Off topic, what's happened to your board? Barely anyone on here anymore!

The RFL agreed to Koukash's request to have the appeal heard by Sport Resolutions, a London-based arbitration service which has the power to quash the initial verdict, lower the penalty or increase it to as much as a 20-point deduction.

20 pts sounds fair.

No, despite your mild hysteria. Sports resolutions is mentioned in the RFL operational rules as an appeal body.

It appears Salford have lawyers who actually read the rules rather than a town who think they are all legally qualified on visas, contracts etc.

Lost appeal

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/36734568

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/36734568

Not a shock, still gutted. Well done in making the club a laughing stock once again. And you wonder why we have no fans. Joke club

He still won't let it lie. What a bell :- www.totalrl.com/koukash-says-fig ... l-not-end/?

He still won't let it lie. What a bell :- www.totalrl.com/koukash-says-fig ... l-not-end/?

Marwan rants about the RFL and how poor they are, but he's the one who's masterminded lower crowds than when at the Willows, nil success, making undeclared payments, and generally making a complete ass of himself. He might want to borrow a mirror for a while and take a look in it. He might have saved Salford from the death, but it's hard to see how they've improved.

The issue I have withthe thing, is it sounds like you got stung on the whole Jake Mullaney/Kevin Locke thing, which upon reading the article the doc admitted to having messed up. My annoyance with this is that was 2013 and you are being punished for it now when it seems you have things steady and calm now. Feel for you really

The point is a lot of this didn't come to light until TP spoke about his 2 contracts. Marwan keeps saying you didn't go over the salary cap but you DID break the rules e.g. cheat. After which he had declared he would find a way to cheat. He admits he has failed at Salford and rather than accept his own failures needs something or someone to point at.

Did the RFL make the accounting mistakes? Did they move stadiums? Did they fail miserably in marketing? Did they get highly regarded players and then just bin them off?

It's sad to see a old school rugby team suffer but I'm not sure the victim card works, all other clubs have taken point deductions and got on with it but Marwan can't do that. He broke the operational rules and has spent loads on money on a case he could not win. The Kevin Locke issue might have been easy to clear up, but he still had broken the rules. It wasn't a mistake, why didn't he check with the RFL?

The things that have been found out will not be the total "Mistakes" he has made.

I feel for the Salford supporters, more pain for them.

I know Marwan upsets people but he seems like a decent bloke who just can't control his ego.
I feel for the Salford fans as their team has won enough games to be going ona Top 8 tour but are in a dog fight in the middle 8 now (or nearly are)

My biggest problem with Marwan is that he could be so good for Salford and RL in general. If he could just accept responsibility when it doesn't work and put his ego, money and business skills to building Salford into something special, or even just something quite good but stable, everyone would be happy with him.
In my opinion he's got it in him, he's just choosing a different way.