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| Quote: Starbug "So once again we see the opinions of the sport split due to the issue of licencing , now my opinion is quite simple , I either want traditional yearly Promotion and Relegation or if that is not to be the case and we have a licence system
If we do have a licence system then what I do expect is more than what the RFL currently do to help its member clubs outside SL , and that doesn't neccessarily mean just cash given to clubs , but help on marketing at local level , because these clubs are essentially ' local clubs of a local sport for local people ' , they are not going to draw multinational blue chip companies for sponsorship and are unlikely to get the next arab shiek or russian billionaire deciding to fund them , they will survive or fail depending on the anoumt of local people and businesses they can draw through the doors
A token french club excempt from relegation and the occaisional appearance on TV wont make one iota's worth of difference to them financially'"
Two things Mr Bug.
Are you exactly sure on what assistance clubs receive? Only reason I ask is that in interviews club chairmen seem to give praise to the RFL and their hands on assistance.
Secondly doesn't the old phrase 'live within your means' ring true? If you cant afford it don't do it? It does seem to me that clubs seem to be getting themselves into financial hardship then complaining about it. None of us have the answers but if you're in debt.. scale back. If you cant afford to dine at the top table then dont. FWIW I would like to see Chp clubs receive more from central funding. Despite still posting losses at many clubs SL clubs receive enough from the Sky pie already
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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "Two things Mr Bug.
Are you exactly sure on what assistance clubs receive? Only reason I ask is that in interviews club chairmen seem to give praise to the RFL and their hands on assistance.
Secondly doesn't the old phrase 'live within your means' ring true? If you cant afford it don't do it? It does seem to me that clubs seem to be getting themselves into financial hardship then complaining about it. None of us have the answers but if you're in debt.. scale back. If you cant afford to dine at the top table then dont. FWIW I would like to see Chp clubs receive more from central funding. Despite still posting losses at many clubs SL clubs receive enough from the Sky pie already'"
They recieve money for one ' marketing ' person , which is pretty pointless unless that person has a fairly decent marketing budget which would allow them to employ people as and when needed to action marketing initiatives
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| Quote: Dico "It does seem to me that clubs seem to be getting themselves into financial hardship then complaining about it. None of us have the answers but if you're in debt.. scale back. If you cant afford to dine at the top table then dont.'"
Other than 4 or 5 clubs, most in SL are suffering financial hardship. Are you suggesting they should drop
out of SL?
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| Im saying if you cant afford it cut your cloth accordingly.
If you have someone willing to write off these debts then, by all means, fire away
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "Im saying if you cant afford it cut your cloth accordingly.
If you have someone willing to write off these debts then, by all means, fire away'"
How about if you have somebody willing to loan you £ 700 K ?
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| The cost cutting going on at Crusaders is there for all to see. I was talking about the Championship clubs anyway, no need to deflect
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "The cost cutting going on at Crusaders is there for all to see. I was talking about the Championship clubs anyway, no need to deflect'"
So which Championship clubs were you talking about ?
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32116.jpg when the score got to 50 we shouted for more, up popped brad davis went over for four.....
......and its no nay never no nay never no more will we face religation......
big barrie mac.' the cas forads av been bob on'
[quote="chissitt":3gx4tjo6]Pyeman I wish you would stop talking so much sense. I am in danger of becomming one of your biggest fans. [/quote:3gx4tjo6]
[quote="vastman":3gx4tjo6]Westerman looks the most promising for a long time.[/quote:3gx4tjo6]
[quote="Leyther_Matt":3gx4tjo6]The best proper 'rugby pub' in the country has to be the Boot Room at Cas[/quote:3gx4tjo6]
[quote="Bolton_Warrior":3gx4tjo6]The only time I ever doubted going to watch Wigan was when we bare face cheated to stay in superleague[/quote:3gx4tjo6]
[quote="Danril":3gx4tjo6] Last night, despite being poor and not deserving the win, we should have won.[/quote:3gx4tjo6]
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| Quote: SIMMSFAXTEDDY "Yeah, no probs,
we have a better ground at the start of 2012.
we both have a youth system, yours admittedly better than ours at the minute, but wev been outside of superleague for the last 7 years with no money! so to have one at all i think we are doing pretty well! (our academy setup whilst in SL challenged for honours).
We have the same main sponsor.
and we have already set minumum standards in all other areas.
any area that you are in front of is because you have had SL money behind you, if we were given the shot at SL we would improve dramically in all these areas.
this for me says our bid is as good as yours.'"
To compare the cas and halifax academy is not the best idea we have an academy and reserves that tend to be near the top of the table and has produced england players at senior, knights, u18's and and u16's in this franchise period, and has brought through milner, clarke, arundle, massey, walker, eden, thompson, holmes, davies in this franchise period while we have played westerman, shenton, owen, huby, boyle and orr from our academy in this franchise period that came through in earlier years, how many rl players have come through at fax since the last franchises. As i understand it you only currently have an u23's which is itself fairly new. With such a basic youth structure you would be lucky to produce more than a couple, if any sl quality players in the next 3 years. Your academy doing well 7 + years ago is hardly a good marker on how good you will do this time, as most of the players and staff will be differant if not all of them. Even then how many of your academy products from that era went on to play sl?
