Salford ripping Hull apart, another scoreless loss on the cards?

Not working next sunday which means i would normally go think ill wait and see if the lad gets picked for the reserves before i decide what to do

It's Mother's Day next Sunday so I know what we're doing

Treating Mrs. FIL by taking her to Salford then....


She will be made up.....

She is as pee'd off as the rest of us, so that definitely won't be happening

Yeah, I bet.....
"Come on love I'm taking you out for lunch to the pub....."


What's that you say?
That's a rugby ground over there?
I wonder who plays there?
Well, I never, its Salford.....
Well as we are here we may as well go and watch.....

If they can do that to Hull FC away I can't imagine what they will do to us at their place!

A repeat of last season, right now I'd take that as it would mean we at least scored.

Right now they are the opposite of us in that they look full of attacking threat and ideas. As a club they are not that far away from us in terms of revenue, crowds but they are light years ahead of us on the field. Some say they don't pay the bills and the take-over of the ground by the council could be an issue, but no one can argue they are doing great things on the pitch right now.

It's strange that, even in the last season of John Kear at BV, when we had a squad that cost just over £100 and we were getting beaten every week, we still managed to score some points.
Despite the massive progress with the ground, which looked like it would never happen, the feeling of despair is bloody awful.

I was quite worried pre-season with who left and who we brought in, but I don't think this is the worst squad we've had. James Webster had much less to work with and suffered loads of injuries. Looking at the first 7 or 8 games, with a rookie coach, I couldn't see us winning more than 1 or 2, which now looks a long way off!! I suppose with public enemy No.1 out of the way let's see if the attack improves, but confidence must be rock bottom. If Smith & Lino don't click, and we don't at least start to trouble teams, we have to look at bringing a stand-off in, or just hope and pray Cas keep struggling! Could be both winless when we play them over Easter.......

Exactly right. Their recruitment has been excellent, with I believe a similar spend to us, and certainly nothing like the top teams. They had a team ripped apart, losing Hastings, Dudson, Lussick, Evalds, Lui, etc, and they have re-built in a short space of time. How we could have done with say signing, Sneyd, Ackers, Dupree, instead of Gaskell, Hood & Butler.

It may well be true that Salford have the same player salary spend as us, but looking at some of their players mentioned in previous posts I reckon they must have a financial wizard working for them.Sneyd is,and always has been, a top player,Dupree,I think, was mentioned as a future star not long since,and Brodie Croft,Man of Steel and recently signed on a 7 year deal, won't have come cheap.Either way they have put together a very talented team.

A bug difference between salford spend and ours is we spend around 300k a year on youth they dont spend a penny,theres ya ackers and croft monies there

That's a very fair point, but it wont go against them when grading comes around.
No mention of player development by IMG.
So take your pick

I may be wrong but within the performance category im sure it mentions academy performance too,as i say i may be wrong and if i am its shocking from img they dont include youth development

No mention of any academy or youth development in the criteria. All based on first team league performance with potential small bonuses for cup wins.

Shows what little IMG know then,

For some reason i have always had a soft spot for Salford that we were very similar clubs before they got there new stadium at AJ not spending the full cap, Now just look at the difference on field performances they play with pace all over something we can only dream of doing atm, it's so sad that are recruitment as not been that good over the last 2 seasons but like one of our former coach said you can't go in Harrods with a pound and expect to buy any thing good.

Well either Salford have not allowed what little budget they have to be wasted on all of rubbish we were happy to sign.

Or they are very good shoplifters.

Well if the rumours of them not paying their bills are correct, then it is clearly the latter

Tell you what Fil, when you look at our respective avatars ,it's hard to tell which one depicts the real widow ty. Are they both the same bloke

Completely wrong. Clubs can't achieve an A grading if they don't run an academy.
Salford could finish top of the league and win every competition going but unless they start running an academy, they will never get a better grading than a B.

Just read the criteria wish you were right about this but it would appear that there is no points awarded for academy in the final document

If you have something that says otherwise please post a link

Go on then, where does it say that. Because there is no mention of it in the criteria set out last week?

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The Featherstone chairman has reiterated that under the guidelines from IMG running an Academy is of no benefit. He clearly points out that this is the last season to gain promotion and any clubs in the Championship will struggle to ever get back to SL after that hence the spending.
He also appears to believe that the next Sky deal will be lower meaning clubs below SL will be cut loose monetary wise.