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| Quote: Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza "No sounds fanciful tbh. Bradford need to remain as a stand alone club.
Fax to merge with the other greater Manchester clubs.'" ]
Why what do Bradford bring apart from a couple of thousand fans a massive turd of a stadium and a yearly administration |
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| Quote: Fully "Cas increased their turnover to £6m and recorded a record £691,000 profit for 2017
Achieved through selling players and reaching the Grand Final.
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| Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "Achieved through selling players and reaching the Grand Final.'"
Well, yes. How is that a bad thing? |
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| Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "Achieved through selling players and reaching the Grand Final.'"
Sold Johnson & McLelland for under 100k? They SPENT 250k on players, however.
3 years of profit in a row, one of what...3? 4? self sufficient teams in the league. |
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| Quote: Fully "Cas increased their turnover to £6m and recorded a record £691,000 profit for 2017
Very impressive!
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| Not if you believe bitter wakey fans on here, we are being propped up By a sugar daddy  |
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| Quote: Cas Till I Die "Not if you believe bitter wakey fans on here, we are being propped up By a sugar daddy ![]()
Point me to a "bitter" Wakey fan whose said that?
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "Oldham,Rochdale & Swinton
Leeds & Hunslet
Cas, Featherstone & Wakefield
Huddersfield, Batley and Dewsbury'"
Oldham & Rochdale could be a go-er , call them North Manchester.
Swinton are a Salford Club & so Salford/Swinton could be done in new stadium more centrally located.
Cas/Fev/Wakey = never gonna happen.
Wigan/Leigh = Never gonna happen.
Hull F.C/Hull K.R = Never gonna happen.
Wire/Widnes = Never gonna happen.
What about London/Hemel ?
Cumbria could work ( & probably needs to ) |
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| Quote: Willzay "Point me to a "bitter" Wakey fan whose said that?'"
Quote: Willzay ""Make a profit" ??
Is that why you sold you best player "cash upfront" to Wire a couple of seasons ago.
Also, how much of the Fulton loans are still on the books or, were they written off when he passed away ?
Having a wealthy guy to take care of any losses seems a little different from being "in profit".
Agree about competent on the field and not sure about the use of the cap and any marque player(s)
The cup run and hub cap have certainly helped and well done on those.'"
Key there is where your ill informeed wakey pal put speech marks in between “make a profit “.....
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "I fully understand the sentiment in your post, however, if you cut out the 2nd and 3rd tier of the sport and rely on club academies to prepare players for SL, you will kill the sport, you would also massively alienate the fans who do attend those games and whilst some may drift towards their nearest SL club, the majority of them would be lost to the game and probably their kids and grand kids as well.
We need the whole RL pyramid to be as strong as possible, all the way through the amateur game, right up to SL and International level.
If you take out one or 2 levels you would kill the game.
Yes, there are ageing players in The Championship and League 1 BUT, there are also young kids learning their trade.
Many SL sides have players on dual reg at Championship and League 1 sides. Should they sit in the stands and vegetate or maybe just chuck them on the scrapheap if they haven't made the grade at a particular point in time.'"
All true.
Let's take my club Leigh & say that a merger with Wigan is forced/foisted upon Leigh, what would happen.
Roughly at Championship level that is 4,000 lost fans to the Pro game, at SL level last year that's roughly 5,500 - 6,000 lost to the Pro game. Where do those fans go ? Not Wigan *who will still be Wigan* but maybe 300 - 400 to both Leigh Miners & Leigh East, so the town Amateur Clubs gain maybe 600 - 800 fans between them but potentially 4-5k lost from Leigh Centurions, net loss to the game of 3,200 - 5,200 !!! Worth it ? |
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| Quote: Ste100Centurions "All true.
Let's take my club Leigh & say that a merger with Wigan is forced/foisted upon Leigh, what would happen.
Roughly at Championship level that is 4,000 lost fans to the Pro game, at SL level last year that's roughly 5,500 - 6,000 lost to the Pro game. Where do those fans go ? Not Wigan *who will still be Wigan* but maybe 300 - 500 to both Leigh Miners & Leigh East, so the town Amateur Clubs gain maybe 800 fans between them but potentially 4-5k lost from Leigh Centurions, net loss to the game of 3,200 - 5,200 !!! Worth it ?'"
Well said. I can see the 2 expansionists on here, with their 17 accounts ...... head spinning for a reply |
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| Quote: WakeyTrin1873 "Castleford and Wakefield even as a Wakefield fan, has always made sense to me. Along with Fev thrown in there, crowds would increase and the three would be better off financially. I could only consider them being called Wakefield though.'"
There wouldn't be 3 better off, there would be 1 & thousands of lost fans to the game ! |
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