Yes I can imagine he will be.

I think the first seven people he saw after the game will have been sacked. He'll be out in the paper tomorrow threatening to mutilate the players if they don't win next week.

It would have been better for him to keep his trap shut.
When he starts gobbing off about top 4 you can hear the coaches from other clubs thinking 'Cheers I'll be pinning that to our changing room door'.

yup, that'll learn ya.

on tonights evidence, he's looking very foolish with his predictions, more like bottom 4 again!

although to be air to him, he made some very good points in the interview pre match.

this obnoxious references to him as "The Doctor" every 5 minutes were so unnecessary

I think he's a clever man. If you sat down off the record with him I reckon he would admit that top 8 would be a good season. The top 4 talk is to get people talking about them, and it's worked.

Why is referring to a dr as 'the dr' obnoxious?

I don't understand why people get so uptight about him "gobbing off" he's probably got us more column inches than any grand final ever has.

Ok he makes outlandish statements, but he is starting to give Salford an identify and turn it into a brand.

He's tuning a team who have been basement dwellers, posted small crowds and had no identify even in Salford into something bigger and better. In a couple of years they WILL be challenging for honours and considering what sort of club Salford have been, it's good for the game.

I think the first thing in Koukash's shopping list though is a hooker. One of most important positions and they have two woeful players playing there.

The FREQUENCY was obnoxious

How can a man who didn't know a scrum from a hooker 2 years ago tune anything.
He will have advisors telling him how the sport of RL works.

It's like me starting to watch lacrosse and in 2 years time be expected to know enough to run a lacrosse team.
I would need advisors advising me which players to acquire as well as which coach is best for the job.

I reckon the good doctor must have something pretty damning on Phil Clarke though.....

WHY?

And demanding that teams that get nilled at home get special dispensation of a 10 point start in their next game ....or they can offer to buy the points off another team !

Genius!

Salford are light years away from being a mid-table side, let alone top four or even GF winners.

As for their dodgy new owner, I don't rate him. Their fans will be screaming for his head before too long.

Rubbish...they've already beaten London away this season, scoring 44 points in the capital...it's not like they did that last year.

Doctor who?

Pretty much this. If other club chairmen were as enthusiastic in talking up the game as Koukash is, we'd have significantly fewer problems as a sport than we currently do.

It was quite refreshing in his pre match interview to see him laying down the gauntlet those club chairmen that are holding this sport back, rather than following fashion and blaming the RFL for the world's ills.

Steady on Brucie, I think the fans are chuffed to bits with the guy.
Perpetual strugglers to mid table isn't a bad start and I think he will splash some more cash to make then more competitive.
The problem wont be the fans wanting rid but, he could lose patience.

I think he's a breath of fresh air, and providing he doesn't saddle the club itself with debt (or borrow against it's assets) or other Bradrord-style shennaeghans then let him spend what he wants, it's HIS money and this is a DEMOCRACY not North flamin' Korea!

I think any club should be able to spend what it can afford, but we should have a rule of no "borrowing" or other financial skulduggerry! If that means a sugar-daddy can come along and bankroll Hunslet or Swinton to the Grand Final.....then so be it!

Seconded. On the pre-match build up on Radio Manchester, the Manchester Evening News' RL writer Neil Barker made the point that no-one in the national media knows what's going on at Leeds (for example), but they know what's happening at Salford.

He's not a breath of fresh air, he's a tornado.

Would the salary cap not have been democratically voted in by the clubs?

And at the time it was voted in clubs like Salford would more than likely have voted in favour as it suited them would they not?

I don't know if your a Salford fan or not?

For the record whilst I understand the reasoning for a salary cap, it has done nothing to improve the competition.

Doesn't he know that historically attempts at world domination end in failure, admittedly not at the first real 'test'