Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:55 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

To be fair kevs point is valid we average crowds of 8000 but our owners still put £500,000 a year in so how on earth will Salford survive with no sugar daddy

Serious question, what on earth do you spend your money on if you have the Sky money, those crowds and 500k on top from your owners? Because Wakey are 450k below the cap but we have a much better squad.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 2:13 pm  

Wakefield are not £450k below the cap

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 3:58 pm  

Lebron James wrote:

From a Salford POV it’s very worrying. Personally I can see them going down the Leigh route of administration and a points deduction. That said, Leigh would have a better chance of bouncing back as they have a decent backbone of support and a town that actually likes rugby league. For Salford I’m afraid this isn’t the case and I feel the writing is on the wall for them.

Regards

King James

Leigh have not gone down any route yet.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:15 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Wakefield are not £450k below the cap

Well who'd have guessed it?! The multiple-personality troll is Michael Carter.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:21 pm  

am i the only one who thinks koukash is still backing salford financially, but a lower input? he made sure they got hastings, so wouldnt surprise me if he is still hiding silently in the background (apart from his twitter account where he is still very vocal/gobby about salford)

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:37 pm  

I think the OP is just wishful thinking, but I would like to see the game as a whole being a better product, having increasing supporter numbers and better financed.
Biggest worry for me is when the current TV deal is due for renewal, as a reduced income would only increase the difficulty in running a rugby league club.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:46 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Wakefield are not £450k below the cap

You have on one hand the Wakefield chairman saying we are, and on the other an internet troll who hasn't a scooby about the finances saying we are not.

You should stick to the Leeds board, but I don't think even the Leeds fans on there deserve that treatment.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sat Oct 20, 2018 5:15 pm  

Willzay wrote:

You have on one hand the Wakefield chairman saying we are, and on the other an internet troll who hasn't a scooby about the finances saying we are not.

You should stick to the Leeds board, but I don't think even the Leeds fans on there deserve that treatment.

Now now Willzay, you're not suggesting that Jean would lie... purely to put Wakefield down??

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:48 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

To be fair kevs point is valid we average crowds of 8000 but our owners still put £500,000 a year in so how on earth will Salford survive with no sugar daddy

Thanks fun time, it’s good to know there are some other sensible posters out there with the ability to think for their selves.

number 6 wrote:

am i the only one who thinks koukash is still backing salford financially, but a lower input? he made sure they got hastings, so wouldnt surprise me if he is still hiding silently in the background (apart from his twitter account where he is still very vocal/gobby about salford)

Koukash must be covering their losses or they’d have already gone bust, you can’t run a Super League club on crowds of 2000 David Hughes will vouch for that.

Re: Salford a ticking time bomb : Sun Oct 21, 2018 9:03 am  

Funny isn't it this transformation regarding Wakefields cap situation, I've even read one of the more sane Cas fans on the nutjob forum playing this card.

About 18 month ago nobody questioned that we were 450k under the cap because everyone claimed we were an average team made up of cast off's and journeymen punching above their weight or similar patronising crap.

Now these same players are not the above but are now seen as quality players who's value has rocketed and pushed us up to or even beyond the cap according to some.

So lets get this straight, the addition of Pauli Pauli, Horo, Hampshire and Randell (and even disregarding those who have left) and adding in a few juniors given a pay rise this has somehow cost us 450k - seriously!

Wow we are over paying our new recruits if that's the case - problem is posters on here want it both ways where Wakey are concerned.

So what is it, did we get lucky and sign relative unknowns who somehow came good or did we somehow convince a load top players to join us for peanuts only to over pay them the following year?

At the rate Wakefield are going, unless there is an improvement in crowds or we win some trophies it will eventually catch up with us as young players values begin to rise - that's the nature of the game - but to suggest we are there right now is simply not true - some of our better players are still on the low salaries they joined on, when we can't retain them anymore then we know we will have reached our limits - which IMO is still lower than the cap.