We're always accusing some club or other of fiddling the salary cap, when the reality is it's us that are at getting value for money out of ours.

That's potentially ridiculous! I heard wire had him for 130 k a year. More than that on a winger is mental!!!

It is when that winger is nothing special.

Hall
Briscoe
Makinson
Burgess
Charnley
McGillveray
Carney
Broughton
Lineham
Monaghan

In no particular order that is my top 10 list of Superleague wingers. More than 130k for a winger who doesn't feature in the top 10? Crazy. Either Koukash is going to break the cap, or Salfords squad is going to be sorely lacking in other areas.

No matter what they paid for him, if they sign a decent centre, they have a great backline next season.

Locke
BJB
Sau
New
Johnson
Chase
Sneyd

Easily a top 4 backline. I'm not a fan of how the Dr goes about his business especially on twitter, but is certainly putting money were his mouth is.

I heard Warrington £120,000 Salford £130,000 but he plumped for Warrington, before Salford upped their offer to what,........... I have no idea. Mind you that came from Journalists in Leeds so not gospel.

800k/1.65m on a back line? Doesn't leave much for the remaining 18 players.

Tommy lee is supposedly on 98k a season, so I would imagine sau hasn't come to SL for a pittance, Shauls new contract has put him on 78k a year.

One assumes Jamie is shouting this from the rooftops

I genuinely have no idea for the likes of sau and Johnson, hence I erred on the side of caution in my estimates.

Tim smith (who, despite rumours, koukash has said is going nowhere) is another who I'd imagine is on 6 figures (roughly) Hansen was (according to the wiganers) offered 6 figures, and like sau, rapira and Tasi won't be only less than 50k - it all adds up

No I think we can assume that someone is "in the know".

Wow

Yet when some post supposed wages they are poo pooed.

#cuddlecrew

It all has a whiff of too good to be true. I do like that he's ruffling the RFL's feathers a bit as well as drawing publicity for the game, though.

Have you never heard of sarcasm.

Agreed. He seems determined to build a strong team at Salford so I like that he's putting his money where his mouth is as you say. But I don't like his Twitter and media comments about the team which I think is putting them under unnecessary pressure. Nor do I like how he handled the Noble/Harris affair. His comments about change in the rules of Super League are refreshing though.

Bit off track but any fancy Ryan Brierley for FC next season?

No not at all. If we're to sign another halve, it needs to be an experienced one.

No thanks.(only if Horne,Rankin & Miller are leaving)

How many running HB's do we need?

A HB with the ability to split open a defence, coupled with a good kicking game is what we need.

I genuinely think HTW is the man we are going to be pinning our hopes on. Good players of the type you describe are very rare. I think we will go with Rankin and Miller with Horne as back up until the end of next season, then the reigns go to the youngsters. I would like to sign a top class 7 for a couple of years for Wilson and Dean to learn from, but I don't think we will.

Some good rumours about at the moment, the ones that I have heard.

Taylor
Dobson
Green
Brierley
Leuluai
Sa

Taylor's Defo on, & Ryan Brierley is very much on the radar.

It would be intresting to see how Brierley would go in Superleague. A very good young championship scrumhalf with a excellent try scoring record. Worth a punt I suppose.

Sounds like Jamie Ellis!!

So was Jamie Ellis, so I hope the club has done a bit more research this time.

Age isn't that big a factor, Dobson was about 19 when he came over here and I would certainly sign Mark Sneyd given the chance.

Sounds similar to Rankin/Miller/Horne.

Take your pick .

Brierley is going well in the Championship but, as others have mentioned, so was Jamie Ellis and that didn't work out too well for us. Could be worth a try but definitely a gamble IMO. Would like to think that if he was coming to us that it is alongside another more experienced HB.