Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:58 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

No alarm bells ringing here. Our chairman knows our spending limits and is ruling the books with an iron fist.

Bradford on the other hand...

Aye, 29 players on their roster so far.
Lots of players to keep happy.

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:14 pm  

So if Bradford go into admin again, will it go off their 1st league or the mini league?

Re: walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:26 pm  

bellycouldtackle wrote:

Shame he was never given a chance by Agar, gutted that he has gone. No blame attached to Lucas or for a change his agent, he should have been playing first team for three years now, Kear and Agar failed him.

I agree except for the Kear part. That was very early in his career...Agar failed him and I still think that lad will be an international one day

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:56 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

No alarm bells ringing here. Our chairman knows our spending limits and is ruling the books with an iron fist.

Bradford on the other hand...

29 players and seven props! Hopefully we'll have the greater quality rather than this quantity as WTW have already stated it'll be a smaller squad.

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:15 pm  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Aye, 29 players on their roster so far.
Lots of players to keep happy.

Lot of players who have to prove they're worth their place in the team.

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:16 pm  

asmadasa wrote:

29 players and seven props! Hopefully we'll have the greater quality rather than this quantity as WTW have already stated it'll be a smaller squad.

Trouble is, are you an attractive enough club to attract that quality?

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:19 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Trouble is, are you an attractive enough club to attract that quality?

Of course we're not.
We are just a small club, not like the Mighty Bulls!

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:20 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Lot of players who have to prove they're worth their place in the team.

And to keep paying them!

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:23 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

The thing is, if you've been outbid on a player by a championship club with all that entails (lower cap, lower league) then surely that's not a good thing for your club.

I think you're looking at this from the wrong perspective personally. I understand your point, but I'd be concerned if my recently relegated club, who have previously gone pop and have form for burying their head in the sand and not learning from past financial mistakes we're offering bigger contracts than SL club(s). That would set alarm bells ringing for me.

Re: Walshaw : Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:37 pm  

steadygetyerboots-on wrote:

I think you're looking at this from the wrong perspective personally. I understand your point, but I'd be concerned if my recently relegated club, who have previously gone pop and have form for burying their head in the sand and not learning from past financial mistakes we're offering bigger contracts than SL club(s). That would set alarm bells ringing for me.

But we've got less salary cap to play with and we've already signed 29 players and are still in the market for a scrum half. That works out an average of £33k per player. At the moment, the average salary of a Super League player is about £60k.