Quote ="Derek Smalls"Let's get one thing straight: without Dr Koukash coming in at the 11th hour, Super League would be a team short right now. We were dead. Buried. Kaput. Finito.
Surely it's not too much of a stretch of logic to therefore appreciate that we few fans think he's, you know, a pretty decent bloke. Arranging to clear the debt and take on a loss producing rugby league club when you've seen a handful of games in your life suggests to us that he's got a few quid. He's brought in half a dozen new players and a former Great Britain coach. That's probably cost him a few more.
Some fans may be getting a bit carried away thinking we will be top of the ladder in a couple of seasons - the Dr naively stated next year! All wrong. But now we've got a bright future. One a lot brighter than 5 months ago. We may never win a Grand Final. But this bloke's giving us a chance. So I reckon he's, you know, a pretty decent bloke.'"
I can't argue with the fact that he ahs turned Salford's fortunes right on their head. My issue isn't with that.
My point is (as I have satted several times on this thread but people are lashing out in defence) that he has a monopoly over your club. This is fine at the moment, but he has got bored with one CEX withing THREE MONTHS. To me that is worrying, you don't want the club to be a merrygoround of players and coaches. It didn't work for Leeds in the 1980's and it cant work for anyone else.
To make statements as you say, like "we will win the league next year" shows naivety to an outrageous extent.
And yes, I stand by my comment, saying "clubs spend over the salary cap so I will do the same" IS bringing the game into disrepute. It libellously suggests clubs are breaking the rules, when I imagine he has no real evidence for this.
I also believe that the Ben Westwood incident was pathetic. Launching his own inquiry??? the video shows Ben doing nothing of what was suggested.
In closing, if I were a Salford fan, I'd want him to talk less and act more. The more he opens his mouth the more skeptical I become of the bloke. You guys have a LOT of work to be done in order to be a big club.
All the best