Re: Salford : Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:13 am  

St Helens Wolf wrote: From what I've read here https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/why-salford-red-devils-can-delay-player-sales-and-avoid-cap-restrictions/ar-AA1y2BcR?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f64fe457817f4833eee65cf691f2c37d&ei=11 Salford will only be able to register players up to their new cap limit of £1.2m. They've got a CC game against Midlands Hurricanes next week, so they'll be able to put out a weakened side. Once Super League starts, unless their situation changes i.e. a take-over is completed, they'll have to proceed with a £1.2m squad with the remainder of the players, presumably the highest earners, unavailable but still being paid. For the potential buyers - it's very much in their interests to run the clock down. Thanks. Yes that is my understanding. What I don't agree with is the RFL giving opportunity for this uncertainty and delay. Salford should be told, in no uncertain terms, to register their players on the £1.2M cap immediately. If a new buyer comes in - then that's fine, good for Salford. But for the 2025 season the cap is £1.2M. But rival clubs and supporters have asked why the club haven’t been ordered to follow up on the claim they have to sell players ‘without delay’. The Rugby Football League’s chief executive, Tony Sutton, even admitted at last week’s Championship launch that the ball is in Salford’s court. This is ineptitude by the RFL to lose control of this situation having made the advance of £500K.

St Helens Wolf wrote: From what I've read here https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/why-salford-red-devils-can-delay-player-sales-and-avoid-cap-restrictions/ar-AA1y2BcR?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f64fe457817f4833eee65cf691f2c37d&ei=11 Salford will only be able to register players up to their new cap limit of £1.2m. They've got a CC game against Midlands Hurricanes next week, so they'll be able to put out a weakened side. Once Super League starts, unless their situation changes i.e. a take-over is completed, they'll have to proceed with a £1.2m squad with the remainder of the players, presumably the highest earners, unavailable but still being paid. For the potential buyers - it's very much in their interests to run the clock down. Thanks. Yes that is my understanding. What I don't agree with is the RFL giving opportunity for this uncertainty and delay. Salford should be told, in no uncertain terms, to register their players on the £1.2M cap immediately. If a new buyer comes in - then that's fine, good for Salford. But for the 2025 season the cap is £1.2M. But rival clubs and supporters have asked why the club haven’t been ordered to follow up on the claim they have to sell players ‘without delay’. The Rugby Football League’s chief executive, Tony Sutton, even admitted at last week’s Championship launch that the ball is in Salford’s court. This is ineptitude by the RFL to lose control of this situation having made the advance of £500K.

Re: Salford : Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:59 am  

It's possibly the worst situation. It doesn't reduce the club's actual spend, as they are still paying their players to sit on the side-lines, whilst hurting the fans, and in turn gate receipts, by fielding an uncompetitive team.

Re: Salford : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:05 pm  

St Helens Wolf wrote:

It's possibly the worst situation. It doesn't reduce the club's actual spend, as they are still paying their players to sit on the side-lines, whilst hurting the fans, and in turn gate receipts, by fielding an uncompetitive team.

Salford aren`t in a position to leave their top players on the side-lines and still pay their salaries.

They would have to allow them go elsewhere and if it happened, I doubt any other club would pay anything other than a very modest transfer fee which would be tantamount to a free transfer.

Re: Salford : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:36 pm  

St Helens Wolf wrote:

It's possibly the worst situation. It doesn't reduce the club's actual spend, as they are still paying their players to sit on the side-lines, whilst hurting the fans, and in turn gate receipts, by fielding an uncompetitive team.

That's a very Salford centric view though. The alternative is we have all this uncertainty and drama days ahead of the new season affecting all the other 11 clubs.

Salford knew this was coming from November last year when it was made clear their bailout from Salford council wasn't forthcoming. They have struggled financially for decades. Truth is they haven't the means to be a SL club.

Re: Salford : Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:50 pm  

Maybe a solution for the ineptitude as a one off would be for the RFL to take over the players surplus to Salford in a player pool & hire them out to Salford if needed or to other clubs on a weekly or monthly basis then any take over at Salford could compensate the RFL expenses for this season.

Re: Salford : Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:26 pm  

So i assume either Salford have sorted finances as they've just brought Tiaki chan in on loan.
Or They are selling a more expensive forward and needed a cheap replacement??

Re: Salford : Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:18 pm  

So just 7 nights to their first SL game. What cap are they going to be operating under? Are they intending to defy the RFL's imposed £1.2M cap? Are the RFL actually going to get a grip?

Re: Salford : Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:24 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

So just 7 nights to their first SL game. What cap are they going to be operating under? Are they intending to defy the RFL's imposed £1.2M cap? Are the RFL actually going to get a grip?

No, they have known about this for months and in reality it’s gone on for years. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to see any club go through what they have but like I said it’s been years and some form of punishment should have taken place.

Like you say we are a week away from the start of season and it would be a mockery if anything happened now that would throw the upcoming season into shambles.

Re: Salford : Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:34 pm  

Just seen an article where Rowley says he can only pick a team that comes under the restrictions. So this week’s cup game he can’t go above the 1.2 million which he probably would not have done so anyway. But goes on to say he hopes it’s sorted by the time we get to start of the season properly.

Re: Salford : Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:44 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Just seen an article where Rowley says he can only pick a team that comes under the restrictions. So this week’s cup game he can’t go above the 1.2 million which he probably would not have done so anyway. But goes on to say he hopes it’s sorted by the time we get to start of the season properly.

If this situation is allowed to fester into their Super League fixtures it will make a mockery of Rugby League in the UK.