We may be paying up to the full SC but we cannot get the same quality of players to come to London because as others and i think yoursef have pointed out we have to pay maybe £30,000 more in London weighting for the same standard of player that plays up North which meens we cant sign the same quality of overseas players like Wire and Wigan get, and because Northern players have family networks, schools for the kids, wives jobs etc., Up North they wont come down willingly even if we were allowed to equalise out the money.

IT IS NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.
If you give 100% effort though you may beat the odds as teams get injuries, make mistakes and have off days. Its the lack of effort and failure to do the basics which anoys most of us - not the losing. We are used to losing but even the most hardy of us are being worn down by this never ending basement team.

Its gonna change soon! With the new set-up for 2015 it will definitely spell the end for this club as it is currently constructed. The only question is whether we will be around to see it. It requires NEW THINKING and NEW MONEY. The two main things we lack at the moment. I can only hope that Brian Barwick (who has been to the Stoop at least twice this season) can bring about some changes. The current salary cap penalises us by 30% and the best northerners won't come anyway. The World Cup might tempt someone to turn it around, stranger things have happened in our history.

Bear in mind the exchange rate when buying aussies. Terry Matterson on £130k back in the mid 90s would have been near the AUS$300k mark per annum.

Now to get an aussie for AUS$300k would cost you around £70,000+ more.

Yes. If you don't retain the ball, don't complete your sets, and don't make your tackles, you lose.

That's not what was said. What was said is that they play to the referees whistle. You try something, and if you get away with it you keep doing it. Every good rugby team does that.

No doubt about the skills, but if they played behind a team that don't do the basics they'd have less opportunity to show those skills.

the thing that keeps our players keen is they are all replaceable and wane will drop any player not doing his job we have young players who can step into the first team and not look out of place. London don't have that stick to beat the first team players with if any of your first team players are missing and an under 21s steps in you have a drop in standards.