Re: Strategic thinking... : Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:03 am  

Wigg'n wrote:

NFL won't have a London team for at least 10 years.

I wouldnt be so sure about that although i cant see it being too much of a threat when it does it happen

Re: Strategic thinking... : Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:24 am  

[quote="The Ghost of '99"]The only bloke on the planet who has self-funded an expansion team which went, under his coaching/management/ownership, to become financially viable and soon after won major silverware? /quote]
Also jumping ship shortly before it all went belly up.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:17 am  

The guy is crazy. What a pathetic idea and it will never ever happen.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:20 am  

Finfin wrote:

Also jumping ship shortly before it all went belly up.

He sold because he'd made it a profitable, commercial and playing success with no debt and was given an opportunity to run and part own the biggest club in the league, which he used to play for.

The inability of the subsequent owners of Sheffield to capitalise on the solid foundations created from nothing was all of their own doing - the biggest problem was probably that their operation bore no relation to the characteristically very tight ship Hetherington ran.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:11 am  

More self-publicity from Dr Koukash, another ill-thought out high profile scheme with zero chance of ever happening but hey he gets his name in the papers once again, same old I'm afraid.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:32 pm  

why doesnt Koucash invest some of his cash in trying to promote his present UK club and get more than 3K watching the great game in a city that gets 120K football fans without any trouble? He craves publicity and has come up with this absolute nonsense.

Why has the new structure set the game back 20 years? We now have a clear pathway for any club to get to the OT GF.

Dont confuse the disastrous TV deals and all other commercial and marketing activity with this structure. They are 2 completely seperate avenues one of which has had no strategy for around 110 years!!!

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:39 pm  

lemonhead wrote: what are peoples thoughts on the latest idea's from Mr Koukash? http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 2xcdq.html Mr Hetherington would wobble at the knees at the thought of expanding the game to a global level rather than keeping it in the M62 corridor! I, for one, admire his vision and his ambition. It is men like him that change the world... ...of course, it'll never work!

lemonhead wrote: what are peoples thoughts on the latest idea's from Mr Koukash? http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 2xcdq.html Mr Hetherington would wobble at the knees at the thought of expanding the game to a global level rather than keeping it in the M62 corridor! I, for one, admire his vision and his ambition. It is men like him that change the world... ...of course, it'll never work!

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:44 pm  

Tipster Ste wrote:

why doesnt Koucash invest some of his cash in trying to promote his present UK club and get more than 3K watching the great game

I suspect he might be slowly realising that he's bought a pup, then compounded the error by moving to Barton & getting into bed with Peel. The stadium itself is haemorrhaging cash by all accounts, Salford council are owed a couple of million by the club & there's 20million outstanding on the buildings (don't you love Wikipedia ).
Mad Marwan is looking more like Mike Ashley by the day - it might come good eventually, but I'd not be surprised if he cuts his losses sooner than later.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:59 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

I suspect he might be slowly realising that he's bought a pup, then compounded the error by moving to Barton & getting into bed with Peel. The stadium itself is haemorrhaging cash by all accounts, Salford council are owed a couple of million by the club & there's 20million outstanding on the buildings (don't you love Wikipedia ).
Mad Marwan is looking more like Mike Ashley by the day - it might come good eventually, but I'd not be surprised if he cuts his losses sooner than later.

They were already at Barton when he was persuaded to take over the club. You have to feel a bit sorry for him. They can't get more than 4,500 crowds in to the place and it's never more than half full. Despite investing heavily in the team, nothing seems to have worked. They can't win and the fans aren't interested in attending. I must admit I preferred the Willows, which always had a decent atmosphere.

Without him Salford would have died as a club. So I think the Rugby League community should be grateful instead of knocking him.

I suspect he would have been better off investing in the Bulls. There is way more potential in Bradford.

Re: Strategic thinking... : Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:29 pm  

Aboveusonlypie wrote:

They were already at Barton when he was persuaded to take over the club. You have to feel a bit sorry for him. They can't get more than 4,500 crowds in to the place and it's never more than half full. Despite investing heavily in the team, nothing seems to have worked. They can't win and the fans aren't interested in attending. I must admit I preferred the Willows, which always had a decent atmosphere.

Without him Salford would have died as a club. So I think the Rugby League community should be grateful instead of knocking him.

I suspect he would have been better off investing in the Bulls. There is way more potential in Bradford.

Agree about the Bulls point. This seems to have been dragging for an eternity & as a bear with very little brain, I get confused with timings sometimes (although I've just found an article on the BBC website from December 2000:

This deal involves ensuring the city has a 21st century stadium with professional sport played at the highest level and brings major employment for local people."
Reds chief executive, David Tarry said: "It's a big decision to move but our fans, the council and ourselves want to see a successful Salford challenging for honours in a marvellous new stadium.
"We will be staying in Salford and the stadium will rival any in Super League. We are often called the sleeping giants. The rest of Super League had better be warned, we have had our early-morning call."

)
Don't know about feeling sorry for MK though, it's the fans who I think have been conned. I wonder whether it was just the bright-lights of the Trafford Centre that bamboozled them into thinking it was a good idea 15 years ago. With the thought that the glitz & cash would somehow skate over the sewerage-works & under the bridge.

The doctor's keeping the headline writers busy, but the Oz press have poured cold water on his latest & I can't find anyone who thinks it's a goer. The Knights deal appears to have fallen through so he's now casting round with one daft idea after another - who's advising him? Where is this all coming from?