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| Quote Bull Mania="Bull Mania"
Special shout out to Mendeika who physically is an absolute mess. His body looks broken. My gran in lead boots can run faster than him. He has an absolute inability to draw any man in. The only player he successfully tackled today was our own player.'"
Are you sure you were at the game? Because that is complete and total horsesh*t. I'm no Mendeika fan by any stretch, but he repeatedly made one-on-one ball-and-all tackles at Batley. I won't disagree with him being useless in attack, but to say the only player he tackled today was his own is just completely wrong.
However I don't dispute your comments on Oscar. I was at the game today (against my better judgement) and he was bloody awful. That bit where he got dragged into touch after collecting the ball near the line was comfortably the most stupid thing I've seen in a Bulls game in years. All he had to do was run in field, instead he chose to run at the two chasers near the line. The lad is clueless.
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| His Kicking has also gone down hill
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| Should be dropped. Nuff said
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| Whichever division we end up in, the majority of this squad aren't good enough and if they find out sooner rather than later, all the better.
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| Hopefully we are headed for a big clearout at the end of the year.
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| It's all very well talking about a 'clear out' but who are we going to get who is decent when we are playing in League One?
It comes back, again, to the issue of full-time vs part-time. If we try and stay full time we are going to be having to sign the very worst players who are prepared to be full-time? Because all the better full-time players are going to play at SL level or top of the Championship level.
As we've seen throughout this season, that level of full-time player isn't good enough to match the part-time players in the Championship.
It [imight[/i just get us through League One, I suppose - but maybe not, as we are going to be up against some highly motivated teams such as Keighley, Hunslet, Whitehaven (or Barrow, whichever doesn't go up with Toronto), Workington, plus whoever gets relegated with us - just the sort of teams who seem to be able to raise their game and roll over 'the mighty Bulls'
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| Quote paulwalker71="paulwalker71"It's all very well talking about a 'clear out' but who are we going to get who is decent when we are playing in League One?
It comes back, again, to the issue of full-time vs part-time. If we try and stay full time we are going to be having to sign the very worst players who are prepared to be full-time? Because all the better full-time players are going to play at SL level or top of the Championship level.
As we've seen throughout this season, that level of full-time player isn't good enough to match the part-time players in the Championship.
It [imight[/i just get us through League One, I suppose - but maybe not, as we are going to be up against some highly motivated teams such as Keighley, Hunslet, Whitehaven (or Barrow, whichever doesn't go up with Toronto), Workington, plus whoever gets relegated with us - just the sort of teams who seem to be able to raise their game and roll over 'the mighty Bulls''"
Top and bottom money talks. If the money is going to be there to tempt better players they will come, I think with recent signings there seems to be an ability to bring people in. If not its difficult to say where we will be. The fact Phil Jospeh went to Workington rather than sign full time with us said a lot about what was on offer at the start of the year. One thing regardless of league that needs to happen is the complacent attitude we saw under Jimmy. In League One I think part time is the way to compete for the better players if we arent in a position to do a Toronto
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| Quote paulwalker71="paulwalker71"It's all very well talking about a 'clear out' but who are we going to get who is decent when we are playing in League One?
It comes back, again, to the issue of full-time vs part-time. If we try and stay full time we are going to be having to sign the very worst players who are prepared to be full-time? Because all the better full-time players are going to play at SL level or top of the Championship level.
As we've seen throughout this season, that level of full-time player isn't good enough to match the part-time players in the Championship.
It [imight[/i just get us through League One, I suppose - but maybe not, as we are going to be up against some highly motivated teams such as Keighley, Hunslet, Whitehaven (or Barrow, whichever doesn't go up with Toronto), Workington, plus whoever gets relegated with us - just the sort of teams who seem to be able to raise their game and roll over 'the mighty Bulls''"
Toronto appear to have done alright with a full time squad in League 1.
It's all about the money...
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| Quote thepimp007="thepimp007"Top and bottom money talks. If the money is going to be there to tempt better players they will come, I think with recent signings there seems to be an ability to bring people in. If not its difficult to say where we will be. The fact Phil Jospeh went to Workington rather than sign full time with us said a lot about what was on offer at the start of the year. One thing regardless of league that needs to happen is the complacent attitude we saw under Jimmy. In League One I think part time is the way to compete for the better players if we arent in a position to do a Toronto'"
It's true we've brought in names which I'd have though unrealistic a few months back.
Leaving aside the finance, and how it's 'suddenly appeared' when we'd all pretty much accepted that there wasn't any, the one thing we don't know is the content of the contracts. We're all well aware of the, "if a SL club comes in for me", terms and the fact that SL contracts are automatically ended on relegation, but maybe it also works between Championship and Champ1 in exactly the same way? Maybe the new signings, which appear to cover next season, just won't apply if we get relegated. Maybe all our squad will be free agents?
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| Quote Bulliac="Bulliac"It's true we've brought in names which I'd have though unrealistic a few months back.
Leaving aside the finance, and how it's 'suddenly appeared' when we'd all pretty much accepted that there wasn't any, the one thing we don't know is the content of the contracts. We're all well aware of the, "if a SL club comes in for me", terms and the fact that SL contracts are automatically ended on relegation, but maybe it also works between Championship and Champ1 in exactly the same way? Maybe the new signings, which appear to cover next season, just won't apply if we get relegated. Maybe all our squad will be free agents?'"
And considering the total lack of answers you get on every other subject from ChaLo, I wouldn't expect to know about those things until said players either turn out for us next season or confirm they've gone elsewhere.
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| Quote daveyz999="daveyz999"Toronto appear to have done alright with a full time squad in League 1.
It's all about the money...'"
I think its partly about money, yes.
But surely there's more to it with Toronto? Signing for Toronto is an adventure, a project that has something fresh and new about it. It involves living part of the year in a buzzing and vibrant city in Canada, and being part of something that could break the mould of rugby league as we know it.
You'd have to agree, surely, that this represents a more exciting and interesting prospect than signing up for a busted fallen giant that has recent history of not paying it's employees, and has training in the cold and wet Bradford weather?
Or to put it more simply. If a player is offered exactly the same money to join Toronto or the Bulls, which do you think they'd choose?
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| Quote paulwalker71="paulwalker71"I think its partly about money, yes.
But surely there's more to it with Toronto? Signing for Toronto is an adventure, a project that has something fresh and new about it. It involves living part of the year in a buzzing and vibrant city in Canada, and being part of something that could break the mould of rugby league as we know it.
You'd have to agree, surely, that this represents a more exciting and interesting prospect than signing up for a busted fallen giant that has recent history of not paying it's employees, and has training in the cold and wet Bradford weather?
Or to put it more simply. If a player is offered exactly the same money to join Toronto or the Bulls, which do you think they'd choose?'"
And a perfectly timed confirmation of this view point from Ryan Brierley
[urlhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/no-helmets-required/2017/jul/18/ryan-brierley-toronto-wolfpack-rugby-league-leigh-huddersfield-giants?CMP=share_btn_link[/url
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