Imagine if Ken Morrison bought the Bulls and pumped money into it

I wouldn't mind the Bulls playing at Morrison Stadium



And Adeybull they probably pay the players money (eg. Lee Briers on £80,000 a year and he gets a £100,000 bonus at the end of year or he get £80,000 a year and his bonus is £50,000 a year while his wife gets £50,000 a year being a receptionist in the club office). The numbers are not exact but use them as examples.

As said previously I wouldn't fancy us in beating any sides in this competition. We are simply that poor and I cant quite believe the deluded statement's coming from the likes of Langley saying that he believes where a top five side.

We are a joke and only we could concede up to thirty points whilst in possession of the football !

Their club was seriously insolvent. Without Moran I (and most of their fans that I have spoken too) doubt they would be here in SL today. Same as Shudds and Davy, Stains and McManus and Leeds and Caddick (in the early years of SL), as examples.

Those clubs' good fortune, and good luck to them. Its hardly their fault that we have not found a sugar daddy of our own. And some shrewd businessmen amongst them - Davy and McManus I especially admire. But anyone who thinks any of those clubs would have got to where they are now without their wealthy backers (or equivalent) is indeed fooling themselves. Indeed, most fans of those clubs fully recognise and appreciate what their owners have done for them.

I won't, because they are not relevant.

All those examples are covered quite clearly by the salary cap rules. All such payments count towards a player's salary cap value. I suggest you go read them - download the RFL Rules from their website.

If you want to avoid the cap, as an example go find a friendly "unconnected third party" prepared to pay the player loads of money offshore for his image rights or for other services rendered.

But the payments to the players wife isn't counted as the players salary it is the wifes salary for working for the club.

I honestly have never seen anything like today and didnt know whether to laugh or shake my head when it happend the 3rd/4th/5th/6th times. Even Wire decided to give you 10 points in the same fashion. I count 42 points in total today coming from the team who didnt have the ball at the start of the play.

Bloody crazy!

Wrong.

It is.

Go check out the rules. A:5.2.1 applies.

The salary cap auditor has discretion anyway to decide whether any payment is in respect of a player's playing contract. I suspect - but I do not know this for sure - that a bona fide employment for a spouse at commercial rates would be allowed by the SC auditor. Paying the wife a totally disproportionate salary for a basic job - as in the anecdotal tale regarding Steve Renouf's wife a few years ago - would certainly not be.

Indeed.

What did my head in was that we seemed totally immune to learning from our mistakes!

I wonder how many times some of those guys would have to bang their heads against a wall before they realised that actually it hurt?

Did you hear the ironic cheer when we finally put a bomb up on the last instead of a kick through for a charge-down?

Even then it was a crap kick that was defused on the full in the in goal area



Add to that the 2 kicks offs that went out on the full and no wonder most of the media were laughing in disbelief.

Indeed. And at least they were laughing in disbelief. We were just laughing hysterically...

It's looking increasingly like a write off season once again... so disappointing. A massive blow given all the hard work and positivity in pre season.

Potter should be getting much better performances out of this bunch, but we still have too many ordinary players to compete with the likes of Wire. So depressing once again!

As I said from the outside looking in - your club appears to be in a mess. I fail to see how a new stadium would change that. Odsal isn't that bad - especially on a day like today. You say that all those clubs are bankrolled by rich owners but I think the majority bankroll themselves - obviously the occasional investment on a player (in our case) or infrastructure is a benefit but we aren't reliant on these owners to succeed.



The stadium had nothing to do with Moran. The new stadium has led to a massive increase in revenue through both increased attendances and other events hosted at the stadium. The new stadium as well as the way that the club is now run is the main reason for our upturns in fortunes. Simon Moran has certainly had his part to play but by no means is he the reason for our upturn in fortunes.