Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:03 am  

Steph Curry wrote:

Evidence please

I made it all up Steph love......

G'Night.....

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:12 am  

Donnyman wrote:

Craig are you still worried mate?? I hope the new lads coming in are signing a contract drawn up by Superleague's lawyer Hudgell that includes a clause to say they must not beat HKR......

If it is a team made up of TWPs remnants bolstered by Championship players as rumours suggest then even Rovers shouldn't be able to mess that up?
First couple of games they could be dangerous though fuelled by pride and against the odds mentality sometimes seen in sport?
After standing feeling fairly secure on 78 minutes of the MPG i never doubt my teams capacity to fluff their lines. .

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:51 am  

craig hkr wrote:

If it is a team made up of TWPs remnants bolstered by Championship players as rumours suggest then even Rovers shouldn't be able to mess that up?
First couple of games they could be dangerous though fuelled by pride and against the odds mentality sometimes seen in sport?
After standing feeling fairly secure on 78 minutes of the MPG i never doubt my teams capacity to fluff their lines. .

Yep after watching and still supporting rovers for over 50 yrs I have seen it all maybe this is to get the Team thinking it will be easy trust me with rovers it will not be

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:08 am  

Donnyman wrote:

Its a lot more than "rumours" mate, it's full on journalists reporting real events. There's to be no P & R and the £500K parachute payment is going to assist the Championship. If TWP come bottom they aren't going to be given £500K and nor are Rovers. Your two "If's are with respect not quite right, it's impossible for TWP to collapse in a financial heap or be over reliant on a benefactor.....

Their owner is a $Billionaire and so is worth at least 100 $Million if not multiples of that with more money flowing in from his Mining interests. Argyle is around 58 years old so he can fund TWP for the rest of his life easily. The problem is he and his phoney club isn't wanted and he knows that so he's been looking to buy into Melbourne - a far bigger money eating machine than TWP.

One of the needs for SL to act is Neil Hudgell. He and Crossland fund HKR and they aren't 100% committed - shown by them trying to sell the club to Tony Larvin some years back. Hudgell was furious when the crazy league system he and a number of SL bosses never wanted relegated them when they didn't come bottom and the SL clubs knew this an even looked at going to a 13 club Superleague to keep them in. That didn't work.

But they aren't going down this season, so they can maybe relax in one sense, but in another sense it would be embarrasing if they didn't finish above Toronto who are playing out their days....

With all his countless wealth why has TWP asked SL for a 200K loan, like loose change to Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up?

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:03 pm  

A few journos now reporting that the Wolfpack players have gone on strike over not being paid. They were meant to report for training and Covid-19 testing today and none have turned up.

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:20 pm  

Derwent wrote:

A few journos now reporting that the Wolfpack players have gone on strike over not being paid. They were meant to report for training and Covid-19 testing today and none have turned up.

It's the UK banking systems fault. This has been rumbling on from the start and got swept under carpet during the Caton Brown 10k fiasco. Credit to JD for sticking to his guns and reporting on the facts.

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:31 pm  

The Video Ref wrote:

Love the borderline casual racism on this thread.

I mean imagine being in any other profession or industry and saying you didn't want new colleagues from thousands of miles away / another country joining your organisation. 'Yes, why do we let these Drs and nurses from thousands of miles away (who are now having visa problems) work for the NHS'.

You would almost certainly end up on some equality and diversity refresher training and worst case scenario you would be out the door shortly after you had finished the sentence.

How is this racist it has nothing to do with colour or creed it is all to do with rules of the competition which Toronto signed up to when they joined the league. It is Toronto's responsibility to arrange Visa's for their players not the RFL's.

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:32 pm  

Harry Stottle wrote:

With all his countless wealth why has TWP asked SL for a 200K loan, like loose change to Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up?

Hi Harry,

Earlier in this thread I posted a link to the Sydney Morning Herald from February? It reported that David Argylle was offering to buy into Melbourne Storm as the owner was seeking investment partners. Your astute enough to understand none of the Superleague bosses ever wanted TWP. They let them in on a deal with Rimmer who agreed to the dumping of the middle eights and £Million pound game as long as SL did not block promotion.

TWP's reception since they joined was icy to say the least and their start put paid to the nonsense about how glamorous they were. The crowd at the Headingley Triple opener were most unimpressed.

So put simply Argyle knows when he is not wanted, and he isn't, and he now has an exit strategy to get on the Melbourne board. Therefore he's stopped bankrolling TWP which was an easy thing to do. They "only" cost him about $5M a year and as he is a $$billionaire mining magnate so that was loose change to him. Maybe he thinks pulling back is a nice piece of revenge.

Total RL/League express & Rugby Leaguer won't tell you any of this as they were so sure that North America was the future. Today's edition doesn't editorially cover the real facts as to TWP but they have allowed Gary Schofield to tell some home truths,

But the bottom line is Argyle has stopped bankrolling them. His dream of an NRL club that he always wanted has taken him away.......

And as you know TWP are NOTHING without Argyle

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:56 pm  

Harry Stottle wrote: Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up? https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/wolfpa ... 542qn.html Here we go Harry And there we go Mr Argyle.. and Mr. Perez and Mr. Wilby. No charge for the link mate, just pleased you have the truth at your fingertips.......

Harry Stottle wrote: Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up? https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/wolfpa ... 542qn.html Here we go Harry And there we go Mr Argyle.. and Mr. Perez and Mr. Wilby. No charge for the link mate, just pleased you have the truth at your fingertips.......

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:16 pm  

Gary Carter, The Sun, announces that Toronto will not play again in SL2020. Club Statement to follow.

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Club confirms