Well all I suspected about our leaders is contained in the article by Martyn Sadler in League Express on Monday!

For example if presented to an AGM as a Chairmans report, it would have been extremely difficult to spin it in a positive light?
ie

Operating Turnover down by 12.2%
Sponsorship Income down by 48.9%
Saving on wages bill (due to getting rid of staff, sorry redundancies of non essential staff) down 9.2%

BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS!!!

Directors remuneration up 22%
Highest paid director up 32% (no second guessing who that might be) to £223.3 k.
Pension payment by the RFL 19.5 % of salary about £40k.

We might be forgiven if we thought it was the banking group of ompetent inc. (fictitious name)

Yes not sure I understand the psychology of that - failure is rewarded if you are a director? Those dog's had a much harder time with Pavlov!!

Every hour of our lives 24/7 is now enhanced by the knowledge that our great leader's personal wealth increased by another £37, day and night. THAT'S what I call VFM. Gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside.

I'd feel better if he was on £300k a week, not a year, but you can't have everything.

If you don't pay top dollar the best people will look elsewhere.

I always thought that people who work in England should be said in English pounds. That might be just me.

Was that a joke? Top Dollar or Top People????????

'Kin ell.

Or about 100,000 Big Mac's with a side order of a 40' container of fries.

Still maybe we should count ourselves lucky as I think the head of UK Athletics pockets about £500k - something to keep in mind the next time you buy a lottery ticket

As luck would have it I just managed to get a shot of Nige's wage being delivered to Red Hall



Or is it his lunch, I'm not sure

Yes. That is the only issue with what I said.

It could be, looks like Queensbury in the background.

no its that suburb of Queenbury, Mountain. always thought it ironic that the Bradford divers club was on top of about the highest inhabited hill in the city. On the other hand there is always plenty of water above the place.

The delivery is actually just taking off, it is an obscure region of Siberia called Pukkapiestan.

That's always been the call from the 10% though hasn't it, Maccbull? They get a big rise and it's, 'essential to keep the best people', but when you [and me] want a bit more to increase our pittance it will be no, 'cos that will 'set off a new round of inflation'. And, of course, one or two at the RFL are inflated enough..

You must be thinking of the good old days of equality - more like the 1% now. On a philosophical note it has always puzzled me why the "best" people would seem only to be motivated by cash rewards as best is not necessarily the adjective I would use