Any playing elsewhere?

It's not too different for us in terms of numbers, niall and the walne brothers regulars, lannon back in now, not sure why he was dropped! wood and Bibby also played a bit.
Connor wilkinson played against wigan, I think gee and wilkinson have played this season also.
Then elsewhere we have sneyd, theo, Turner, ratchford top of my head

That's 13. Although admittedly the standard of the players we still have isn't close to yours. We aren't very good at keeping our better players...

I cannot fault your reasoning Newbridge Wolf and, if you base the choice on "a club has genuine thriving roots", then HKR has to stay up. Both Hudd and Salford suffer from round ball rivals; I deliberately typed "suffer". However you omit another sympton of the current milieu: the "instant coffee" expectation of people. Instant gratification in other words. So to succeed, you must succeed at once. People are not patient. That is an important factor when trying to get a community feeling. Once you have success, you can buy a little time with it (as Hudd has done) but it runs out. Putting the words success and Salford in the same sentence ... and I've being supporting them for over 50 years.
Of the three, HKR would survive best in Championship but I want none of us to go down.

I remeber when I used to have nothing against Salford. They were a team of hard workers with the likes of Alker or players with a lot of potential and seemingly no means to keep them, Myler, Ratchford. The Willows was a quirky old ground, but the whole set up was honest.

Then the Doc came in and most things changed. You had a team of mercenaries, playing in a soulless ground (don't get me wrong understand you needed to leave the Willows). Obviously the Doctor lead some fans to have illusions of grandeur and hasn't helped anyone's perception by the way he's approached the game. Though it is kind of ironic that for most of this season he seemed to do everything right in terms of taking a step back, and when the ish hit the fan from his previous meddling he reverted to type.

Are you serious ?

To raise the amount of cash needed to fill the void, if someone like Koucash walked away would be huge.
Part of the problem at Salford is the size of the fan base and quite frankly, it's just not possible to raise the necessary monies to sustain them in the top flight.
They are stuck with a very expensive stadium (rumored to cost them 60k per game) which is away from Salford itself and at this point in time they need someone with deep pockets
Even in SL they are losing money. This could only be worse IF they ended up playing in the Championship.

I sooner Leigh didn't get promoted to be honest.
I can't stand the coach or the owner.

Do you even know who our coach is this season?

If so I would love to know what your issue is with him?

As much as I hate Cas, their academy is (annoyingly) in a completely different league to Salford's.

football is king in hudds, as it is in the uk

football club top of the league and packing out the ground at the moment and sold over 15k season tickets

giants were playing infront of less than 500 in the 90's so still a big growth in support compared to other clubs... 80's-90;s a mossed generation of supports for us while other had big crowds in those years who still support and took kids who prob now go too, we started all over again but finishing bottom of the league all those years in sl late 90's early 2000's also lost us generations of fans

I'm pretty sure these SL players came through the Cas academy: Joe Westerman (Warrington), Daryl Clark (Warrington), Jordan Thompson (Hull FC), Craig Huby (Hudds), Ryan Brierley (Hudds), Shaun Lunt (Hull KR), Richard Owen (Wakefield), Joe Arundel (Wakefield)

Probably more tbh

Aye didn't say it wasnt, just interested! I thought there must have been some at other clubs, can't believe I forgot about Clarke.
I don't think our academy is THAT bad, by no means great, but our ability to hold on to our talented youngsters is awful.

That was in reply to a previous post questioning whether it would be better being a more community based club at a lower level where the fans can feel part of something, or the situation now where (from the outside at least) the club seems to be just about surviving with massive disconnect from the fanbase.

I don't think it's impossible to compete in SL (at the lower end at least) without a backer or big fanbase, but it would need some good people in charge and a good youth based setup.

Oh yes - I forgot about Larne.

A few more of Cas Academy players Olivier Elima (Dragons), Liam Watts (Hull FC), Adam Walker (Hull KR) and Matty Dawson (Leigh).