Did you do that on purpose, you little mischief!!

I don't think it would have taken you very long to find out what Dr Koukash's first name is, as he has been in the rugby press quite a lot recently. Still, a lot easier to just call him some random name, eh?

Interesting choices though considering his Palistinian origins. Who would have though of all the names in the world you'd have guessed it may be 'Saddam' or 'Abu'...?

Careful you don't get dizzy up there on your high horse. By creating a stink over an insensitive remark you're making it something worse than it should be.

Yes, you're right, I'm 'making it worse than it should be'. My fault entirely. On my 'high horse' again. 'Tight bum' about these sorts of things. I'll leave you all to carry on. As you were.

I actually threw an "alan" in there as well! you neglected that one!

At the time of typing I couldn't be bothered googling "Dr Koukash first name"

Appreciated it was in poor taste - I think you'll hear a lot worse than that in day to day life though to be fair.

If not then that cotton wool needs to come off.

Incidentally, have you ever watched "goodness gracioous me"?

There's an asian family on there trying to integrate into British culture. I forget the entire script, but the main guy's name is "dinesh kumar" but calls himself "dennis cooper". It's brilliantly done!

think it might lighten your attitude somewhat

(or loosen your bum, if I may allude to a previous metaphor)

...also, Abu was the name of the little critter monkey from Alladin - which if anything suggests Dr Koukash's mischievous and tinkersome side - linking nicely to the little newspaper articles he has been.

Were you suggesting I meant a certain Islamic extremist!?!?!?!?!?!

You racist man! How dare you!

OK, I'll save you the trouble. It's Marwan. Dr Marwan Koukash.

As in "Hello, is that Castleford Tigers? I'd like to buy your star player Rangi Chase. My name? Yes it's Dr Marwan Koukash..."

Why didn't you just write Koukash?

haha, I think my work here is done.

Anybody got any watches that need winding up as well?

By the way, I love the "we are a big club now" attitude.

Salford, the new Wigan.

I think his own team are doing that at the moment.

Point being pal it's not his team, its a aftermath of a disintegrated John wilkinson team. His team will be playing next year.

god almighty.

lets all remember these are the same fans that were crying and whining 3 months ago that they wouldn't have a club cause it was in disrepair.

I was one of those that went on the Salford page and wished them all the best

Now we've gotta put up with the fickle lot that think they're the best club of all time.

Salford red devils?

Why not Salford Storm?
Or even better - South Salford Rabbitohs?

Or are they a little bit too small for the likes of Abu the tinker to care about?



round two lol

Oh sorry i forgot we're inferior fans I forgot that we should sit down and be quiet and looks up to the rest of the big clubs? Oh and we've been known as the Red Devils since the 1930s so your little plss take doesn't make sense?

that's not what I said at all.

Don't forget that when you were crying into your Boddingtons that you weren't going to have a club, people such as myself wished you all the best.

Crowing now that you're gonna be the best club in the world and have a divine right to sign other club's best players is somewhat fickle.

I actually like the name change as well - hope you get a couple of fans in to watch them

Who exactly has been crowing? TBH it's good business for both clubs if you sold Chase as you'll probably get more than you would have in transer fee's than you would from Hull, and it's good for us as we'll gain a world class player to hopefully take the club forward.

that pecker on the last page about "we are taking your best player" blablabla

i do agree though that it could be made into exceptional business for both clubs - you could build a team round him, and we would get a cushty amount of money for the privelege

.....all assuming Chase wants to go to Salford. He might actually want to stay at Tigers.

I'm sure he wouldn't mind Manchester and Koukash will sell him his vision for the future? Surley chase would of turned down Salford before they got to the stage where a transfer fee would be negotiated.

Don't put all your faith in the M.E.N. Red league

Oh I don't normally but since Koukash took over he uses the Manchester evening news as his own little message board. Also Trevor hunt bbc gmr RL presenter took to twitter saying he's been informed by several very reliable sources that chase was Salford bound, I mean if there was nothing in it why would they run the story again after the last attempted of koukash signing him was turned down by Cas at the enquiring stage.

Don't lump us all in the same bracket.

There are one or two hyper-excited individuals which seem to make a point of going around the boards of other Clubs and basically act like bell-ends. I understand their excitement, after all, we've come from the brink and things are looking rosy. Something which isn't happening at a lot of other Clubs. I think they should wind it in a little and have a little humility towards Clubs going the same way as we were before xmas.

Couldn't agree more - compared to your situation in February things are infinitely better.

But on base value, you are pretty much in the same position as us, just 15 (ish) years behind.

We had one major investor who put money into our club (allbeit not in the same bracket as your guy is threatening)

But if/when he decides he's had enough you'll be worse off than before. We currently aren't at the stage where our investor wants his money back but it's looking likely.

All I'd say is, as much as you're out of the hole, you're still in a precarious position, as it's only down to one man that's keeping you going. I aren't suggesting he'll pull out this week, next month, or even for the next ten years.

But it's still fickle of some of your guys to be crowing about the new found wealth, when the rug could quite easily be swept from under your feet.

In the meantime, I wish you all the success in the world, and Salford certainly seem to have had a much needed shot in the arm, which is great for the sport

It's that reason why we, as Salford fans, need to keep a lid on things. Being a fan of a lower half Club should mean that arrogance is the last thing that creeps into your ideas. Alas it isn't always the way for some.

Salford is getting enough flak from all sides atm. Most of which is unwarranted when you look at it in an unbiased fashion. Having just a few knobbers spouting-off can do serious damage to the rest of us, and it shames me to say that we have some of the best and worst fans in SL.

Sounds like Bradfut have also tried to get away with 14 players last night. The mandatory 10K fine then ?

I have to say I was with your fans at the magic weekend in cardiff, and the chants you guys had when you were getting beat were fantastic! Had a right laugh.

So please don't think I'm in any way "anti-Salford"

I'm more, anti-bigwigs and anti-ficklefans