good luck to H, he has got himself a 4 year deal and most likely a payrise. Obviously our management team couldn't or didn't wish to match the offer and have not stood in the players way by making him see out the 1 year option on his services.

It now opens up a 2nd row starting slot for someone to grab by the horns

Wheres Grimmy when i want to be smug?????

i could use the quote facility!!!

has the salary cap been repealed, or has Dr Cockrash just decided to take the points deduction?

I'm here, show me where I said it won't happen

Salford have only retained a few players from the entire squad from last year, so he is starting with pretty much a blank sheet in regards to the cap. Plus the ones retained wouldn't have been on much at all. He states on twitter after being asked about the cap saying there's still room to bring someone else in although unlikely before the start of the season.

Neither, Koukash has just decided to spend the same as the likes of Wigan, Leeds, Warrington etc for the first time in Salford's Super League history.

yep Salford are spending up to the cap with higher profile players, where as Wigan have spread their salary over 37-38 players most of whom will likely figure in the 2014 season and not be overawed by it.......Salford may be a bit top heavy by paying higher fees to get the top talent in so may struggle if they get major injuries as the back up players are not likely to be as good.

We've got a lot of top talent to replace after having the likes of Joel Moon, Matty Smith, Daniel Holdsworth, Richie Myler, Stefan Ratchford, Jordan Turner and so on taking away from us in the past by clubs willing to throw their cash around.

A stupid decision by the club.

Wave a cheque book and IL sells.

I am sure there will be the odd apologist making out that at 28 he's past it or whatever (it usually gets said about any player who leaves) but that would be silly in Hansen's case.

We have sold Salford arguably the best 2nd row pairing in the league. It's better than ours for next season IMO at any rate.

Queue all the nay-sayers predicting the exodus will leave us with a few kids who'll win nowt, Wane know nothing & Lenagan is a greedy leech.

It was about this time last year when it all started to kick off for exactly the same reasons - having learned to keep programming computers & not trying to second guess the coaching staff, who know a shed load more than me, I'll just stand back & point.

It's always disappointing to see a player who's been here so long play for another club but we do already have the quality in abundance in that position at Wigan, looking forward to see how Hughes/Burke/Bateman/Lloyd/Gelling/Clubb react to this, massive opportunity for these young lads who all have bags of talent.

I'd like to see us spend some money on a real quality back.

At least the ones mentioned above manage to offset the spending by getting a few punters through the turnstiles