A very thorough and fair summary of the game as it stands.I maintain it was farcical to expect skint owners to bail Salford out.The buzzards were hovering looking for bargains.I am not sure on the atest fine details are preferred bidders negotiating with the rfl or Saford .Who decides wheer players go rfl or salford.
rfl is also skint they have arranged ashes series but that yield wont go far.
Will a struggling sky reduce our payment next time round Can we find other partners
Perhaps the muted takeover by the nrl is the way forward as they have the appropiate negotiating/marketing skills
The pie master wants a bigger slice seems the only way will be fewer teams at the top level Wilkin says 8 teams thats not from his own deductions is he pushing someones agenda

Based on our recent performances, I’d be tempted to make offers for the likes of Mellor, Morgan and Shorrocks. Sam Stone if quota exceptions are put in place. And offer Dwyer and McNamara the other way. 

Whilst I agree McNamara & Dwyer aren’t good enough we have bigger problems, the top teams are ruthless and if players aren’t good enough they make decisions quickly.


We have so much dead cap space it’s a joke, if you look at our squad outside the top 17 the most are inexperienced young players who are rarely going to get a game. 


I know the clubs strategy is to go with youth but the likes of Wilde, Brown, Rothwell, Derbyshire aren’t going to get a game, some like Towse and Brough have been unfortunate and are probably more for 2026. We sign a young prop from Castleford (Brad Martin) who has 40 SL appearances but hasn’t played a competitive game for us and has been loaned out for half of his 2 year deal even when we are short of props.


Pene is never going to make it, he is just like Nakabuwai and Seumanufagai as the quota forward we always seem to sign that just have any aggression, other teams would have already paid him off to improve the team as you can’t have quota players not playing and knowing we need a HB so much.


We have had Halfback problems for 2 years and never addressed them, Lachlan Lam looks like he’s sulking as he can’t get an NRL team, he’s asking for a fortune and his form is diabolical, if his dad wasn’t coach he would have been dropped.


People may not like my opinion but I don’t think our recruitment and retention has been as good as made out.


Just have a look at our team from the GF in 2022, we had Inu, Macdonald and Ferguson in our backs, I know the quota rule is different but we had quality players in important positions.


We have a quality pack now but as you can clearly see we just can’t score enough with our back line and halves.


I think we are short another second row, a halfback, a centre and a ball playing loose forward.

I'd be in for a return of Mellor and Stone, as much as I like Shorrocks I don't think he offers that much that we've haven't got already.


It will always be a shame that Inu is 38, need him just for goal kicking alone.


I seem to recall most on here suggesting that this year would be a transition year...well here we are, transitioning.  I'm comfortable in saying we probably over performed in the last two years, possibly helped by many other teams being more rotten and also bang average than usual but we are where we are.


The way the league looks now, Wigan and KR are way ahead of the rest of the league on-field, that we still sit in the middle bunch can't be that bad.


It simply would appear that Asiata was really key to our whole team performance but than again we ground out results last year when he was injured so it may well be an attitude thing with the squad.