The thing is, if they approach a Club to ask permission to approach a player and they give permission, nobodies done anything wrong. I understand the possibility of unsettling a player but if everything is done to all parties satisfaction as these things obviously have done, I don't see a problem.

As a Salford fan we have been on the other end of it too. Where a Club is buttering-up a player soon to come off contract and that player loses focus and professionalism. Maybe nobody did anything wrong in the process of this happening but it sticks in the throats of fans who see it differently.

In the case of Chase, when it finally gets announced, the money injected into your Club should be the way that Clubs behave towards one another. I'm not a fan of 'Wealthy' Clubs trying to get something for nothing as has long been the case with Salford losing talent. If money flows between Clubs it can only strengthen the game as a whole.

we agree!?

....I think the best bet a lot of clubs over here have is to get players while they were young. I really like Ellis and at 21 he could become a really top half-back. OK he might not, but nobody has a crystal ball.

Like you said, to suggest we would get a like-for-like with Chase is lunacy, merely because we have his money freed up. That money could be better spent to secure the longer term future of the club, and who knows, one day we might be the ones with a big investor and that's when we can consider top players

Why would chase go to persuade a player to sign for you when you already had noble and the ceo go???? And if rumour of us havin an approach knocked back for tim smith is true then theirs no reason why you wouldnt have been knocked back too

Please explain why any other Club would get knocked back because Cas did?

Because they dont want to sell him???

Maybe your offer wasn't good enough?

maybe they didn't want to sell to a local rival?

How about Robert Hicks. He's fairly cheap, but very effective...

No logic in selling to a potential play off rival either

So the point is basically your opinion on matters?

The fact is, you personally have no idea why a Club would accept one offer over another. Making a claim that every Club should get the same response as Cas got is very naive.

So is assuming every player wilk want to go to salford and that every bid for players will be accepted

Wakefield have documented financial issues and selling their best player would possibly ease those worries,however they want to establish themselves as a top 8 playoff team,selling their best player to a rival wont make that happen

And yes this is all my opinion pretty much what fills these boards are peoples opinions

Thanks for those tasty morsels of insight you've provided.

I never stated or presumed every player will want to go to Salford. My personal beliefs are actually the opposite. It's fine to have opinions as long as you're prepared to have them challenged when they venture into 'patently stupid' territory. Your opinion was that because Cas got turned down by Wakey it was beyond your comprehension that another Club might get an offer accepted.

I'll apologize now on behalf of everyone else who's had to read this tripe for a page or so.