Yes but we are the customers, how many business owners look to alienate their patrons. I am sure you remember what happened to the moderator who no longer attends game over a bottle of pop and the attitude of the club.

It's ok comparing us to other teams that have been relegated in the past such as leigh and how well they are doing now but the difference is as I understand it there will be no promotion at the end of next season. So we will be down and no way back. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hi Cris

we sacked Chester because he won something like 2 in 18 games, his time was up

Agree tbh, maybe with the exception of Minnards who has actually managed to make progress on the ground.

The squad Carter has put together this season is unacceptable really. Proctor and Atoni offer less than nothing, Dagger is poor (and we lost our only exciting young player to gt him in), Smith also contributes nothing. Langi the only signing who has looked semi-useful. Yes the central funding has been cut and it effected us massively, but I find it hard to believe with our budget a better squad could not have been put together. Having less funding just makes the recruitment/retention mistakes more impactful. A well run club would not be crying poverty one minute and offering Proctor a lucrative deal the next.

On Proctor btw it was genuinely sad to see the crowd turn on him yesterday. I think he tries, his body just can't play rugby anymore. Atoni on the otherhand..

Mash and Ford I felt sorry for initially, and still do to an extent for the squad they are working with. That said, even with poor players we could look well coached, and we don't. We don't have an attacking structure at all really, and our end of sets when on the opponents line are pathetic - it really does make you wonder what they work on through the week? Its also baffling as to why Proctor and Atoni are still getting picked, neither look useful or capable of playing many minutes, yet we have Eseh not making the squad. Butler offered more

Salford don't have a rich owner or big crowds but always see to put a decent squad together. That's because they have people the club who can spot a good player and do the research rather than just watch a highlights reel. Look at the highlights reels of Tafua and Atoni and they look world beaters!

No doubt they get some gems from the NRL and are getting a lot out of players previously written off (sounds familiar in years gone by) but there are good reasons as to how they have the squad they have when they don't have rich backers. 1, no academy, 2, don't pay the full rent due on the stadium and 3 have just asked for a £350k loan to cover operational costs.

There is probably £500k right there, enabling them to secure Broady Croft for 8 years.

Salford are a great team, and are great to watch, but as a club they are teetering on the edge.

I wish we were teetering, better than being over and falling rapidly

Salford (or another club) going pop is the only thing that could save us this season.
We have a mid table Championship side, playing League 1 RL just now.

The club looks to be slowly running out of steam, it's awful, absolutely awful,

To hear that we're now targeting the French League for recruitments, says everything about our current state, lack of ambition and certain relegation.

With the same budget as Chester had, we may well have managed that this season ?

Chris Chester won 12 out of his his last 54 games against super league opposition. The only mistake was not getting shut of him earlier before he did more damage by leaving us stuck with some awful players.

Chester had a win ratio of 14% from 50 odd games with about 7 wins, he was crap and should have been sacked 2 years earlier

Correct. He's only looking good at Leigh because of Beaumont's money and the fact he's not the coach,
Unfortunately, we still have the legacy from Chester at Wakefield, in Gaskell and Lineham.
Somebody mentioned earlier we are also still paying him for the contract agreed with him before he left.
He hasn't come out of it too bad has he?

I'm pretty sure he isn't....but I don't actually know.

1) he was offered a year extension that was then paid even though sacked. He's been gone more than a year.
2) the money didn't come from Wakefield Trinity so hasn't cost 'us' anything.

2) the money didn't come from Wakefield Trinity so hasn't cost 'us' anything.'"