just a thought, if Briscoe goes to Leeds who out of Ben Jones-bishop or Callum Watkins would be surplus from the current backline.

There is nothing wrong with the scouting and player development as it is. As an example we just signed a young lad on pro forms from Cumbria on a four year deal. It's working well as it is.

The money needs to go on new players, period. Central Park? South Wales? No way.

People can argue there are no world class players about but this misses the point. Whoever is the best available is who we need to sign. Not signing the best available because they don't come up to some false measure of the standard of who we should be signing is nuts.

We also ought to be able to prise away players who aren't officially available. If the NZW can do it to us, we can do it to other clubs here.

Kirmond and Briscoe spring to mind as two candidates that in the current climate you could easily justify spending cash on.

Their clubs may even hold out for a larger fee than you might expect given we are cash-rich but so what? The market will determine their worth and we either pay it or pass up the chance to improve the squad with these kind of players.

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I agree. It really is time to move for players like Kirmond as opposed to Clubb.

Why would it take revenue away from takings inside the stadium? It wouldn't be in the stadium or near it I assume and wouldn't be a game-day venue would it?

In Australia as someone else mentioned they used to have their leagues clubs that generated a lot of revenue for the teams but I am sure this was based on the fact they operated as small casinos with slot machines and the like and this came to end (the gaming aspect not the clubs themselves) a while back.

So the idea of a bar/club that generated revenue for the team would be good[i if it did in fact generate enough revenue.[/i

You would want a really high and pretty quick return on any such investment to make it worthwhile and while I have no figures or idea how much you could expect from such a club my gut feeling is not a lot. Pubs and clubs don't seem to be big money spinners!

More Ethan Hunt technology.

The investment in disguising Adam Blair this season has been good but the technique needs some improvement.

According to Mark Bitcon the club are preparing to use more of this technology to disguise players such as Billy Slater and Sonny Bill Williams in 2014.

Tony Clubb and Dan Sarginson? - Yeah right.

Not good enough if true.

The whole article is pretty depressing and IL's usual platitudes such as it being flattering are worn out.

Possibly the best players from the teams in SL which don't really challenge for the CC or GF?

Clark from Cas
Tom Briscoe
Kirkmond
etc

or even try to offer a big money move for one of the best players from the other top clubs?

Watkins? Lomax? Dealings from SL team to SL may be more likely, it's common in Aus for a top player to leave one club to play for another.

Briscoe wouldn't require a fee.
Etc here clearly means you couldn't think of anyone else!

Lenagan could lauch satellites into space and use mind control devices on ... hold on a minute, he's already doing that, perhaps he could construct a death star to rule the universe.
Failing that he can spend some money on hanging baskets like the local council have done.

Simply unacceptable to anyone with half a brain.

As an example why don't we offer Saints a large amount for Lomax?

What about offering Wire a huge amount for Chris Hill?