£700,000

Can just see the queue of clubs at the AJ Bell stadium right now!!

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Partying like it's 1996..

"The hottest property in Super League". Yeah ok mate.

That article is so, so funny.



Can you imagine a Chairman speaking like that now (Bar possibly Koukash?)?

That's why I posed it. I randomly remembered the ramblings at the time being similar to Koukash's (good memory me). Also the "world record fee" guff. Cant remember the final fee we got for Harris but it was sod all like £1.3m maybe 10% of that, if that.

... and we got another seven years out of Lee Penny....

Funny that Leeds were interested in Penny. They really were on their ass at the start of Super League I. I think they finished just above bottom.

I still remember our victory against them in Rnd1. My first away game. 22-18. Mateaki Mafi scored the winning try.

Lee Penny scored four tries in a defeat at Headingley.

True, we finished 10th out of 12 with only PSG (who failed to pick up a single point away from home) and Workington who shipped in over a 1,000 points finishing below us.

I remember going that game with my dad, was a really sunny barmy evening. Penny scored one from a scrum move! What year was that?

2000 www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... ching.html

2000 www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... ching.html

£700, 000

What a bargain


Who does he play for again?


Sorry I thought we were talking about Arsenal.

Quote ="Wirefan"2000 www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... ching.html'" John Whalley; fine journalist.

Quote ="Wirefan"2000 www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... ching.html'" John Whalley; fine journalist.

£700,000.00 for "the hottest property in Super League, what a bargain!

Correct. All the RL journalists from the broadsheets are/were good. Some from the lower end of the spectrum, not so.

I remember watching this game in an Albufeiran bar with Mrs Goldblatt, and on the next table along, were the parents of Ian Smith (ex SL ref, who's first game was the week before, and it was a game we'd lost). On seeing how peed off we were, to lose a SENSATIONAL game of RL, Mrs Smith bought Mrs Goldblatt a jar of Sangria....no whisky for me, though...miserable sod



That game is the reason I LOVE this game we watch. We didn't win (winning's a bonus, that we hope happens more often than not).......but I was ENTERTAINED.
I go to games to be ENTERTAINED
Wins and trophies are a (nice) bonus

Salford are starting to become a real laughing stock now arnt they? Bad attendances and players wanting to leave. I do feel a bit sorry for them, if they get relegated I'm not sure they could get back into Super League.

I think youll find Mafi scored the first, and Ian Knott scored the winner my friend.

Well Dr NoClass, be careful what you wish for. Having got your long-dreamed marquee ruling through via repeated spitting of the dummy, the players in your own back yard want out.

This sums up the whole predicament with NoClass - his empire is built on sand. At first he thought he could sign a load of 30-somethings and win the Challenge Cup, now he thinks Billy Slater will come and play in front of 3000 people for a squillion quid. In the meantime someone has left the stable door open.

Thought it was Knott, Harris then Mafi.

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You win

What's even more mental about that Leeds Wire game is that Adrian Morley played. 19 years. Mental