no way.

no gimmicks.

slow and steady development.

focus on season tickets and try to get crowds to 6000 or so.

You’re right, I don’t have a reply, mainly because im not explaining how the cap works,

Im not explaining the theory of gravity either, so I wouldn’t have a reply if you started pretending I was explaining that as well,

Just to clear up your confusion, im talking about the problems of asking CC to compete with the WRU clubs for players, when we are asking them to spend much less aswell

And im sure it has been enlightening for you, it strikes me that figuring out what a tap does would be enlightening to you

excellent.

selective amnesia is so funny.

smokey, dally, mind if if join in?

think saturday's game at the willows will be really interesting in terms of the standard of rugby that will be on show. i felt that leeds and the big occcasion brought some great rugby out of the crusaders and im looking forward to seeing if they can keep that up vs a team that has, like themselves, ust come from the national leagues.
if they stay lucky with injuries i think celtic could finish anywhere up to about 11th. looking forward to the game and a great weekend of rugby league.

You know, RL and RU clubs are competition for juniors and established players 365 days a year and some idiot on here still thinks there are two separate markets....

I don't care.

cared enough to reply

Probably not... Exeter play in the Summer Conference, and deal directly with the RFL. There's probably a notional BARLA tie-in somewhere, but I've never ever seen BARLA on any letterhead or development area cheque. We get our fixtures from, and report results to, Dave Lowe and Phil Caplan respectively.

That all sounds very complicated. Very Rugby League.

It's remarkably simple for rugby league! When I played up north I often wondered if BARLA was really necessary. Now I run a development area team, I know that it isn't!

I honestly havent given the time to look into how it all works, but from the little bit of info I gather in reading news, I get the feeling that BARLA was set up to make certain people feel very important about themselves.

I would suggest thats how its turned out, not why it was set up.

BARLA has very little to do with Amateur RL outside of the heartlands.
The politicing and hostility to development from some, has meant that the RFL runs the summer Conference.