Whilst in one aspect true, if Wakey are £450k UNDER the cap that works out at and average of £22,500k per player for your top 20 players. That’s a significant amount that they wouldn’t ignore if they could be getting near or more than that elsewhere from a club that can afford it.
Why is everybody underrating last year's Challenge Cup winner?
Possibly because they let one of if not the most influential player in Drinkwater leave and have replaced them with Matty Smith. Also they don't travel well.
I really like Catalans but they haven't recruited well so far, their "best" 17 IMO is average and as previously said they have never consistently performed all season. Fantastic achievement in winning the CC though.
Full Back – Sam Tomkins
Wing – Jodie Broughton Centre – Brayden Wiliame Centre – Tony Gigot Wing – David Mead
Stand off – Samisoni Langi Scrum Half – Matty Smith
Prop – Sam Moa Hooker – Michael McIlorum Prop – Remi Casty Second Row – Kenny Edwards Second Row – Ben Garcia Loose – Greg Bird
I really like Catalans but they haven't recruited well so far, their "best" 17 IMO is average and as previously said they have never consistently performed all season. Fantastic achievement in winning the CC though.
Full Back – Sam Tomkins
Wing – Jodie Broughton Centre – Brayden Wiliame Centre – Tony Gigot Wing – David Mead
Stand off – Samisoni Langi Scrum Half – Matty Smith
Prop – Sam Moa Hooker – Michael McIlorum Prop – Remi Casty Second Row – Kenny Edwards Second Row – Ben Garcia Loose – Greg Bird
You didn't name a full 17, which is misleading because they have a strong bench, with Julien Bousquet and Kenny Edwards coming off it.
The team, based upon Steven McNamara's past choices, is more likely to be:
Full Back – Antoine Gigot
Wing – Jodie Broughton Centre – Brayden Wiliame Centre – David Mead Wing – Lewis Tierney
Stand off – Samuel Tomkins Scrum Half – Matthew Smith
Prop – Samuel Moa Hooker – Michael McIlorum Prop – Remi Casty Second Row – Benjamin Jullien Second Row – Benjamin Garcia Loose – Gregory Bird
Interchange: Julien Bousquet, Antoni Maria, Kenny Edwards, Jason Baitieri
Reserves: Samisoni Langi, Alrix da Costa
That is not an average team but a very impressive team, worthy of at least a top five place.
JESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them.
Why is everybody underrating last year's Challenge Cup winner?
Because I've never met a poor bookie and they have Catalan at 16/1 to win SL, the 7th longest odds.....below Saints, Warrington, Wigan, Castleford, FC and Leeds.
I also think they will be nowhere near the Play-offs because Catalan lost 5 from 7 in the S8's, or if you prefer, Lost 17 from 30 with a win ratio of a mere 43%for the entire SL & 8"s campaign 2018.
See....that's a statistical evaluation based on their form last year as well as the predictions of the Bookmakers across the UK and not a blind and constant inane effort to wind up the English by someone who is not French pretending to be French and bigging up anything that isn't English.
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