Ha ha ha. Kosh. Makes me chuckle.

Always mopping up the negative posts like a caped crusader.

Captain Red Hall

If the rumours about Sale's finances are true, they are already more like Salford than you'd think...

The format of the playoffs is all wrong.

If salford do go tits up then there situation is no different to that of wakefield who the rfl basically turned there backs on because they owned nothing of value.
The rfl loaned/avanced money to bradford because they own the lease to odsal, and need a club that can garenttee 5 or 6 thousand home supporters, who can pay a bit of rent every now and then.

I agree with you though,this isnt an rfl issue worthy of getting involved in yet.

You're all missing the most important factors. If you look at the statistics, more clubs seem to get into financial trouble in seasons when Leeds get all the 50-50 calls and win the grand final. Also in the first 15 minutes of a new season, Wigan are the best team at avoiding a winding up order by about 3.86%, and according to try-tracker Sam Tomkins plays a large part in that.

Yours Sincerely

Phil Clarke

I'm with you there Phil, you've got to get the message out!

Yours

Stevo

Jesus, imagine them in a tax court.

"Why doesn't the barrister try an early chip over the top?"
"You must not let that cheque bounce, it's simple stuff".

Perhaps they should bring back the Phil Clarke 'financial' gains meter. At last a proper use for it.

I blame the one road in one road out. Who wants to spend longer in the car park than watching the game

At Salford? Me.

League Express reporting this morning that HMRC have joined the winding up petition. Apparently we owed SG £15k which has been paid, but we now have a PAYE bill of £150k. Peel are not in the running to buy the club but we're talking to someone else. Apparently.

Who knows.

Also mentioned was players wages due this week. There seems to be only one way this can go. Who wants to come in and throw 200,000 straight down the pan.

Given the "tax avoidance by not making a profit" method that big businesses (Starbucks, eBay, Vodafone etc)seem to use to avoid paying UK taxes, I'm surprised that our loss leading sports clubs end up in trouble with HMRC........

They get in trouble because they don't pass on the stoppages they've made from people's wages. Not paying the Revenue was a great way to iron out short term cashflow problems; thankfully now rightly being clamped down on.