Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:10 am  

Because if you take £300k of salary out of their team, they wouldn't be finishing anywhere near as high as they do.

They'd be wooden spoon candidates.

Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:35 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Let us not forget the our own council gave us £2m plus they provided the money to buy the ground. The latter was of course a loan and needs to be paid back but I believe they granted us a reasonable length of time before the first payment.

Plus Cas and Feath got the same

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Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:37 am  

dboy wrote:

Because if you take £300k of salary out of their team, they wouldn't be finishing anywhere near as high as they do.

They'd be wooden spoon candidates.

But they didn't do anything wrong to get that money. They agreed terms with the council, just like we did.
So they don't need to take £300k out.

It's bad business and will bite them one day, but it isn't against any SL rules.

Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:53 am  

PopTart wrote:

But they didn't do anything wrong to get that money. They agreed terms with the council, just like we did.
So they don't need to take £300k out.

It's bad business and will bite them one day, but it isn't against any SL rules.

Who mentioned rules?

It's distasteful and immoral.

Using council funding to operate isn't the best look.

Using those funds to then pay big-name players whilst defaulting on a huge portion of your rent is even worse.

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Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:04 am  

dboy wrote:

Who mentioned rules?

It's distasteful and immoral.

Using council funding to operate isn't the best look.

Using those funds to then pay big-name players whilst defaulting on a huge portion of your rent is even worse.

So I go back to my point that it doesn't affect us.
It's their choice.
If its not against the rules it isn't causing us a problem

Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:53 pm  

How is them getting a better IMG score than they should for performance not affecting us, or the wider game?

However, I'm certainly not attacking the SRD position from the viewpoint of a Wakefield supporter - I think it's a completely ridiculous situation for the game.

We disagree about it's importance, I guess.

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Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:15 pm  

dboy wrote:

How is them getting a better IMG score than they should for performance not affecting us, or the wider game?

However, I'm certainly not attacking the SRD position from the viewpoint of a Wakefield supporter - I think it's a completely ridiculous situation for the game.

We disagree about it's importance, I guess.

What we disagree on is whether they get those points unfairly.

Morally I wouldn't be too happy especially if I lived in Salford

But from what I see, it's just a deal they got away with.
I don't think anyone would complain if our council wrote off our loan.

Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:17 pm  

PopTart wrote:

What we disagree on is whether they get those points unfairly.

Morally I wouldn't be too happy especially if I lived in Salford

But from what I see, it's just a deal they got away with.
I don't think anyone would complain if our council wrote off our loan.

Fev and Cas fans might.

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Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:13 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Fev and Cas fans might.

Indeed, let me correct that to no Wakefield fans would complain.

Re: Salford placed in special measures : Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:16 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I don't think anyone would complain if our council wrote off our loan.

Plenty would be complaining if we didn't pay it back!