If this is true I hope we can attract someone of reputable status or we will look like fools after all the big talk and fist table banging.

Win win situation for the RFL in having the marquee exemption to pass. If Koukash can sign someone like Burgess/Slater then it will obviously be a boom to Super League.

On the otherhand, if Koukash can't deliver a top level signing it will be another nail in his credibility.

I can't imagine many high quality players would want to carry the burden of being classed as a marquee player. Money aside I think it will just add extra pressure with the expectation of being or doing something more special than your teammates. Furthermore I think it will just make these players easy targets for opposing players and supporters to verbally abuse if they make a mistake or aren't playing to their full potential.

What are the others? The odd Twitter outburst and a bit of sailor talk in the media?

Aslong as all clubs are eligible for a marquee player, I'm happy with that. I disagree with the comment regarding only certain clubs able to afford the likes of Burgess etc the idea behind this is clubs show some initiative and get additional sponsors onboard to cover wages. I'm sure even the likes of Wakefield could attract major sponsors etc should they dangle a SBW size carrot infront of them.

Let's not forget the foresight and ambition shown by Wakefield back in the 1980's when they astonishingly signed Wally Lewis on a short term deal.

Saving a club from extinction, recruiting at considerable expense a vastly superior squad to the one he inherited, a squad that has most people tipping the club to reach the play offs, appointing a former GB coach as head coach, creating a level of publicity never previously seen at Salford and rarely, if ever, seen in rugby league.

Balanced against a couple of cringeworthy statements. Yeah his credibility is shot.

Nails? come on the Doc is guilty of putting his mouth into action before his brain sometimes, but I'd imagine that he is only showing the balls to say out loud what other owners have been muttering under their collective breaths for a good while.

I would find it highly doubtful with all the networking he has been doing within RL circles since he bought the club if feelers aren't out with every big agent in the game and that at a minimum for 2015 he has someone lined up that will be a signing of the likes we at Salford haven't seen since we signed the then worlds best full back in Gary Jack.

It the marquee player change is introduced do you think it should just be limited to new signings only or do you think they will allow an existing club player to be promoted? (Freeing up space on the cap)

Clubs should be given the option of having one player whether that be an existing or new one off their salary cap and paid whatever salary needed. For example, had it been in with Wigan and Tomkins he could have been their marquee signing.

Aye, but come on mate, the funny name, the swarthy appearance. He's pretty much guaranteed to get bored and walk away. Guaranteed.

I've got a sneaky suspicion he's foreign.

Shocking. You'll be accusing him of being a crook, next.