It's been painful staying silent and reading about the continued demise of the Club I used to follow with a passion.

News of player sales and and mere speculation around any replacements long after pre-season should have started.
None existant plans for season ticket sales.
No communication with the fans at all about the club's future
Guesswork and generally flimsy reporting from the MEN
The 'future investment' turns into 'limited handout'
Dwindling numbers on the forum and even fewer with anything positive to say.

So thought I'd have a look at the 'Red Planet' to see what the club are officially up to....................'Donate your unwanted toys' was the headline!!!! Just about sums our Club up really.

So what happens now........................I guess the usual 'support at all costs brigade will turn up in hope yet again next season (Not knocking anyone by the way for doing so), but for me and many others who saw the writing on the wall from the day KH departed and more recently the debacle of the 'In Matt we trust' days, I'm afraid the long slide into oblivion will continue.

'Supporters Trust?' anyone with ANY sense surely must realise with a Club of Salford's fan base and resources it's an absolute non-starter of an idea.

The only hope, was and still is, a magnanamous benefactor and the failure of one to appear will be the end of the Club as we know it.

The City Council do not have the will or means to bail us out. Peel Holdings have, and always will have, a self serving strategy and does not align itself with the future of RL in Salford, other than as a sweetner to any future commercial development plans in the area.

So...........................The loyal fans, (those that are left), can hand wring, cast blame and speculate all they like, but without the aforesaid benefactor. There is simply no future for Salford at SL Level.

AND it's absolutely tragic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've not posted this forum for sometime but even I as one of our more positive of fan is fretting. What's worrying me is the time this take over bid is taking. With the season due to start in six or so weeks it seems inconceivable that we haven't yet seen the take over resolved- why? what possible miracle worker can purchase the players required and train a complete squad such a short time? surely JW and peel must see that as the weeks go by, our chances of competing are diminishing, fans are rightly becoming anxious. Worrying times indeed....

Hate to say I told you so but... this outcome was always going to be the case in the current climate.

Hope Salford come out the other side of this, be it with a knight in shining armour or in the championship as a newco. It is now not only a matter of money but time as well, the clock is ticking to the start of the season and some difficult decisions need making pdq. I expect some of your more valuble players will be offered around to the highest bidder to give a little extra time to find a buyer, otherwise they will go for next to nothing anyway if the club enters adminisration. I have a feeling that the RFL will handle this more like the Wakefield way rather than the Bradford one so the board needs to buy as much time as possible and hope for the best.

Good luck.

In recent years the Reds have brought very little to Rugby League. Matter of fact nothing IMO.

Like huddersfield have brought much more!

fergus... that poster is not a hudds/fartown fan... he just uses that name on the forums as a starting point for rl etc..