Sorry for being a pedant but £750K will not get you 40 nurses...25 maybe with on costs.

The RL authorities should be ashamed of themselves. Its been obvious for years that the game has been failing to achieve financial stability, let alone growth and that the structures and management of the SL are not fit for purpose.

Bradford have finished something like 14 times above Hudds c/w 3 to Hudds in the SL era & get double HUdds crowds. Presumably you mean Hudds have been the better side over the previous 3 years as that suits your argument? Hudds only manage thanks to Davy's generosity (& long may that continue). They are no different to over half of SL clubs, or most pro sports clubs, in that respect. Only Leeds seem to manage & grow without a benefactor. Lets get rid of Saints as well as they lost a million the previous season.

I'll take your £50 bet if you take mine, Wire will finish above Salford.

I don't think 10 teams would work with the current format, just increasing the amount of times teams play each other would risk making the events stale & lead to lower attendances. I think it could work if there was an expanded world club challenge involving French clubs. But that is a while off without massive investment in the French game, commitment from Aus, & funding from TV. Chicken & egg. Your 10 game suggestion would need Sky approval, otherwise we would be fecked. It works in yawnion & cricket where the leagues are now secondary to European & limited over competitions, but they have the internationals to fund expansion.

And your credible solutions to the problems? It's easy & fashionable to make extreme statements, but, contrary to belief, there have been some decent talent on board with the RFL. Lindsay, Watkins, Waite, Walker, Lewis, Edwards are not stupid people & have struggled to make RL sustainable. No different from all major sports. Without huge TV revenue we are limited to what we can do. I am not a fan of Wood, but that is largely due to the image of a fat, stereotypical northerner he portrays to the media. What I would do different is for the RFL to take control of RL in London & direct development there, if the amateurish attempts there are to be believed.

Average wage of a newly qualified nurse is £21000 so nearer 40 than 25. Sorry for being pedantic! To$$er

I'm talking about the present day, realistically Huddersfield's on field prospects are better than Bradford's, surely you agree with that? Don't understand the rlevance of your Warrington-Salford bet :s I think there are a lot of stale events anyway, when we play Salford, Wakefield etc it's pretty damn boring. I'd rather play 3 close games against Leeds that 2 plus a drubbing against Salford.

Back to Salford; easy way to cut running costs would be to not bother running an Academy team.

Can't see Wigan wanting any of their young lads any where near the set-up at Salford. Powell and Murphy to follow the route of Mellor and Marsh.

And that old boy gets us back to the old chestnut of sides at the bottom living off the good work put in by the bigger clubs.....

Says in the paper that they will have a reply fron the council by Tuesday if there go in to liquidation.

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If you're going to call someone a to$$er (which, by the way, I wouldn't advise unless you don't want to post here again) it's better to know the facts. The cost of a nurse is not just their salary, it would also include employers National Insurance and pension which is likely to take it to over £25k. Which would be about 30, which last time I looked was nearer to 25 than 40.

They have recently announced a player link up with Oldham. What the hell will Oldham will get out of this?