Re: sammut left : Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:07 pm  

Where I work, theres 5 of us from the same team all about to jump ship, for a better job.

When people start leaving, it's never a good sign. It won't be rosy in camp. It's not just the off field uncertainty that will worry players like before, but theres relegation now so theres on field to take into account. This is a players living, if the bulls do get relegated it will leave many players scrabbling around for a super league contract so they can support themselves.

It's going to be tough this season for bradford. I mean which 2 teams are gonna go down?

You can rule out straight away: Leeds, wigan, saints, hull, hull kr, huddersfield, warrington, catalans and salford.

That leaves 5 'maybes' - Wakefield, widnes, london, bradford and cas. Of those maybes, I would rule out widnes and wakefield. Neither is strong enough to be in the ruled out straight away pile, but both have class in their teams and have had a stable coaching set up for a few seasons which has seen them perform solidly.

So that only leaves bradford, london and cas. Cas improved under powell but have lost rangi chase.

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:06 pm  

vbfg wrote:

Who is putting the blame elsewhere? The discussion is about subsequent events. That there would have been no such events without a succession of failures on the various parties involved is so trite as to be meaningless.

People screwed up and therefore everything that follows is irrelevant? Is that really your point? It's not a negative view, it just makes no sense. It's self evident that the way in which situations are dealt with matters.

The RFL this......
The other clubs that......

Blah blah blah.

However, the fact remains that if WE had not screwed up in the first instance then nothing else could have gone wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right I concede but, as I said, it is our fault we got where we are.

Heck, even when we were doing well we overspent our budget. It has been going on for years.

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:51 pm  

Bulls and Cas to get relegated,worst game I have seen for a long long time

London have nowt to worry about watching that poop

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:04 pm  

The same london that just got taken to the cleaners at widnes.

Re: sammut left : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:19 pm  

Thursday is going to be embarrassing. Sammut will rip us to bits. Why oh why cummins have you allowed him to leave and given a new contract to Gale. Embarrassing!

Kicking out on the full on the 1st tackle inside Cas's 20m.
That play summed up the decision. Im losing confidence in Cummins. We look shot after 60mins and same players making pathetic attempts at tackles. Yes the squad isn't the best but they are still PROFESSIONAL rugby league players who should know how to tackle.

We'll be taken to the cleaners on Thursday!

Re: sammut left : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:25 pm  

I'm now even more angry with Cummins for letting Sammut go but giving Gale a new contract. Apart from the kick for Purtell's try, Gale was poor today.

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:26 pm  

London will come good in a few weeks time, I have a feeling...

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:49 pm  

Interview with Lamb on radio Leeds was good, talked a lot of sense.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Keith Mason here in the next week or so, from the way he was talking on the radio.

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:00 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

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Example if you don;t get the point:

4 club league.
TOTAL to be distributed £70,000
AGREEMENT - A gets half the distribution of B,C,D

A gets 1 share, B C and D get 2 shares each. So we need a total of 7 shares, @ £10,000 a share.

A gets £1o,000
B C and D get £2o,000 each. The £70000 has been distributed as per agreement

- - - - - - - - - - -

Whereas what seems to have happened is

£70,000 / 4 = £17,500
Last year A B C D got £17,500 each.
So this year we give them £17,500 each. And we give A half that, namely £ 8,750
And we then have £8,750 left over.
So we give a third of that to B and C and D. Another £2,916 each.

Result:
A gets a distribution of £8750

B C and D get a distribution of £ 20,416.

That is nearer 42% than half. And next year, let's nick some more and divvy it.

But is not the agreement to be deducted one years worth of funding, in your example £17500 per club, over two years, which means we would indeed get £8750 for each year and the other £8750 indeed does gets divid up? I have not seen any reference to the agreement being that we receive 1/27th of the funding over two years, which is your first example

Re: Ownership and twists : Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:38 pm  

Pumpetypump wrote:

The same london that just got taken to the cleaners at widnes.

Yes the same London,we were terrible today and Cas not much better,worst game I have seen in years