You may have set minimum standards but cas have better than minimum standards in all areas except the ground, we have an award winning comercial manager and our sponsorship activities go from strength to strength, our community dept is very good, we are competative, regularly challenging for the play offs or getting in them or crowds are about tripple what you get. Even if sl double your crowds (and bearing in mind that the floating fans that will come when your in sl will only watch so many drubbings that you will receive as you will almost certainly be in the bottom 3 f the table, so you will do well to double your average) and get 5k you will struggle to be able to afford a competitive team with out a very rich backer. cas average a few thousand more than that and the only reason we can be as competitive as we are on our small budget is because we have a top notch youth set up that brings so many players through. Salford get similar crowds to what you would get and even with a wealthy backer have struggled to get from the foot of the table since getting a franchise
Cas also have a history of financial stability never spending more than they can afford (something that the rfl have already praised, we even turned a small profit one of the years of this franchise) which is not something halifax have, cas also owning our own ground meaning that we have collateral to borrow against should we ever need to.
As you have said its difficult to compete in all these areas whilst out of the top flight, however franchising is not about giving teams a fair crack of the whip its about picking the 14 best clubs (or the 12 best clubs plus the rfls expansion projects), halifax would have to convince the rfl that they could do better or equal to castleford in most areas, which there is no evidence to suggest will be the case in fact all the evidence points the other way.
I like fax, always have , its my favorite away game, and i would love to be playing you guys in sl but you appear to weaker in all areas (bar your stadium) than salford did when they came up and they have struggled near the bottom of the table, with few home grown players, plenty of overseas players and low crowds, so to suggest the fax would do better than an even stronger club (cas) is unrealistic imho.
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50156_1266757028.jpg [b:6jl68bf5][quote="Damo-Leeds":6jl68bf5]Please tell me what a coach’s job is.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
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[quote="Matt89":6jl68bf5]phipps knows best (everything about rugby league) so don't disagree!!!![/quote:6jl68bf5]
[quote="Huddersfield1895 AKA dally messenger":6jl68bf5]
Having read the article several times I'm still confused[/quote:6jl68bf5]
[quote="Damo-Leeds":6jl68bf5]I shall keep posting on this thread and derail it as much as I want to.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
[b:6jl68bf5][quote="PHIPPS":6jl68bf5]Sadly for Wigan as soon as Maguire gets an offer from an NRL club he will be on the plane home before you can say 'meat and potato pie'[/quote:6jl68bf5]
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[quote="Conorgiantsfan":6jl68bf5]I like you Phipps. I like your style.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
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[quote="Conorgiantsfan":6jl68bf5]You really annoy me. Like genital warts, but worse.[/quote:6jl68bf5]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_50156.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "The cost cutting going on at Crusaders is there for all to see. I was talking about the Championship clubs anyway, no need to deflect'"
Thats very true about the Crusaders.
I particularly like the way they are not allowing more than about 2000 - 3000 fans into the Racecourse for games to stop unnecessary wear and tear on the seats.
Good bit of forward thinking there.
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| Good post pyeman, tough to argue against that.
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "Good post pyeman, tough to argue against that.'"
So which Championship clubs were you talking about ?
No need to deflect
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| Sorry, any of them in general really.
If they're all in trouble lower the cap, it's not about competing with SL but for example your own club are in trouble and if no one steps in you're going to have to cut the wage bill. If that ends in being demoted and at a lower level then so be it. Everyone thinks they have some divine right to dine at the big boys table and it just cant happen, Leigh/Barrow/Halifax are small towns and unless you've a welathy backer from somewhere like that you've no chance
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "Sorry, any of them in general really.
If they're all in trouble lower the cap, it's not about competing with SL but for example your own club are in trouble and if no one steps in you're going to have to cut the wage bill. If that ends in being demoted and at a lower level then so be it. Everyone thinks they have some divine right to dine at the big boys table and it just cant happen, Leigh/Barrow/Halifax are small towns and unless you've a welathy backer from somewhere like that you've no chance'"
And we are in trouble because ?
Our financial backer has suffered because of his business having companies going bust on them , something which could happen to most RL clubs
See you meant Leigh right at the start , so why didn't you just say it , you make out we have done something wrong " If you cannot dine at the big boys table " , and yet you say " if you have somebody willing to make up the shortfall , thats OK "
Make your mind up , yes Leigh Barrow and Fax are all small towns , London , Huddersfield and Wakefield aren't , and yet they are no different to us , take away their financial backer and they are bollaxed , as I said , it's all about who got lucky , Warrington did , W1g4n did , Hull did , all clubs on their harisses , but got lucky , dont try to pretend its any different
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18686.jpg In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats! They're eating the pets!:18686.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "The cost cutting going on at Crusaders is there for all to see. I was talking about the Championship clubs anyway, no need to deflect'"
I must not be looking hard enough.
The only thing I see is a parody between their situation & that of the Greeks, with the powers that be continuing to pump money into a black hole, when the majority know they won’t ever get the money back.
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