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?

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.

I know that last night was much improved on recent weeks but a few posters on here are getting a little carried away.

Indeed some are.

What! On here. Daft postings about the coach????? Would you Adam and Eve it........................

Dunno about the rest of you guys, but I'd rather get "a little carried away" delighted to be catching our lot doing things right, than "a little carried away" forever delighting in catching them doing things wrong?

But then again, that's maybe the fundamental and irreconcilable difference between positivity and negativity?

Sorry Adey it's my fault I didn't make my point clearly enough. The point I tried to make was that after the games that were disapointing result wise we were told not to rush to make judgements. But after a win that practice seems not to apply anymore.