Salford have failed to impress so far.

They have beaten Celtic at home and then got thumped by the lowly Wakefield. (Take the Aussies Demetriou, Drew, and Blanch, and the Scottish heritage Danny Brough out of the side and Wakefield is not a SL standard team).

Their first home ground attendance of 4,026 was abysmal. It was exceeded by the home game crowd of Celtic Crusaders and Harlequins this weekend.

Salford have some very good players but a poor coach and administration. The coach, who is personally a lovely man and a good TV commentator for sure, is not respected in Australia as a coach. The administration of Steve Simms has a lot of question marks around it. If the new stadium does not get under construction by early 2011, and their crowds do not increase to over 6,000, then I would expect that the RFL has every right to dump them.

Were only two games into the season so far too early to be making judgements on how teams are going to fair, particularly Salford and Celtic who will take some type to adjust to the pace and physicality of superleague, or are you saying that Wigan will finish bottom because they got beat at home by lowly Wakefield?

As for your comments about Wakey, they have managed to stay in superleague for the last 10 years and last season spent long periods without Drew and Demetriou in the side, yet still managed to finish well clear of bottom. So in what way are they not superleague standard?

Good idea - now let's apply that simple rule across the rest of the SL and see how many 'good teams' are left! I hate to say it, but that bloke from Manly is right, it is a second rate comp in comparison to the Aussie league and EVERY ONE of the SL teams needs to wake up to that fact. An injury ravaged Wakey side held Englands finest to a respectable score - if we'd been playing almost any of the Aussie teams we'd have had a hiding! I don't think Leeds or Saints (Englands 2 best teams - ouch that hurts) would impress in the Aussie league if you took their imports out.

The RFL dont have ' the right ' to dump anybody

Do you mean ' Lowly Wakefield ' who beat W1g4n at the JJB

Take 3 aussies out of the Celtic or Catalans team and they are not SL standard

Are any coaches over here ' respected ' in Australia

Give it a rest Albert

Not true.


I agree with that though.

Let's remember that Salford is expansion territory. Let's hope that they continue to improve their crowds and that a franchise spot will allow them to develop some home-grown players.

Damien would rather be called Irish..

For the second time this week

They have been ' expanding ' since 1873

Didn't the first franchises all last for 3 years? If that's the case then no one is getting "dumped"

I thought franchises were for three years not three weeks.

Albert fishing again. What a bore you are Albert.