Ideally.

Bonito red.
You talk a lot of sense and I think I, like many other fans, understand the sad situation in which scr find themselves.

I see a big problem though after the Bradford fiasco.
If only one lesson should have been learned from that, it would be to keep your fans and supporters FULLY informed if you expect them to put their hand in their pockets. It would seem however that open, candid and detailed statements are still very difficult to come by. ( maybe for good reason, but nevertheless )

I sent a serious ( for me ) donation to Bradford bulls but as it all turned out, wished I had not.

Added to that, Peel holdings treated me very poorly when I came as an away fan, and I am afraid it leaves me, and many others reticent to help out when we are not sure exactly what the money is earmarked for.

I wish Salford the very best in their fight for survival, but for once I don't think that the fans will have a big effect on the result of what will happen.

Bradford raised 500k and still went into administation. It may have bought time but that money dissapeared into a black hole and once pledged the money has gone for good, it can't be raised again. So will 60k save the club? Or does it delay the ineviable? Does it just get the current owners off the hook via bank guarantees as it did with the bulls or does it solve the problem? Does the club still need K540 in the following 3 weeks or else its game over? What is peels role in all this if nosey parker is to be believed and they have paid half of the last months wages? How much tv money have the rfl advanced and how will this impact? Just what is the playing budget under the 'robust' plan? People need to know the real outcome of their goodwill.

An awful lot of questions and 'ifs' in this thread that really need answers before people part with their hard earned. The money can only be raised once, it has to be put to maximum use and not wasted. As a wakefield fan it sounds like ted richardsons desperate plea for backing at the end of his tenure. We refused and thankfully got our white knight and didn't look back, if he had of stayed the hole would have just got deeper. The rhetoric that came from wakey back then mirrors now, i.e. lots of open ended questions that never got an answer. I genuinely wish salford the very best, you are a club i've always had a soft spot for. But please get the answers needed to ensure that precious money isn't wasted.

Great post Theboyem very sensible and realism at last.

In the interests of fairness you should also remember that the Bradford situation was somewhat different to that of Wakefield. The shareholding of the club was split and went something like a quarter to Caisley, just under a quarter to Hood, another quarter split between half dozen individuals and the rest was made up of hundreds of small fan shareholders many of whom might not even have still be alive.

Once the 500K was raised, Hood was adamant that he had further investment ready to come in. However an EGM was called by Caisley to oust Hood and he had the backing of enough shareholders to do that. So any investment he may have had was never going to succeed once Caisley called the EGM. Where we would have been it Hood had of been of successful I'm not sure. Coulby then became acting Chairman and took the club into administration.

I'm not sad to see the back of Hood or Caisley and the club does seem to be making good progress under new management. The true test will be in the next few years though.

I wish Salford the very best of luck though and fully understand the desperation and pain you're all feeling right now. You will get know it alls telling you what you should be doing but there are no guarantees that it will work out the same. We had many telling us that the supporters trust should have raised the money and bought the club. It's hard enough to get supporters to join the board to organise events for fund raising, never mind taking on the running of a SL club.

Just my personal thoughts though and I sincerely hope you find a solution and I hope to visit your ground in happier times in May.

My heart really goes out to you guys having been through the same last year. I've pledged to your fund and will be paying as soon as the PayPal account becomes available for much the same reasons that I did with the Bulls: I can't be certain that my money won't go into a black hole nor that it won't go straight into a director's pocket, but what I can be sure of is if my club had folded and I hadn't put my hand in my pocket I'd have been left with a "what if I'd done more" feeling for years to come.

Good luck guys!

Surely us at FR want new owners,don't we.I mean can we really ask people to donate,if not.

Giving anything without regime change is a waste of time and money. The supporters should demand a place on the board.

Lance wake up will you

This is typical of FR, you have members who don't even know what's going on. Transparent my booty.

I'm a member & I know what's goin on, think anyone with common sense realise there is going to be new owners whatever happens.
It's going to be a takeover or administration so which ever, the end of the present owners & board is inevitable.
I don't want to see the end of the club, but the club as we know it won't exist & think that's why forever reds are doing the fundraising to make sure there is a club to still support when whoever takes over.
Think they have learnt from the Bradford fiasco & won't part with any money until they are sure it is going in the right place.
At least some of the fans are getting of backsides & doing something, the saying springs to mind Them that moan & do nowt shouldn't moan at all.

I agree with you,but other people are waiting to see what happens,and surely that's there right,some people think
we are only propping up the present incumbents.and some of these have watched this club for years.

You just read the genuine thoughts of one of the most sensible Bulls fans you could ever meet.

From personal (and expensive) experience, I endorse every word of what he said. Other than to add that Caisley intervened to IMO effectively totally undermine the Hood regime's efforts a day or so before the pledge deadline. One day maybe the whole truth about what really happened, and whether or not it was all engineered as part of the internecine wars, will come out.

I sincerely hope you guys do not suffer from the vermin shareholder politics that IMO destroyed Bradford. If you can avoid that corrosive corrupting internecine strife then you must have a good chance. Good luck. And ignore the know-alls from Wakey and elsewhere who know all the answers but never actrually had to do it themselves.

Oh, and I hope that those who were really responsible for what happened at Bradford rot in the very darkest, deepest pits of hell for all eternity.

Not necessarily as Early Bath points out on another thread.

Well to be honest that statement is not strictly true.

Who knows what is going on behind the scenes?

John Howard & Ian have a lot to lose if Admin/Liquidation so I would guess they will be looking at every avenue available to them. I know I would in the circumstances.

The key date is Monday January 7th when matters will crystallise I feel.

That's why it's best to not part with the cash, let them sink in their squaller.