Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:10 pm  

I don’t want to go into full on panic mode just yet but is there any corroboration with regard to Hayes new injury?

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:17 pm  

Alffi_7 wrote:

But if clubs do not come in and take players, there will be no Salford as they won’t be able to pay the bills…

Salford will probably be looking for player exchange plus cash for any players that they off-load.

They have done remarkably well in the past with other teams unwanted players.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:36 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

I don’t want to go into full on panic mode just yet but is there any corroboration with regard to Hayes new injury?

Unless it's just lazy journalism in relation him still in a recovery phase from his previous injury. Obviously nothing from the club but lets hope its nothing.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:57 pm  

BOSS HOG wrote:

Salford will probably be looking for player exchange plus cash for any players that they off-load.

They have done remarkably well in the past with other teams unwanted players.

Tai for Macdonald will do me…

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 2:11 pm  

ninearches wrote:

It's all very well for other teams to be feeding off the Salford position but it will leave Salford in a worse situation than they are already in terms of playing strength & probably not deserving a place in SL.

Isn't it more that Salford have been/are living beyond their means and the RFL has had to step in and enforce a maintainability cap to stop them doing that? Can't be asking for £0.5M worth of urgent advance payments to keep the lights on.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:44 pm  

Heard he’s done his hamstring. I see Salford have now pulled out of pre-season friendlies, what a bloody mess.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:17 pm  

ninearches wrote:

It's all very well for other teams to be feeding off the Salford position but it will leave Salford in a worse situation than they are already in terms of playing strength & probably not deserving a place in SL.

The thing is, though, that it's the RFL that has ordered Salford to sell players in order to comply with their new reduced cap of £1.2m. That needs to happen ASAP, so the other clubs would actually be doing Salford a favour (of sorts) by buying their players, and thus helping to get them within their new cap. Salford being left in a worse situation in terms of their playing strength is an inevitability (unless the RFL change their minds, and I rule out nothing with those clowns). As for whether or not Salford deserve to be in this season's Super League, that's a moot point. Perhaps future IMG grading questionnaires need to be more explicit, and contain a question along the lines of 'Are you at risk of imminent financial collapse?'.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:19 pm  

Salford have been on a tightrope for a good few years financially & it isn't a good advert for the game at the start of the season. Even the new ground hasn't really helped them.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:38 pm  

ninearches wrote:

Salford have been on a tightrope for a good few years financially & it isn't a good advert for the game at the start of the season. Even the new ground hasn't really helped them.

The new ground has been the catalyst of Salford woes.

Built away from their fan base on wasteland and owned by Peel Holdings and Salford Council with no way of generating any income for the Rugby League Club.