Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:31 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: Solomona has now been registered as a Sale player!!! https://twitter.com/BBCMancSports/statu ... 1299195908 I wonder if Sale have got the backing of the RU on this one? If so their friends in high places could spell real problems for the future of RL...but I suppose there's nothing new in that.

Rogues Gallery wrote: Solomona has now been registered as a Sale player!!! https://twitter.com/BBCMancSports/statu ... 1299195908 I wonder if Sale have got the backing of the RU on this one? If so their friends in high places could spell real problems for the future of RL...but I suppose there's nothing new in that.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:55 pm  

Winslade's Offload wrote:

Well there is an upside to all this. Over the last 12 months, for some reason or other, the pound has dropped by around 20-25 % against the Euro and US dollar (although it's doing very well against the Zimbabwean currency, which I think is called the dried elephant turd). But anyway, it's also dropped by the same amount against the Aussie dollar. Hence Aussie stars will soon be completely out of reach for RL clubs and we will not have to worry about contract problems at all.

..... course that does mean our better players are dirt cheap for the NRL so we may lose a few more, but it will allow some of our past academy players like Danny Bridge, Glen Riley, Ryan Shaw etc a chance to play SL. And of course it would be great to welcome the likes of Jordan Cox and Anthony England back again. If it wasn't for the contract problems, we might even have asked Roy Asotasi to ......, no I think perhaps that really is going a bit far.

You're a bit out of date there friend. I think you will find the drop in the pound is now considerably less.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:31 pm  

Think you will find that, despite a small recent improvement, the £ is still down by nearly 20% compared with 12 months ago on the Aus $.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:18 am  

The apathetic, shoulder-shrugging, tut-tutting subservient inaction on display by the RFL and the British game as a whole over the Sandow, Solomona and Segeyaro incidents is another sign that the professional game in England is on life-support, and fading fast.

The players, agents, NRL and RU are collectively holding us up to ridicule, and laughing at the jelly-spined responses being muttered in response. Frankly, yes, if we have to go to court to stop Sandow (and the other two) signing for any club and force him to see out the rest of his contract sat doing nothing then that's fine by me.

People who say "what's to be gained" need to understand that this isn't about a player being homesick, it is about the integrity of the sport, the reputation of the game as a professional sport and quite simply, what is right and wrong, what is acceptable and what is not.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:03 am  

"It does not mean that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued."

Prime Minister Harold Wilson


He was right so long as we spent our money here and suppliers did the same.
Unless someone likes Vegimite or kangaroo steaks, then there might be an issue.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:48 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

"It does not mean that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued."

Prime Minister Harold Wilson


He was right so long as we spent our money here and suppliers did the same.
Unless someone likes Vegimite or kangaroo steaks, then there might be an issue.

Yeah because that's the extent to which we rely on imports

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:16 am  

I still have the same confidence in the pound in my pocket.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:36 am  

49er wrote:

Think you will find that, despite a small recent improvement, the £ is still down by nearly 20% compared with 12 months ago on the Aus $.

Winslade's Offload wrote:

Well there is an upside to all this. Over the last 12 months, for some reason or other, the pound has dropped by around 20-25 % against the Euro and US dollar (although it's doing very well against the Zimbabwean currency, which I think is called the dried elephant turd). But anyway, it's also dropped by the same amount against the Aussie dollar. Hence Aussie stars will soon be completely out of reach for RL clubs and we will not have to worry about contract problems at all.

..... course that does mean our better players are dirt cheap for the NRL so we may lose a few more, but it will allow some of our past academy players like Danny Bridge, Glen Riley, Ryan Shaw etc a chance to play SL. And of course it would be great to welcome the likes of Jordan Cox and Anthony England back again. If it wasn't for the contract problems, we might even have asked Roy Asotasi to ......, no I think perhaps that really is going a bit far.

Interestingly the pound was in a worse state back in the times afer the credit crunch from 2010 to 2013 when we won two cups and a LLS. ...

From memory superleague was full of Aussie stars back then...Monaghans Hodgson Hoffman finch Blake green. Etc. .

I don't think it's anything to do with conversion rates at all its the fact that Segeyaro sandow and solomona are greedy and don't respect the people that offered them a life line or a chance and paid them well. ...very well in some cases.

They have snatched the first better offer that has come their way.

Whats worse is that all three poop houses will end up at clubs that denied any initial interest in them. ..

Its business but dirty business if you ask me. I hope all parties get their just deserts. ..

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:29 pm  

From what I've seen of wing play in RU, there's a fair chance that Solomona will catch pneumonia more often than a rugby ball.

Re: Oh dear Chris Sandow : Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:34 pm  

What a terrible fight between him and carney! I'd have given it to Sandow based on the fact he landed one punch out of 20 thrown whilst carney landed zero out of 5 punches thrown

Regards

King James