Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:15 am  

As a counter are London / Bradford any worse than the like of the awful Huddersfield, leigh and Halifax teams of the past?

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:01 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

Its quite possible to be concerned over the game that you have followed all of your life and so to air those views in public.

Problem is, some just don't want to listen or have no response so prefer the fingers in the ear and hum loudly approach.

Quite true and, in your case in particular, views are validated by reasoned argument and constructive suggestions on how matters may be improved. It seems to me that if someone continues to make the same criticisms and never put forward a sensible solution to the problems they perceive, then that person shouldn't be surprised when they get dismissed as appearing to be a "sado, pleasuring themselves over back copies of the Australian Rugby League Week in a darkened room". For the avoidance of doubt, the speech marks are not a reference to a previous quotation, I put them there for effect.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:36 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Unless my reading is amiss you posted "Go follow another sport then"!! how can you deny that?

Because before you added "if you don't love what is on the field".....never wrote that at all.

Sal Paradise wrote:

William loves this sport more than most and I would suggest he supports the sport at all levels far more than some one team supporters who can't see beyond what is happening at Headingley hence his posts of concern. The fact that you cannot see that suggests your ability to understand simple posts are questionable?

You have been to the last four games Leeds have played - in your view is that the standard the League should be offering? Its an embarrassment to elite level RL. You,it would appear, unlike William are only interested one club and not the game as a whole.

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Again waffling on about me apparently denying anything is wrong with the sport.....

Please quote where I've said this.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:42 am  

Totally agree Eagle which imo shows we need fewer teams and reduced play off numbers.
Hopefully a 12 team league will prove to be better but i disagree with the 3 x 8 format I'd go with top 5/6 and 1 up 1 down.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:48 am  

Juan Cornetto wrote:

So "safe in this knowledge" you predicted Leeds to finish in 7th place at the start of the season! .........at least your judgement is consistant..

Unlike some I do not take some things too seriously. Predicting finishing positions in the league is surely no more than a bit of fun.
At the time I was trying to display my disappointment in the club's apparent lack of ambition in making well considered new recruitment ( unlike say Saint Helens - Salford have shown how not to do it by contrast ). Obviously the club realised there was simply no reason to recruit. The degenerating old pack and first choice pedestrian half backs are still sufficiently competitive in the equally degenerating overall standards of the present league.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:10 am  

We probably have a player pool to sustain an 8 team top division. But (and I have no access to the books to assess this, so it's a question) could we keep generating enough revenue with so few games?

Maybe we should have been more radical, and siphoned off a chunk of the new TV deal money to run 3 or 4 big regional elite academies and run a NFL-style draft system for the resulting talent.

I'm not sure whether thats a serious suggestion or not.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:17 am  

ThePrinter wrote:

Because before you added "if you don't love what is on the field".....never wrote that at all.

Again waffling on about me apparently denying anything is wrong with the sport.....

Please quote where I've said this.[/quote]

Little point when you will not even admit to stuff you actually posted - your blindness is duly noted

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:37 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Little point when you will not even admit to stuff you actually posted - your blindness is duly noted

I did write "Go follow another sport then"

I however, did not write this....

"Go follow another sport then if you don't love what's on the field"

........Now where are these quotes of me saying the sport is in amazing health and thinking all is rosy?

Please share otherwise we'll all see that you made all that up in your head in poor agenda driven desperation and now look foolish.

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:08 am  

The Eagle wrote:

Love him or hate him the likes of Koukash coming in and wanting to change things a bit is what the game needs. He's at least trying to take a traditional also ran team and make them better.

He is. But does his model really differ much from what was done at Bradford in the 90s and early 2000s?

Re: Our Defence : Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:22 am  

Clearwing wrote:

He is. But does his model really differ much from what was done at Bradford in the 90s and early 2000s?

Or what Wigan were doing prior to imploding financially and having to sell their home to clear their debts?

Individuals with large sums of cash coming in can only ever be a short term fix, unless they address the underlying issues at their club to make it into a viable business. Koukash seems to have no interest in making Salford self-sustaining, just on paying over the odds for big name players.