why does every story always come out in the m.e.n first???? the club need to get a bit more professional if u ask me!

everyone is judging a story in a news paper rather than waiting to see what happens from the club and see what they coment before we slate anyone at the club and malcolm alker. So lets support the team tomorrow and wait for clubs response to the comments.

All very weird. All very unprofessional. It seems no one upstairs at the club sees eye to eye, And surely this is amplified thru thr players into there performance. This rubbish doesn't go on upstairs at other clubs and if it did it would be handled better.
[iAlker sent home because he didnt look well.
Taking pain killers for a neck injury
Seeking union advice
Private talks with JW[/i

Weird unprofessional dog poo. Of course its all hear say ATM but I gurantee there's more to it and it's worse than what we already know.

We just need a complete overhaul upstairs. Everyone. Start a fresh. People who are respected and professional. Pathetic.

Wardley Red!!!!! i think you will find the club are very proffesional in these matters if certain people who are involved go to the papers what can the club do about that? If you read the article there are no quotes from the club.Surely the correct way to deal with this would be to have the meeting internally then if necessary release a statement and not play the whole thing out in the evening news!!

The problem with that method of thinking is that the club will have been asked re:Alker situation, and they have not bothered to respond or make a club statement, before this story went to the web, which is the usual unprofessional "sweep it under the carpet" way of running the club we have come to expect from the management/board, come on guy's grow some b@ll$

Fair comment, but the club should as "a professional" organisation quash any derogative rumours, rather than letting speculation give poor light of the coaching or playing staff, not all press speculation/reports is good news, "any news is good advertising is not always true".

Be realistic folks - when matters like this arise, involving contracts of employment etc. as an employer you have to be so careful not to prejudice any possible proceedings that it's inevitable the club must stay tight-lipped until m'learned friends have given the OK to some statement.
ANYTHING else would be unwise in the extreme. Expecting the club to give a running commentary on events like this is totally unrealistic IMHO

spot on BF
Quite why certain folk expect to be privvy to all that transpires within the club baffles me.

How long did it take Wigan to release a statement about Martin Gleeson?

Are they unprofessional too???

Exactly!! the club will have taken advice and will have been told to keep it as a internal matter, why people like wardley red think it should be spread around like gossip is beyond me.

As an outsider,it does seem a shambles,first Bomber(claiming he is ill)then Alker(claiming he is ill).Interesting to hear Alker talk about him bringing his union rep in to the mix??? Alker saying he isn't unwell,and was in the gym with 2 of your players this morning??

This shambles of a situation needs sorting a.s.a.p...whole clear out and new coaching structure needs putting in place,just back from cas,we the fans who pay the ages deserve answers instead of the usual un-professional way the club awlays handles situations like this!

The word brewery comes to mind,nothing against Malcolm,but he should not be here coaching anyway.
I bet Mcrae did not have any say in that decision, Its the Titanic looking for the Iceberg.
but the football manager always comes up smelling of roses.

Still no news on McRea - by now the club should have some idea if he is coming back, if not a severance deal should be arranged.
Salford make too many mistakes by bringing in "friends" or looking after ex players. Sims has too much control - who would want to coach under him?
We have a Chairman with limited funds who is relying on people who constantly let him down. I think some of his choices about the people he surrounds himself with have been poor.

Alker should have left at the end of his playing career and his reputation would have been intact, as it is, there's no smoke without fire, and i suspect the situation is now untenable for both Alker and the club. It isn't his first offence - Floridagate was a warning.