I am a Salford fan and I was at the game last night, I would like to say I totally agree with Brian Mc, he has hit the nail on the head the sooner Dr K shuts up and let's Rugby people run the team the better.
I would also like to say what a great organisation Leeds Rhinos are, great team,Stadium, Staff and of course the fans, I wish you all the best in the top 8.

I said it about Adam Pearson when he took over at FC and said the same about Dr Gobsh##e clueless business men should never come into a sport they know naff all about and scream as loud as possible about A.What they are going to do and how good their teams will be and B.Slag off people who have been running successful Clubs within that sport for years.
Kockrash is f'kin idiot with a big gob and a reckless way of throwing a few quid around then bemoaning his costs and winding up orders when its revealed how reckless he was when avoiding due diligence or hiring a monkey to do it for him.
Good on Mc.D for speaking out i also notice Gobsh##e has yet to produce a S.Burgess or Sonny Bill type signing he boasted about should the Marquee rule get the ok.

Whether Brian is right or wrong doesn't really matter, its not his place to talk about another club like that.

Adam Pearson is anything but a "clueless business man".

This.

I agree with what he said. I am glad someone high profile in RL has said it.

But the Leeds coach shouldn't be involving himself in other clubs affairs in this manner.

I think his comments were more intended as a motion of support for the Salford players, what McDermott knows a lot about is motivation and management of professional yet often very young and impressionable players, impressionable also means easily distracted, let down and demoralised - thats where his comments were aimed because he knows what those players had coming when their self proclaimed billionaire gets to speak to them.

Like I said recently, I admire Mcdermotts honesty, he doesn't say things just to be liked. On this occasion though, I couldn't understand why he was so passionate in his criticism of another clubs owner. As our club coach I don't think it his job to spend too much time considering the welfare of other clubs and their players, it's tough enough coping with his own group of players and their welfare. If he was commenting on another club for the benefit of the Rhinos, i.e, slating Wigan for teaching nasty tackling techniques, or slating an opposing club's owner for unsettling one of our own players say, then I'd be more than happy for him to comment so passionately. If he felt the need to get that off his chest last night, it is his decision to do so, but I would rather he spoke passionately on issues to benefit or concerning our own club.

In a roundabout way, isn't that what his comments were doing? I know Leeds don't necessarily have the same issues at the top right now but in some way is he not underlining that the way it is ran at Leeds is of benefit and needs to stay as such, in case maybe there is a sense a little behind the scenes that circumstances are moving very, very slightly towards the Salford side of the spectrum a couple of notches?

ie. 'Koukash is a joke and it is his fault' means just that but is also code for saying 'if Leeds, or any other club (if I have / am being nudged towards the door) think of running things like that they can jog on and I will be off as it won't work...'

Well for me he's allowed to talk about the reason he feels the opposition he just played were so poor. That his opinion is controversial shouldn't mean he can't or shouldn't.

People can say it's not his place to talk about it.....but whose place is it to talk about it and will they have the balls to come out publicly and do so against Koukash?

Mac does not do PC thank goodness. You can argue that he should not comment on the owner of another team but his side had just put 70 points past Salford and what he said was on behalf of the dispirited Salford players who he knows did not give their best for off field reasons.

So you can argue that the paying public has a right to know why the game was not a contest which in a way brings the game into disrepute. As others have said he will have inside information as to the off field goings on at Salford and being the honest sort that he is let his views be known.

In speaking up for players and coaches I am sure his own players and other teams besides Salford will respect Mac for saying what he did.

I think you may be reading too much into a match result. Why didn't he speak out when Wire put 80 past Wakefield a couple of months back, didn't that bring the game into disrepute ? There are a lot of mercenaries at Salford that should have been giving 100% for their loyal band of fans that were at Headingley last night, Koukash wasn't wearing a pair of boots and tackling people, he pays the players good money to do that. The players owe it to the fans, let's not look beyond that before we start feeling too sorry for them and their abysmal showing.