Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:32 pm  

Over reliance on his favourite players and an arrogance that caused a refusal to change tactics when it was crying out for a change. You can try an deflect the blame from Rowley but that is what happened.

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:13 am  

Peter Kay wrote:

Ive watched them , he had no one to replace the players with so hence the burn out , since hes left the club has gone downhill the smoke screen of super league just covered the cracks anyone could have got us into sl

Have you taken your medication Peter?

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:06 am  

atomic wrote:

Have you taken your medication Peter?

Why ? .. dont you think it hasnt ? .... the dream has gone due to idiotic decisions made by someone with no RL experience a fat wallet & an ego the size of Jupiter.. lets buy a whole new team ill throw in the words NRL & get the scrotum holders on side .. its not a board game sir dirk its real life

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:16 am  

reffy wrote:

Aye, cut to the chase, carve it on a tree, it was a conspiracy by all the incompetent referees that stitched us us.

No dropped balls, no missed tackles, no boring play, no indisciple; all down to the refs ( and RFL)

Whatever happened to the Referee of our Match at Wakefield? I've never seen as many bad decisions given against a team, there is doubt at all that he cost us that night and, I think the RFL must have thought so too?

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:42 am  

Alan wrote:

I would like nothing better than have a vibrant academy setup, with progression to the first grade squad.

However, the reality is, and always has been, the proximity of SL clubs such as Wigan, Warrington & Saints - and even currently Widnes and Salford. They will almost always take the cream, and leave us with slim pickings. There will always be some of the remainder who flourish, but the expenditure on a proper academy set up may not justify the odd couple of stars graduating through the ranks.

Also, are there not strict RFL guidelines as to who can operate academy sides?

I am sure that I once read a quote from Warrington (ex player still involved, maybe Briers) who said along the lines of, don't understand or agree with Clubs who claim it is too expensive to run an Academy, £60/70k is what it costs at Wire !

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:52 am  

GUBRATS wrote:

Norman , Similarily with Bradford ' if you produce them it is almost impossible to keep them , there are several players at our SL neighbours ( England Internationals ) who we had at scholarship level but were ' poached' at academy induction

You have to consider the return on investment

You also have to consider it might be a future criteria to inclusion in SL & while we are not SL ready now, without an Academy we quite possibly never will be !

Say we have an Academy & circa 3k crowds & solvent & Salford have no Academy with circa 2k crowds, all criteria considered who gets the nod for SL if it goes to franchise ?

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:25 am  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

You also have to consider it might be a future criteria to inclusion in SL & while we are not SL ready now, without an Academy we quite possibly never will be !

Say we have an Academy & circa 3k crowds & solvent & Salford have no Academy with circa 2k crowds, all criteria considered who gets the nod for SL if it goes to franchise ?

Toulouse

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:20 am  

reffy wrote:

Aye, cut to the chase, carve it on a tree, it was a conspiracy by all the incompetent referees that stitched us us.

No dropped balls, no missed tackles, no boring play, no indisciple; all down to the refs ( and RFL)

You are Stewart Cummings & I claim my £5 reward.

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:51 am  

LeythIg wrote:

Toulouse

Probably & regardless

Re: Jukes ‘ The Million Pound ‘ mistake : Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:25 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

I am sure that I once read a quote from Warrington (ex player still involved, maybe Briers) who said along the lines of, don't understand or agree with Clubs who claim it is too expensive to run an Academy, £60/70k is what it costs at Wire !

Probably would/should have been an achievable aim Ste, when we were 'cash rich' the past couple of years. In our current situation, it sounds an awful lot of money!