And if your fellow fans could save us from the "everyone hates us, they always have the knives out" nonsense. Absolutely nobody at all in the history of your club has ever given one single toss about you, including the population of Salford.

The moral high ground from of all people a Bradford fan how ironic - Remind us how many times have your club been deducted points ?

Thanks for the practical example. There's no moral high ground there. I'm just suggesting you all drop the victim act. Your punishment is less than a third of the maximum allowed.

For the record.

Bradford: 1900-01, 1901-02, 2006, 2012, 2014

Salford: 1897-98, 1901-02, 2013, 2016

So one more than you. Possibly the same if you lose the appeal.

Who are you arguing with? Not one Salford fan on this thread since the punishment was announced has suggested the punishment was unfair.
According to Magic SuperBeetle this was the maximum punishment because of when the offences occurred. He is generally really strong around rules like this. I'm no expert but you might want to check what the maximum punishment was before you make statements

On this thread, no. But all over FB, and in several places on your forum. I'm choosing to say it here because I don't want to wade onto club forums starting arguments about it. I don't want to start arguments here about it either. Fortunately, since one only need read the words being said to see that it is happening, there's not much chance of that kind of argument breaking out.

Fair enough but there's plenty saying it's deserved on social media and on forums too

It’s been reported that Salford are to appeal the deduction. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/36139621 If the maximum sanction has been implemented, then they have nothing to lose however, I wonder if there could be a sting in the tail by provoking the governing body? As it stands they still have an outside chance of making the top eight, but a further deduction would be a bridge too far. At least they will be smarter in the future at hiding additional payments & honouring contracts with players that have them over a barrel.

It’s been reported that Salford are to appeal the deduction. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/36139621 If the maximum sanction has been implemented, then they have nothing to lose however, I wonder if there could be a sting in the tail by provoking the governing body? As it stands they still have an outside chance of making the top eight, but a further deduction would be a bridge too far. At least they will be smarter in the future at hiding additional payments & honouring contracts with players that have them over a barrel.

That last paragraph hits the nail on the head. We all know numerous clubs have been "manipulating" the cap for years and we (Salford) were just not very clever in how we went about it and deserve to be punished ACCORDINGLY. FFS, the way some of you are going on it's as though we brought in Inglis, Slater and Thurston to help us avoid the drop when (from what I've heard) figures involved aren't that high and partly involve a player who was way past his best and in all honesty probably made little difference to our squad and had minimal affect on the teams around us. Compare this to a team that brought in possibly the world's best forward 10 ot so years ago and deferred payments to avoid the cap and is there a huge amount of difference? Like I said, breaking the cap was wrong and we deserve punishing but please some of the comments on here (mainly from Bulls fans and Jools who is obsessed with Salford) are just ridiculous.

As for people quoting FB and Social Media as a yardstick for public opinion.... F*ck me!!! Let's face it, they're both just (in general) mouthpieces for people that like to talk !

There is now precedent for accepting the return of all Sky monies in exchange for continued membership of the competition. That money to be used for lining the other member's pockets rather than help with developing the game. As an excellent and fastidious record keeper I'm sure Marwan knows this. His share of that money paid for some, but not all, of this deliberate cheating.

You know exactly what i mean and I CBA getting into discussion about it. The fact that millions of people follow the likes of Joey Barton, Kim Kardashian et al on Twitter etc is a sad indictment of the world we live in. People are obsessed with detailing every point of their lives in a FB post..... Feel the need to tweet 100 times a day for some sort of attention and literally beg for FB and Instagram mates because it makes them feel loved/important.

Usually the most vocal people are the ones with very little of note to say. Just my opinion of course but one I'm happy to stick by.