The money granted to us was specifically tied to community projects, which the club have to report on directly to WMDC.

The money given (on top of the money already loaned and written off), to SRD is for ongoing, day to day, operational costs - costs which they should/could pay for themselves if the weren't spaffing it on players they cannot otherwise afford.

I don't have a problem and don't really know why we would care.
They've agreed a deal with their council and it helps them.

But it doesn't affect us.

Doesn't it?

As an example, in way does their inflated league position not affect us?

Why is it inflated?
They haven't cheated to stay in SL and from now on they are assessed by IMG same as us.

Because if you take £300k of salary out of their team, they wouldn't be finishing anywhere near as high as they do.

They'd be wooden spoon candidates.

Plus Cas and Feath got the same

But they didn't do anything wrong to get that money. They agreed terms with the council, just like we did.
So they don't need to take £300k out.

It's bad business and will bite them one day, but it isn't against any SL rules.

Who mentioned rules?

It's distasteful and immoral.

Using council funding to operate isn't the best look.

Using those funds to then pay big-name players whilst defaulting on a huge portion of your rent is even worse.

So I go back to my point that it doesn't affect us.
It's their choice.
If its not against the rules it isn't causing us a problem

How is them getting a better IMG score than they should for performance not affecting us, or the wider game?

However, I'm certainly not attacking the SRD position from the viewpoint of a Wakefield supporter - I think it's a completely ridiculous situation for the game.

We disagree about it's importance, I guess.

What we disagree on is whether they get those points unfairly.

Morally I wouldn't be too happy especially if I lived in Salford

But from what I see, it's just a deal they got away with.
I don't think anyone would complain if our council wrote off our loan.

Fev and Cas fans might.

Plenty would be complaining if we didn't pay it back!

The Wakefield Express had us on the front page when Mat took over, telling the Wakefield Council to make us pay back a loan that we were paying back all ready .Do not how Salford get away with it