The good Dr is now laying into the RFL because they won't let him fast track Salford from being cannon fodder!!

According to sky sports news:

And he (Koukash) did not hold back in his criticism on Thursday, by saying: "Super League is a brilliant sport but you have to realise that it is being run by the RFL and I have lost all confidence in the RFL running Super League.

"The people running Super League have failed to grow the sport over the last five years and the time has come for them to step aside and let the clubs run the competition.

"I received verbal promises from various authorities last July that a marquee player would be introduced but the clubs, with the support of the RFL, last week managed to block the latest vote.

Brushed under the carpet

“They now want to discuss it in November and that to me means brushing it under the carpet.

"I am investing in the region of £2 million a year into this club and I want to make sure something I am investing in has a future.

"I am determined to stay in the sport. I am seriously addicted to rugby league." Blah blah blah!!

He's obviously used to getting hos own way.

Toys and pram come to mind. It's easy to be so vocal and belligerent when you have pockets full of money and to bleat about how you're "trying to do good for the game". But for me, moves like this will only serve to create a bigger gap between top and bottom clubs as the bottom clubs cannot afford the luxuries that the Dr can.

*Please note: This will offend you if you are a fan of Wigan, Warrington, St Helens or Leeds.

Boo hoo poor old Marwan

He isn't the only one with those kind of views. The 'scrap the cap' argument gets a regular airing on Sky. See this weeks Backchat for details. Amazingly Stevo defended the current set up. Good for him.

There's no fans to watch these superstars that he wants to bring in. He needs to spend money on somehow getting more people though the gate. I don't think the location of the stadium helps, free (if you have a season ticket) shuttle bus services?

Noted that Wane at Wigan was saying along the lines that they would not be going for a marquee player if it happened as they would much sooner bring the youngsters on.Cant remember where I read it but that has to be the way to go against paying a player a bucket full of money and the rest of the squad then unhappy and thinking stuff it let him take the hammer.

Marquee player - what, like Jarrad Hickey?

Suppose he is just trying to copy us when we signed Wally Lewis.

He would have been quite comfortable wearing a marquee.

The Dr is never happy - I don't even bother reading his rants any more, as they all amount to the same thing; "Boo hoo, I've got loads of money, so let me do what I want, boo hoo, Nigel Wood is a donkey."

He's shot his bolt for me - concentrate on Salford and stop trying to dictate terms to the rest of us.

I think it was on teletext where i read the statement from Wane. He said some thing along the lines of "we are leagues apart from Salford on the marquee signing thinking" I thought some from Salford would have been on here by now defending the good doctor.

Wanes got the advantage of Wigan being years in front of Salford. Koolca$h wants to bridge the gap as quickly as possible. Wigan have no problems coming over to the Wakefield District and splash the cash to entice the local youngsters.

This is all about him getting Salford fast-tracked, nothing else.
He has the money, what he doesn't have is the patience to either wait for it happen of for the people "running" the game.
It's not about bringing marquee players to RL, its about bringing marquee signings to Salford.
He knows full well he could afford to assemble the NSW side if he wanted, he also knows that if he waved enough money around many SL chairmen would be happy to give up their "golden ticket" in order for him to do so.
The problem would be that on the back of it, he would then still have to let the greater population in for nowt in order to fill his ground and make it at least appear justified and not just some mahoosive ego trip.
IMO he is a mentile!!

Completely agree with his sentiments re the RFL. I wouldn’t like the clubs to run the league but the sooner Wood et al are out of the game the better. It needs a complete outsider with fresh ideas and impetus.

So how are Salford managing to stay under the salary cap then ??????
Brian Carney said on the Superleague show a couple of weeks ago that the money thrown at Kevin Locke to come over was "eye-watering"....(I believe £300,000 was mentioned ?????). Are they still able to pay a player £50 per week and his missus £10,000 per week to "work" in the club shop ????

How much money does he have anyway? He says he is pumping 2 million in a year, which is a worry.

I think the most sensible thing to do is to exempt players that come through your scholarship / academy from the salary cap. This wouldn't affect Salford too much but imagine the stars Leeds could bring over.

It would seem that the Dr's plan to get more people through the door is to sign high profile players. How about use his wealth to cover the city in Salford posters, flags, bus advertisements, free travel to the ground etc etc kids for a quid.

We offloaded Tim Smith to yourselves and Shannon McPherson was released. Kevin Locke was offered more money to join Scottish RU clubs, but chose Salford for less.

Cool story bro.

As was reported at the media briefing this week between both Locke and Koukash. The kid didn't want to switch codes.

According to this Australian article from October 2013, he's worth 900 million Aus Dollars. That's just shy of 500 million English green queens!

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Crickey! Why doesn't he buy the super league?!

That's what he is trying to do

Be careful what you say about him if you want to keep Tim Smith, Cas fans got a little bit to personal with their comments and it ended up pricing them out of any chance they had of signing Marc Sneyd

Smithy only plays for one team,Wakey,he forgot what winning was when at Salford.