You said it.

Middleton_Loiner, is no one but Leeds able to be competitive in Super League? You're basically moaning about a man who quite frankly you seem jealous of, because he is making the league a bit more competitive. Surely stronger teams in SL makes a better competition and better entertainment. So instead of mocking someone who wants to throw money at our sport and who consistently getting Rugby League attention then please go back to watching football.

Are you really getting offended because it looks like they'll be another strong team in our sport?

Until Dr Koukash puts his money where his mouth is and gets an 8k+ average at Salford I'll continue to regard his views as having little credibility.

It's great to see that the Dr has managed to ruffle the feathers of the so called big clubs already, despite us being a lowly 10th position in the league standings. Imagine the mock outrage if we actually do something radical like make the play offs?

The long standing era of RFL standing for Rugby Football Leeds is coming to an end.

Come on lets get real, the games been stagnating for years, we need people from the outside who can see R.L in a different light and bring fresh ideas in like Maurice Lindsey and before him, Brian Snape, to bring up to speed with the real world

Wow, seriously?

How long has this been going on then? Just the last 10 years whilst Leeds have been winning stuff i'm guessing.

It's good to have ambition. I'm sure the good Doc will consider that a great return on his investment!

I think the Dr is ok. He can take things a bit far in his outbursts at times and could maybe do with a bit of self control at times but generally he's fine.

I think there is a bit of concern by other teams fans that we'll have a team storm up and take the trophies (eventually) and I don't think much of the concern is for Salford's well being if he left them.

I think he and the more ambitious thinking is what the sport needs here in the UK but at the same time it's also good that the brakes are being put on him. If he can help introduce a more positive looking competition then so be it, it just has to be done at an appropriate timescale and plan and not rushed to suit Koucash. If he and some of the other chairmen can find a middle ground then it could be very good.

I've not been one for predicting doom or his departure on Salford fans, but the rumours of Newcastle Knights would concern me if I were a Salford fan. Not that he'd give up on Salford but his focus levels on it would surely drop and the signing of the like of Locke would be slimmer in the future as that signing would surely end up at Newcastle instead in the future.

Good point. Now Koukash wants to do what other clubs have done in the past, many RL fans seem to go into meltdown. Probably the same people who start hash tag campaigns on twitter etc.

I hope Koukash makes Salford a massive force in the game. Why would any right minded rugby league fan want anything different?

I'm not sure he will short term and I'm not sure he can display the same patience to play the long game that Caddick and Hetherington did between 1997 and 2004 but it's certainly interesting watching.

Am I alone amonst non-Salford fans in thinking that koukash coming out with sometimes outrageous statements which get airtime isn't necessarily a bad thing?

Not at all, I would however question how much airtime he's getting outside the RL world now though.
And I hope he doesn't believe half the stuff he comes out with.

I think he's good for the sport - investing in a club, bringing in fresh ideas and trying to push through things to improve the league (in terms of being exciting and interesting to other potential investors mainly).

That being said, he's also a complete and utter gobe and to say he's been involved in the sport less than 2 years he could really do to reign it in a little bit sometimes.

No, not at all.

Koukash, for all of his faults, actually speaks very positively and passionately about the game. He clearly wants to make things better.

I'd much rather listen to him than someone like Ian Lenaghan, who's only interest is seemingly in complaining about the governing body without actually demonstrating that he can do any better himself.