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| I don't believe that Lowes has the tactical nous to get the team promoted. He was a good player for the club, but that doesn't translate as good head coach.
There are questions over how much control he has regarding players coming in and out of the club and how much of that control is down to Steve Ferres.
But we still see week in and week out the same stories in the press with the same sound bites "We didn't play for 80 minutes" "We didn't do what we did in training" etc etc
Now, given the size of the squad we have, if a player is failing to do what he's supposed to in training then surely he should be dropped? That was something a lot of people were expecting at the start of the season, that no-one had a guaranteed place in the side and everyone would need to work hard to get in the 17 every week.
But that doesn't seem to be the case, Lowes has his favourites and they get the game time, regardless of how they performed previously. Now we don't see the players at training all week, we don't know how they're performing there and if that performance has any impact on Lowes selection policy.
However, if a player is running round like a blued fly in training then failing to show up on Sunday. surely that should be taken into account? It's all well and good training like a madman if you don't perform in an actual match.
The target for the club this season had to be get promotion. Anything less than that has to be viewed as a failure which has to start the axe swinging above Lowes' head. After all, to quote the chairman himself "I don't do failure"
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| The salary cap only applies to players who have played a competitive game for us in the season I think. There will be several players who have been here all through pre-season, maybe a friendly as well, but they don't actually count on the cap.
If they set foot on the pitch in a competitive game, their entire salary for the season would immediately count on the cap.
Which is why I think we are obviously spending the cap limit (£1m), but I think our playing staff wages (at least until loans started happening) is probably more - ie £1.1m. I think this explains what has happened to Davies, Petersen, Conroy & Brook.
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| Quote: Highlander "I think this explains what has happened to Davies, Petersen, Conroy & Brook.'"
Not Conroy, who has played competitively (sub away at Batley), but perhaps Bates.
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| Quote: Highlander "The salary cap only applies to players who have played a competitive game for us in the season I think. There will be several players who have been here all through pre-season, maybe a friendly as well, but they don't actually count on the cap.
If they set foot on the pitch in a competitive game, their entire salary for the season would immediately count on the cap.
Which is why I think we are obviously spending the cap limit (£1m), but I think our playing staff wages (at least until loans started happening) is probably more - ie £1.1m. I think this explains what has happened to Davies, Petersen, Conroy & Brook.'"
That can't be right. Why would we ever sign a raft of players on the basis that we do have to pay their wages, but they can never set foot in a competitive game?
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "That can't be right. Why would we ever sign a raft of players on the basis that we do have to pay their wages, but they can never set foot in a competitive game?
Bates/Brooks didn't develop as planned? Davies/Petersen training stats didn't match their youtube highlights reel? quota?
You get 3 or 4 months with them before the first competitive game of the season.
An early injury then squad reassessment means you're suddenly surplus to requirements?
If for example you're on £40k for the season, but 6months have passed and you've not played, then the opportunity arises for the coach to sign 2 players about April/May time, both on £20k for the next 6months.
The £40k player is effectively benched, taken off the 25man squad that the RFL hold and unless he gets a loan arranged, is going to be paid without playing.
Or maybe I'm just overanalysing this....
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| Quote: Highlander "The salary cap only applies to players who have played a competitive game for us in the season I think. There will be several players who have been here all through pre-season, maybe a friendly as well, but they don't actually count on the cap.
If they set foot on the pitch in a competitive game, their entire salary for the season would immediately count on the cap.
Which is why I think we are obviously spending the cap limit (£1m), but I think our playing staff wages (at least until loans started happening) is probably more - ie £1.1m. I think this explains what has happened to Davies, Petersen, Conroy & Brook.'"
It used to be that the cap applied just to the top 25 earners, not sure about now though as that was in SL. I've never heard of it not applying to blokes who don't play, and to be honest it sounds a bit too sensible for the RFL.
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