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