Harry Stottle

Hull to carry on with their upward trend this season.

Love your enthusiasm Celt, but I fancy that will be reversed with a few more added on.

Playing at Dewsbury will suit Wigan more than the Giants, albeit they finished off their last game v Leigh with probably their best 20 mins of the season can they carry on with the good form, I hope so but still won't be enough to win this game.

No contest, Catalan are in a mess.

Wire will do well to bounce back after last week's effort and dissapointment, in which the mental anguish adds more to the recovery time.

Looking at the fixtures this week Luke, it should be the most competitive.

Must win game for Leigh, lose it and very likely in 7th spot after this round.

Sad to hear this, we went with Peter on his organised trip to the '92 ashes series in Australia, he and his wife worked tirelessly to ensure it was a good trip for all his customers which it certainly was taking in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane and finishing of with a week in Bali. RIP Peter.

It is very relevant to this discussion, you have nothing constructive to add as usual.

May I add correct advise, choice of personel and a dose of good luck to boot. Believe it or not, I know Mr Ellis at Wakefield sought council of Mr Beaumont as to what he did to turn his club around.

You don't get it do you, yes Beaumont was wrong on two previous occasions but then took on a whole different strategy by building from below SL it did nothing attendance wise whilst still in the Championship, then getting into SL the attendances have rocketed increasing year on year providing more money for the club enabling that 'sustained investment' you like to quote, providing a reserves team, an elite Academy team, a ladies team, a wheelchair team, PDRL and LDRL teams. All provided for because the first team has had relative success. The strategy was a 5 year plan, initiated by choosing the correct coach and back room staff, that is where it started, had he selected the wrong man to build the team with the money he provided then nothing else may have happened. Now switch that to Salford and Dr Koucash, had he been advised differently and employed the correct coach/backroom staff then as I say things may have turned out very differently for Salford at that time, of course if you don't think on field success initially creates the momentum to carry on building a club then I will totally disagree. You began this conversation with your statement that "Salford haven't had the money in my time watching the game" yes they did it was just not spent wisely and that began with the coach and his player recruitment, a much better coaching selection could have provided better results.

Agreed, initially there will be a surge "We are a Super League team" and then that momentum has to be maintained by utilising the 'extra' money earned by improving the on-field performance, York do not need to do any improvements on the facillities from what I saw on my visit there, only this way will your club be able to generate sustained investment over the years to come.

As I said the wrong coach at Salford initiated the bad expenditure of the initial influx of money the Doc provided, whatever one wants to say about structures and the way the game is run nothing brings punters in like success on the field, look at the club down the road from you. I have been there for a long time in mediocre times then Mr Beaumont hatched his 5 year plan at the end of '21 when relegated from SL he brought in Mr Lam and he changed things round on the field with the money Mr B provided by having a competive team on the field which brought in more punters which generates more cash, which makes more money available to improve the team, which brings in more punters etc etc and so it goes.

That is a big crux to being successful, there are so many benefits with running an elite Academy least of all a conveyor belt of players and financial gains with the salary cap.

Dr Koucash? He took wrong advise in my opinion and employed the wrong people starting with Brian Noble who spent loads of the good Docs money on player's past their prime, the Doc was just a few years to early had he had a Paul Rowley available we could well be seeing a different version of Salford today.