www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/f ... rd-rfl-sky? He doesnt mince his words does he? I dont think he has missed having a go at anybody has he?

www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/f ... rd-rfl-sky? He doesnt mince his words does he? I dont think he has missed having a go at anybody has he?

I don't disagree with anything he said.

That's him off the RFL Christmas card list

Good on the bloke!
He is talking about getting the game to as many people as possible, not just a single channel audience.
With the people we have in charge of the RFL, I bet the RU chaps are laughing their gonads off!

I'm beginning to quite like this bloke

The game needs people like him to keep pushing knock off Nigel and co. Don't let them get too comfy in their £200k a year jobs

my god can I change my opinion of such an arrogant man



get in there Doc

Apart from saying something about Salford getting to Old Trafford, he was bang on the money.

Only to watch from the Stretford End.

The journos must love him - his press conferences are a bit like sitting behind some gobe know-it-all fan whose had a few scoops too many and suddenly knows how to run the game. Mildly entertaining for a while but ultimately, a bit annoying.

Fair play to him in terms of getting attention, but he'd better hope that Salford pull up the appropriate amount of trees this season, or he's going to look like a bit of a plonker.

I bet Big Nige rues the day their eyes met across a crowded salad bar.

Can't say as I was impressed with his How to treat a girl analogy. He missed the bit about chaining them to the sink and making them walk 5 paces behind when you allow them out in public.
What a lad, eh?

Of your insinuating that his wife follows Islamic rules the. Your wrong and abit racist to add to that, his wife is Liverpudlian and is a business women in her own right.

Think youl find that a chap so successful in life may not be experienced in rugby league but can deal with most things thrown at him ,undetestamate him at your peril whatever he does this man will succeed

Well said

Yep he's come over as a misogynst IMHO....

I find it ironic that Salford have drawn us for their first game of the season probably as we are perceived pushovers this season so the RFL want to give them an easy start and get a roll on into the season. Unless there is a transparent and objective way they select the fixtures?

It would have been more apt for them to get a Wigan away but that was never going to happen was it?

A little like when we got newly promoted Widnes the other season away on their plastic pitch for the first game then and we know what happened then don't we?



Hope the WTW squad draw strength from the perception of being the basement club just making up the numbers and prove a few wrong as they did a couple of seasons ago..

I'm suggesting that if he thinks poking as many women as you can until you find a good lay is the norm then he's been spending to much time watching his stallions at work at stud.

I'm surprised he's married at all!

And a newly promoted Hull KR away. Too much of a coincidence don't you think. Another indication the games bent.

Lets not forget who were the the sacrificial lambs for the opening game at Warringtons new stadium as well.

Anyway good on the Doctor, reckon most of what he said is spot on. Ultimately the RFL are not fit for purpose.

If you're suggesting hidden agenda's then you'd have thought our fixtures would have been fixed to play Bradford early on in the season to give them a leg up........hmm.

Koukash talks like a person who is new to the game and can see what a great product he has bought into.
He talks like he does about the sponsorship deals because he is a businessman and knows how to negotiate at good deal to the max.
Unfortunately when the people in charge of our game don't value it as highly or are not confident enough to sell it as a first rate product, you end up with what happened last year with Stobbart.
So when a company comes along and dangles some money in front of the RFL to sponsor the league, they snap their hand off, which in turn devalues the league.
Same with the Sky deal, it's lazy negotiating but may have been brought on by a few clubs being financially unstable and requesting an advance on existing Sky money.
I just hope the Dr doesn't get disillusioned if his team he has put together doesn't get the backing he expects from the public of Salford.
He needs to talk to a few of his mates to invest in RL clubs and point out that they can buy a club and a team for the same money it would cost for a mediocre footballer!!

Can't beat a knee-jerk accusation of racism - lovely stuff!

no problems being a sacrificial lamb as it back fire when we got Wigan away,
I personally think its meant to hype the first game up no doubts with the sale of Smithy, it does make it a tasty fixture

Wakey fans paranoid? Does the Pope crap in the woods?