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Quote: Snake Plisskin "They need to get TIW back up so I can laugh my booty off watching half of them have break downs over this.'" TIW is still down. Here is a new one to try:- forums.rlfans.com/ Not much on, but it has only been up for 12 hours.

Always sad when someone loses their job but sounds like a sensible business decision to me.Why employ somebody to do the kit full time,12 months per year when the season only lasts 7/8 months.I wouldn't be surprised if an outside contractor will be doing it for half the price and that is just common sense.

For the sake of fairness I have seen Paul selling tickets, answering enquiries and manning the shop as well as Kitman duties. I suspect he carries out other tasks too.

Very true - Paul has been around for a long time and in the old Widnes set up was a general utility man. But things have changed, can't think of any of the 'old' Widnes staff still there.

Sadly this is what is happening at more than Widnes RLFC. At least Widnes started at the top. Salford still have Simms taking a salary!

Surely a other topic for this would be far better?

In the interest of providing accurate knowledge of the role of a 'kit man', I think the majority of fans would be very surprised at the amount of 'roles' that the 'kit man' actually does.

It is not just a case of watching the game, and then washing the kit ready for next week.

I have worked with Paul and know first hand that he works far more than what would be considered normal full time hours and for what would be considered peanuts as a wage.

'Cutting the cloth accordingly'?

I'm sorry but this simply doesn't ring true. There would be plenty of less important roles and 'people' that would be far less of a loss than Paul and they would be drawing considerably more in terms of wages!

Well the people who cut the cloth and count the pennies have made their decision based on facts and figures none of us here are privy to so I will take their word for it.Surely nobody thinks this is personal.Obviously PH performed other roles such as phone answering,ticket selling etc because he had the time for it due to the kit role not being time consuming.Too much over reaction to this.Lots of good people have been shown the door at Widnes - Neil Kelly,John Stankevitch,even the great Doug Laughton IIRC. Heck even LFC showed their legend Dalglish the door.It happens,that's life.