has to be the no 1 aim.

THIS is the hilarious bit..

A club spokesperson said:

"To challenge the perpetual false narrative that the club seemingly does not pay its way, we would also like to be clear that the club have paid and continue to pay rent on a monthly basis that is higher than any amount paid by any of the club’s previous ownership since moving into the Salford Community Stadium."

So, they still don't pay full rent - just more than the last owners - and think that that means they are paying their way!

Utter sham of a club!

Last probably paid like minimal but this could even just be half rent or less. That statement doesn’t tell you anything.

Off the field Salford are a bit of a basket case who are pumping the money into a playing squad it seems that’s not sustainable.

I bet these money injections though count as a positive on the finance img as external funding brought in which if that’s the case would truly be laughable. They are lifelines to keep the club alive. If they stop then it will likely mean Salford going into admin.

State funded rugby league club.

IMO Salford will be lucky to complete the season.

They scraped it last year financially, but if the desperate council buyout of the stadium falters, it's game over.

It is only the outstanding and determined work by the previous incumbents that saved our club from financial disaster and paved the way for Matt Ellis to step in and use his wealth to develop a new narrative for Trinity - built on the dedicated work of Michael Carter and John Minards. We wouldn't be here without them and certainly not looking to pull together the additional fractions of points to reach the magic 15 to provide Super League security.
Be absolutely certain, if Councillor Box had had his way we would now be in a far worse position than Salford.

Spot on, pity we got some on here who do not want to know the truth

Council Tax funded by residents Rugby League Club

Sounds like they have some very good 'friends' on the council. They know when they have spent this latest gift, the council will cough up again. Also reads like it was pushed through by a small few at the top and there was no wider consultation with the full council, hardly democratic but mirrors the dictatorial style when Box ran out council.

Don't forget this club is 8th in the IMG provisional gradings.
Makes no sense.

All they are doing is getting investment just like many others.
It's just that this is public money instead of private.
If they can agree those terms good luck to them.......but clearly that is a fragile existence.

The sad thing is that on the balance sheet this will actually help get Salford points I think from outside investment etc. though in reality it’s to keep them in existence. Very fragile indeed.

One bad season on the pitch and their goose may be cooked.