Exclusive: Salford Red Devils have submitted documentation to the RFL arguing against a proposed eight-point deduction for fielding a weakened team in the opening game of the 2025 season.
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Salford City Council has formally ended all negotiations with Jacobson Management on the future of Salford Community Stadium. Like you, we care deeply about the future of the club and the role rugby league plays in Salford’s sporting identity and community. Link in comments
@J3364399340278@TonyScotson@johnnyddavidson Causing either Litten or Minchella therefore having to move due to funds. This example can be used at Wigan as well, it’s just accepted in super league the good players stay at clubs until they retire or get called to go NRL. 2/2
@J3364399340278@TonyScotson@johnnyddavidson Yeah it’s not an attack on Leigh, it’s just id like to see a different approach taken by teams. Example: we just accept that Mikey Lewis would only stay at Hull KR and never go to Leigh, but why if the money was attractive enough. Therefore Hull KR raise his contract then 1/2
@TonyScotson@J3364399340278@johnnyddavidson Yeah but I assume you allowed this due to having Armstrong coming in. I just think the cap is used poorly in the Super league, it’s more like how FFP in football weakens the smaller sides. Rather than levelling the playing field like the NRL.
@willdmspencer@J3364399340278@johnnyddavidson Moylan was under contract for this year and announced his retirement in October. That freed up cap space but by that time most good players are fixed up for this year. Rather than buy someone straight away, Leigh have waited until a decent player became available 1/2
@johnnyddavidson Dine on the scraps as usual.
Would rather see an ambitious bid to try and lure away some English talent from the bigger clubs. Much like how we have seen the Panthers team dismantled over the years as this is how the cap is meant to work.
@willdmspencer There's always a number of players that become available after the NRL season starts, in March and April, that NRL clubs don't want and get offloaded to Super League.
@cambibs@13_A_Side_ More funny they think someone is going to put 5 million in Cam …. I don’t get the notion of if we were Manchester the people would come flocking.
People scoffed earlier when I mentioned a Manchester club in any "NRL Europe" competition, but if the NRL say to 2 struggling historic teams, Salford & Swinton, here's 5 million, your spot in the competition is secured, if you sign here and agree to merge and form Manchester RLFC
🧵 In case you haven't noticed, I've been getting a bit of grief from Salford supporters regarding my *insert negative descriptive word* coverage of the club and their current situation.
Here's a thread of every story I've done on Salford in the last three months.
Salford Red Devils have bolstered their squad on the eve of the season with the signing of former Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma
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