According to today's MEN, Ed Farish is leaving Salford "by mutual consent". The good Doctor stated that Farish "remains a good friend" and will be replaced by "someone with no rugby background, someone who has does business devlopment for a blue chip company for the last 20 years".

"If someone is not doing it, we need to move them on. But Ed has not been sacked. I just think it is for the best"

The Dr , told the forever reds meeting on Monday , along with some info on restructuring , and named his replacement and where he worked previously . I guess they will release the info when they think it's appropriate. I wish Farish all the best for the future, came across as a approachable and knowledgeable .
He spoke for over 45 minutes and was typically candid on many aspects of the club both on & off the pitch, other chairmen & salary cap .
in some cases too candid to be mentioned here.

Nice too see a more ruthless approach than we've see before his time.

Hope that he brings in someone who goes about things in a professional but equally ruthless manner, time to start pruning the deadwood.

Do like the line about players being encouraged to leave, think some of the will be getting financial incentives to go. My only fear on that is that we're stuck with players going through the motions until the end of the season.

You've wet my appetite now, MM.

I think it wise to keep these things under wraps on here. How did you feel coming out of the meeting? Did you feel positive or apprehensive? I know we usually get a write-up off Shirl for those that couldn't attend, but if it was sensitive stuff I see why this has not happened.

Ruthless in what way? As a supporter I can’t say I’ve seen sweeping changes or firing and hiring of backroom staff.

How do you become involved in the Forever Reds meetings?

This all seems a little clandestine and cliquey to me; either this information is in the public domain orbit isn't.

We can't expect the club to grow if it's being run as a district branch of the Freemasons.

Whatever the Doc has said should either be available to all fans or none at all. Otherwise it looks like we've got a hierarchical fan base.

Head coach gone, assistant gone, Director of rugby gone, chairman gone, vice chairman gone. Geez how many do you want?

This is exactly why I'm interested in attending the meetings. It doesn't make sense to find out information that's beneficial to our club and fanbase but then keep it to yourselves.

Spill the beans!

The former directors relinquished their shares and stepped down voluntarily as part of the takeover in January with the exception of Steve Simms who was a paid FD. The assistant coach left of his own free will to join Wigan. That leaves the head coach who was already walking on eggshells with poor results over a number of games dating back to last year.

When I questioned not seeing ruthless sweeping changes I was referring to the past few months of the new regime with regard to backroom staff, club administration, advertising, merchandise, marketing initiatives and commercial activities. I'm sure there are a lot of ideas and some hard work going on behind the scenes, all I'm saying is I've not seen much difference thus far (Apart from a new format match programme) and certainly nothing I'd consider ruthless.

Wasn't Farish the right man a few months ago.
I do recall reading recently he admitted the job was harder than he anticipated so he was obviously setting the foundations to leave.
The danger for Salford is that with Koukash's high turnover of staff in a short space of time he frightens people from taking up posts.

But I don't understand how do you know these things aren't taking place? its not like this info is going to make the papers?

I have been resonably pleased how much change there has been in the club, its turned the corner and we just need players now