I never knew that either Teeside, you have gone up in my forum rating to 5*, well done.

I have no problem with it whatsoever. I understand why he has done it as all spot has now bcome a business and people like the Dr will only invest to make money. Wish we had a few more people like him involved.
I do however his bid to buy Oldham FC dies on its ar$e, football has enough money men. Also I hate Oldham FC for how they contributed to the demise of the rugby team.

Stanley, you are back my son. What happened to your 'Ratchford is nailed on for Salford' announcement ? I seem to remember you wanted an apology from me when it happened, so perhaps you would now like to graciously apologise yourself. All in your good time.

LOL apologies, but he is definately nailed on, for next year now. I mere delay in the Docs plan. As he said, 2015 recruitment has already started

So presumably, Daryl Clark, who you also said was signed, will now be coming in 2015 ?

That's what I thought but it is indeed a totally different person by the name of Niel Wood.

You know it!

I'll see you this time next year.

Owning a sports club is not a great way of making money, a lot of owners just end up subsidising losses.

For a rich owner its more like owning a Ferrari. You don't buy a Ferrari expecting to make a return on it, its really a consumption buy rather than investment. You buy it because you want to have some fun and experience the highs and lows of sport.

If you want to buy an asset to get returns, there are a lot better assets to invest in.

Also I'm not convinced about all this Salford being so profitable because of this prime real estate, we've been hearing about this type of thing for a while ever since their new stadium was first suggested, that they would be on to a gold mine etc. And yet at the start of the year they were going bankrupt and struggling to get any investors interested at all before Nigel Wood got Koukash involved. Is it not a bit odd, if Salford was such a profitable opportunity, that there was not a massive bidding war for buying the club? How come nobody has come in and tried to buy Koukash out?

Koucash has bought a gold-mine with Salford as soon as the £1m per year payment from the casino commences.

To be honest I cant Believe Koukash really believes Peel Holdings (who specialise in owning lots of land and building stuff on it) would allow him to simply buy their stake of the stadium and then chuck him some land for a laugh so he could build stuff on it instead of them....?

the best he can hope for is to pay half price for a stadium. Peel may sell him their stake for the going rate... and the council might give him their share if the running costs get too much....

Do you think the appetite is there for a professional RL team though?

I'd like to see them do well, but for me Newcastle / Gateshead is similar to Liverpool and Manchester in that the only sport anyone really cares about is football.