We don't need a Russian billionaire or Arab taking over we only need someone whos got the means to spend upto the salary cap each year something we have never done! And as for the (same situation for years to come) we won't be around in years to come pal, we're losing money left right and centre and unless we get someone in we'll be gone by the next lot of franchises are given out!

OK then "pal" you go and find someone willing to put in a extra million with no return on that investment to take us up to the full cap.

It is only four hundred thousand to spend the salary cap,get rid of Simms,and It comes down to, three hundred and
fifty thousand.

Wonderful logic lance as ever - so you take the place of your Australian mate and work for nowt and then you arrange all the players contracts, sort out all the travel & training arrangements, attend all training sessions for the first team and the Under 20s, have multi meetings with scouts, attend all the amateur games available in the time permitted, meet with parents of all the Under 20s teams, sort out Doctors rosters, attend all Board Meetings, liaise with the Sale set up, go to Red Hall to discuss refereeing, also go there with players carded or on Report - etc etc

So in your world you will do all these jobs for nothing - so thats a starter - now - another £350k to find - your call.............if you have time after doing those jobs!

As it is such an important role, I am amazed how we have managed to survive as a club in the previous years before appointing a director of football.

Loving the little tantrum there lol.
And it's not my job to find a financial backer for the club, that's Wilkinsons role surely, and what your not getting is if Salford did spend upto the cap and become successful you would see a return most definately. That's the one thing most people in Salford have never seen, a successful Salford team!

When we were successful in the 70's we still only got 6500 -7000 average crowds, and Snape sold the Willows variety centre and the club at the end of the 70's because despite all this success both were leaking money and the players were only part timers. Wilky tried to bring back the Willows VC to its former glories but acts got dearer and people wouldn't pay so there was never any real revenue coming in and as we progressed in the new century the crowds got smaller and the venue was only used a couple of nights a week, in the 70's it was open every night with a big name playing there.
The Salford millionaires are not interested in Rugby League, all we can hope for is for one of the faithful to drop £100m on the Euro lottery and invest in the club.

But Wigan and Leeds were not that good in the 70's. and Leeds crowds built up with the demise of Leeds United, Wigans by going full timt 10 years before anybody else.

I was using them as examples, you can add Saints, Warrington, Widnes or whoever but crowds in the 70's were poor across the board, I think Chico or Walshy had some stats on that?

we did the "treble" in 2008