#1
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:22
It can buy you beer and that's a bit like happiness in a glass!
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#2
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:30
I expect he will go well and enjoy changing the docks of Hull for the surf beaches of the Shire!
#3
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:32
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#4
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:37
#5
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:51
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#6
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:53
#7
Posté 06 février 2013 - 04:54
With Tomkins potentially going over in the next couple of years, we really will have 2/3rds of a potential England team playing in the NRL..
So we get to watch the "second string" in Super League!
Time we did something about raising the SC I think - I want to see Briscoe, Tomkins etc playing here every week - not in Aus!
It can buy you beer and that's a bit like happiness in a glass!
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Sir Winston Churchill
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise!
Tobias Smollett
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
Joe E Lewis
"Look at the ffing state of that"!
My mate on the Avenue last Friday whilst pointing to a scantily clad young lady and spitting a mouthful of beer out!
#8
Posté 06 février 2013 - 05:03
So we get to watch the "second string" in Super League!
Time we did something about raising the SC I think - I want to see Briscoe, Tomkins etc playing here every week - not in Aus!
While completely agreeing with you, it is interesting how being directly affected hardens opinions. Once every team has lost a top player or 2, perhaps we'll get a consensus to increase it, or have a marquee player exemption...
#9
Posté 06 février 2013 - 05:04
So we get to watch the "second string" in Super League!
Time we did something about raising the SC I think - I want to see Briscoe, Tomkins etc playing here every week - not in Aus!
I say let the aussies pay our better players (keeping them in RL) and we develop new English/British players increasing our International player pool. Win win in my opinion.
#10
Posté 06 février 2013 - 05:20
#11
Posté 06 février 2013 - 05:43
He's chosen a fin time to join the Sharks.
Very good
It can buy you beer and that's a bit like happiness in a glass!
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Sir Winston Churchill
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise!
Tobias Smollett
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
Joe E Lewis
"Look at the ffing state of that"!
My mate on the Avenue last Friday whilst pointing to a scantily clad young lady and spitting a mouthful of beer out!
#12
Posté 06 février 2013 - 06:25
I thought he was already at the Sharks...He's chosen a fin time to join the Sharks.
(It's ok for me to say it!)
#13
Posté 06 février 2013 - 09:21
No. Enjoy the games regardless of who is playing for the teams and be glad in the knowledge that our boys are mixing it in the NRl thus improving the national sides chances
#14
Posté 06 février 2013 - 09:25
#15
Posté 06 février 2013 - 09:33
Do football fans in the Czech Republic stop going due to their league having inferior players to the EP/La Liga etc?
No. Enjoy the games regardless of who is playing for the teams and be glad in the knowledge that our boys are mixing it in the NRl thus improving the national sides chances
Would teams in the Czech Republic receive more attention if they not only contained their own world class players, but others too?
Hope he has a good time out there and it is better for England rep wise, but will the player drain ever reach a point where any big name sooner or later gets hoovered up?
#16
Posté 06 février 2013 - 09:41
I was in favour as the promise of boom & bust was made - unfortunately, it hasn't improved yet the loss of quality players to RU & NRL has increased.
Time for a rethink?
It can buy you beer and that's a bit like happiness in a glass!
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Sir Winston Churchill
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise!
Tobias Smollett
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
Joe E Lewis
"Look at the ffing state of that"!
My mate on the Avenue last Friday whilst pointing to a scantily clad young lady and spitting a mouthful of beer out!
#17
Posté 06 février 2013 - 10:51
No doubt he'll snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in a few games.
Hull should mako the best of him while he is still with them.
#18
Posté 06 février 2013 - 11:03
I say let the aussies pay our better players (keeping them in RL) and we develop new English/British players increasing our International player pool. Win win in my opinion.
Good call. Frees up salary cap at Hull to pay the next star a few more quid and keeps him in the game. More England players in the NRL = a better England team = more (some!!) international success = more income = raised salary cap = more players staying in Super League.
#19
Posté 07 février 2013 - 01:04
So we get to watch the "second string" in Super League!
Time we did something about raising the SC I think - I want to see Briscoe, Tomkins etc playing here every week - not in Aus!
No. Simply raise the cap and the top teams pull away, reducing fan and investor interest across the board.
The secret is to realign the league so that not a penny of cap space goes to waste (as at present). SL can then slowly look to raise itself to NRL levels of support and investment and potentially raise the cap then. Until then we'll have to accept a bit of a pedigree player drain to NRL, which got its house in order years ago.
We reap what we sow. We wanted a SL made up of existing (failing) sides and we can't have it both ways. NRL has 16 teams with big fan bases all capable of paying up to a huge cap. Our aim has to be to achieve that and there will be some pain in the process. It will also take many years.
If we had 14 or more teams all with good sized fan bases and investment then some of those 14 could have been in the offing to raise Tom's income without damaging the competitive balance of the league. But we don't so good luck to him in Oz.
#20
Posté 07 février 2013 - 01:09
Do you agree that the cap should now be increased annually with inflation?
At what point do we stop lowering the cap every year and either freeze it ( by linking it to inflation) or raise it slightly. The money from sky has gone up, the clubs are charging more on the gates, when can the players expect their earnings to increase with inflation?
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