Quote: post "It really makes me laugh when people try and say Greenwood replaced Bateman, in that case who replaced Joel? Greenwood again? He must be able to make duplicates of himself like Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen.
Who did he replace? He can’t do both. But like Jukesays, Joel’s money was swallowed up by contract extensions, I don’t believe that for 1 minute. Joel would have been on decent money coming back from Union, £130k I reckon and there’s no way that’s been swallowed up. That’s been the excuse for years with where all the money has gone ever since we thought once Vaealikis contract ran out we would have big money to spend, then Fieldens contract then Sams and every year we seem to have fewer players or perceived less wages.
Either someone is bad at negotiating at the club and is paying players more than they should be, or the squad is too large and chocked full of wasted cap space through injuries or we are being lied to about how much cap space is available and someone is doing a Daniel Levy.'"
And it makes me laugh when people try and make out that 1 player out should equal 1 player in etc. And make it out to be that simple.
Truth is neither me nor you have any idea the complications involved in running a successful professional sport in a salary cap era (or outside for that matter).
Difference is some people acknowledge there must be difficulties and it isn't as simple as people think whilst others just complain and pretend they could do better.
Greenwood was lined up to replace Bateman, we got him early because of the Joel situation (I'm pretty sure the men in charge probably didn't get any credit for being cut throat enough to do that and spotting that opportunity which ultimately helped us get a 4th GF under this management).
Whichever you want to say he replaced the other persons money will have been snapped up by contract extensions and improvements for gildart/davies/marshall etc. Etc. Etc.
There was a thread among th or so ago where someone listed the players who left each year for the past 6/7 years and then listed who and come in.
Tried to make we were 10/15 players less on bringing in.
Completely forgot about players who had come in to the squad through the youth like
Budgie
George William's
Oliver gildart
Tom Davies
Jack wells
Sam Powell
Ryan sutton
Etc
Etc
Etc
And trust me the list is far longer than the amount he thought we had under recruited.
Wants to list players as leaving without recognising them ever coming in to the squad in the first place.
Where do they come from? Thin air?
No, through years of scouting, recruiting, scholarships, academies and a hell of a lot of hard work.
These lads deserved to be paid and I don't want a return to the days when 95% of the cap was taken by 25% of the players, which led after a few injuries to real proper salary cap breaches and disasters on the field, which in turn led to too much short term thinking I.e. Wayne Macdonald, Tim jonkers, Liam botham etc etc etc.
And your final paragraph is exactly what this is about, inference that leneghan is lining his pockets, robbing money out of our pockets.
Yet the books don't show that do they, how do we break the cap if we aren't spending up to the cap?
I've made my feelings known that I think we are hanging on to a bit too much of the last group of youth I.e. ganson/field/woods/shorrocks etc and that may not have helped and some wrong decisions have been made.
But are you saying hes lying?
Are you saying the books are fiddled?
Come out and say it, I'm sure there'll be lawyers queuing up to have a conversation with you about it.
although we might now end up with Boris Johnson
