Chris Joynt fell over a few years back in a Grand Final....the Good Dr and his Devils have some ways to go yet...

God forbid anyone finds the Willie Talau thread on the Leeds forum a few years back, the Dr is a mere sideshow by comparison.

This is just one of many, across a range of message forums. People are obsessed with Marwan Koukash, fact.

No...it's one of a handful across a couple of forums and the person most obsessed with Marwan Koukash is Marwan Koukash

No...it's one of a handful across a couple of forums and the person most obsessed with Marwan Koukash and makes the most comments is Gutterfax.
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I am certainly paranoid but you are not qualified to assess it.

If he has been fined for comments prejudicial to the sport there are a host of other chairs/owners who could be dealt with in the same manner.
As you follow Leeds I'll ignore certain examples - and as i'm in a hurry - please explain why Tony Smith was recently fined for comments about the 'club-call' when McManus did exactly the same some time ago without any penalty?
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Or Hudgell and his 'foundations of sand'comments?

Or Rowley at Leigh and his 'hang their heads in shame' to the RFL when Crusaders got their Super League Licence?...

OK.



Hence the question mark. Did you really need a smilie as well? Why so confrontational?



As you're in a hurry I'll save you some time and tell you now that I don't know the answers to your questions and there's no way I could know. You'd have to ask the people who made them. Have you?

Yes, there are glaring inconsistencies in those examples but that doesn't mean that everybody is out to get Salford.

When things have calmed down for you, I'd be interested to hear the Leeds examples. The only one that comes to mind now is McDermott's comments after last year's Catalans game.

Of course there should be 2 plyrs not included on the cap. It'll get the media talking more about RL. I want a salary cap, but also I want a minimum spend, if you can't spend 90% of the cap then you shouldn't be in SL, otherwise it's not much more than a pub league.

Tony Smith wasn't fined for criticising the club call. He was fined for not turning up to it.

It's the way you criticise. Swearing, talking of sleeping with women and comparing Nigel Wood to Hitler is not the way to do it. Hence the fine, which Dr Koukash has accepted.

A league of 5/6 teams isn't much more than a pub league either.
Plus the salary cap is only area where clubs need to spend money. Top coaches, conditioning, sports science, analysis, physio & rehab and training facilities is just as important as the money spent on first team players.

Maybe the operational rule that refer clubs to making approaches to players contracted to other clubs,
the ones that do not say it's OK to encourage a player to try to get his contract cancelled and when that fails get him to plead homesickness.

dont all the rules not say it isnt ok to encourage a player to try to get his contract cancelled and when that fails get him to plead homesickness?

How about Hetherington stating that the governing body was/is [url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/aug/01/strike-crusaders-rflImpotent and Anonymous?[/url
It doesn't seem to be couched in humorous terms and there is no suggestion that the members of the press were as amused as they were listening to Dr K speak.

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Not prejudicial to the game,though.

No suggestion of victimization against the owner of Salford Red Devils,of course.

Did either of the statements you link to above include dropping the f-bomb? We're a family game and just because Salfords owner wants to be one of the lads there is no place for that language in comments from anyone professionally connected to the game!

Yep. But oh no, it's poor old Salford being picked on!

Wont somebody please think of the Children? He said a swear FFS!

We are a family game. I swear more than most people, but I don't have to answer to sponsors who expect all aspects of my company to reflect their values.......Heinz want to promote Big Soup....not f$&ing big soup!

Koucash doesnt work for the RFL

Nope....but his club is a member of the organisation which the RFL represent and anything that he says or does publicly that could be seen as detrimental to that organisation will be dealt with...as it has been here.
If he doesn't like the rules, why doesn't he organise a breakaway league where he and his mates can sign all the Burgess clan and get upset when the stadiums are still 60% empty......

What is it about SL fans in greater Manchester?
Wigan fans gave a very similar reaction to any criticism of Sam Tomkins as Salford fans are giving over the mad doctor.
Must be something in the water.

It's not even criticism.......the majority of fans like the Dr and his attitude but he's got to learn that sometimes, shouting the loudest and swearing won't win you the argument. He's on the naughty stair now....and he's still having a pop at Knock down Nigel......if he's not careful, he'll be sent to bed with no tea

I wonder if he's reached down the back of the sofa and found his £1k fine money yet.

I also see his wife is close to submitting a bid to takeover the Bulls, that's another vote secured for the marquee rule. Should be in sooner rather than later.

You see from where that his wife is close to buying the Bills?
If the RFL allow him to buy 2 clubs then they will be in court with a bigger opponent that bed-man moore pretty sharpish....they ripped IL's shares In London off him without batting an eyelid....if they now say dual ownership is cool....then he (and david hughes) will be all over them like scabies.

From what I understand it's not just his wife it's another 2 businessmen going in with her, come on if saving another SL club PROPERLY is a bad thing we might Aswel just pack up and go home now.

The Hetheringtons did it didn't they?

Either way, I feel it's a good thing to have more stability in the game.