Could be along the lines of:

SM - "If you want me to go, that's how much I want to be paid"
Hands piece of paper with figure written on.
PH - "You are doing a good job, lets assess the situation at the end of the season"








maybe...

Unfortunately the cost of running Odsal since 2003 along with some poor decisions made on signings has really cost us.

Spite?

I think we also need to add in the fact that there are now more clubs in SL and more of them are (reportedly) paying the full cap as against fewer than half a few years back.

This means that the value of a top rated player is greater than it was (even in 2005) and the cap amount has been more or less static over the same period. More clubs chasing the same number of players means that any single club will logically have fewer stars than they did. Unless, of course, you can come up with some wizard accounting method which allows the cap to be circumvented....................

Its a good job the various devices I have flagged up over the last week or so have been completely hypothetical, isn't it? After all, we can all see how the cap is now working to ensure that each team has pretty well the same average level of ability and experience in the squad, with no clubs having a surfeit of internationals, so that just goes to prove no-one CAN be up to wizard accounting tricks. Doesn't it? No, really...

Okay, so while the topic is still regarding McNamara not being sacked..

While I was one of the many saying his time as head coach should come to a halt - I'm now backtracking after last night and will now reserve further judgment until after a few more games - just to see how we back it up.

One little snippet to show what a useless coach Macca clearly is: when we ran that penalty in front of the sticks - from which ultimately Worrincy scored - Macca clearly told the team to run it. Never gets anything right with his tactics, does he?

What a fraud, surely must have been a fluke that the 'chump' got his side up for a game against a top side. What with his clueless coaching, naive tactics and him spending the game colouring with his crayons. Blah blah blah...

Whether McNamara is a 'top coach' is perhaps still up for debate, but some of the bile posted about him on here has been grossly unfair. Just hope the players can continue on now and string some decent 80 minute performances together.

Awful attempt at a dig ignored, until he starts winning such games regularly, a fluke is very much what this will be viewed as. It was an excellent win, yes, but the guy is/was under pressure for a reason and he and the team have to build on this. We shall see where we go from here before the supplies of andrex run out in some parts of west yorkshire.

I heard that all supplies had been diverted to Scotland following our cup loss to Catalans.

Or maybe it was the supplies of Kleenex running out in some parts of Scotland last night?