Atomic ,others have already said how your posts send them to sleep, I find you better than Horlicks and you would have to have a fair sized set of choppers to bite your tongue , take a chill pill my son.

No worries Mick, if you can back up your points with links to Dereks rants about James Lowes or Bradford then please do as for the SC any sane person can see its a clear restraint of trade within the Championship at present and will get changed...

Look forward to wiping the floor with Fax in Feb

How many Championship teams spent under 500K last season? All but 2?Fax spent less than 400K(Not forgetting that in that spend is factored in win bonuses and appearance money). Some ran with squads ranging from about 25 to 30 and above didnt they? But 400K split between a squad of 25 is only about 16k per man and considering more high profile players will be on more than that then you are pretty naive if you think no player in the championship is on 7k or less per season.

There's isn't a single player on less than that..

What about the married ones?

Clueless.

Is it not a "second job" for the majority, holding a full time job elsewhere - with rugby being a part time role and in theory not many hours per week?

7k or less doesn't sound unreasonable to me

It wouldn't surprise me to know that part-time Championship players would be on a contract of less than £10k + win /lose payments per game played.

As for full-time players, weren't SL teams only allowed to have so many on a contract of over £20k - or have things changed in more recent seasons?

Alan it's obvious none of us are privy to what players earn either part time or full time,but we can be realistic to earn 20 k a season it's only around 400 pound a week,I can't see many full time players accepting this ,I've been told what some Wigan players are earning and it's a fair few quid more than 20k ,I would think the top earners at Leigh are on more than that too.Whatever the part time players are on I don't know,why has this debate been started though?Maybe it's because of fans speculating why Rangi has t signed yet ,myself I would like to see Rangi play for us next season but I don't think it will happen unless a few of the current contracted players decide to leave.
I do think next year will be a make or break season which worries me I just hope the fans have faith in Derek and support him with their feet through the turnstiles at the LSV Derek has put a big investment into the Club I hope we as Fans can show we appreciate what he is doing .

Average of close to 4k last year hopefully 5k next year..

Hold on to your seats it's gonna be fun!!

Ste to average 5000 next season will be a very big achievement by the Club, I hope you are right ,it's not that long ago we were getting gates of 2000 and less for the lower end fixtures,that's why I as hoping we would sign Rangi to boost gates , at the moment I'm not sure we can average 5000 a game , again I hope you are right .