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The clue is in her name.

He had the Griffin Hotel on Standishgate quite close to Central Park. Sadly now a crumbling wreck after the last owners destroyed it by trying to turn it into some open plan trendy bar.

Just watched the Leeds v Saints game and the way supporters responded to the images being shown at the ground is what defines this game. All rivalry put to one side for a great moment. We know when to put down the sword and show respect to great people of the game. Then it's back to battle.

You do realise what saying this means about your thoughts on the game and ref.

Powell goes to default setting "refs fault".

No it isn't he can go to club B if they think he is worth it. I may think I am worth £1m/year, doesn't mean anyone will pay it, but I can tout myself around various companies to see if there any takers.

If as a player I believe I believe I am worth £150,000/year and club A won't pay me that because they have no room within their wage bill I can go to club B and they pay me want I want, my salary has not been capped, I just had to move around to get what I believe I am worth. That is how it works, the problem is clubs X,Y and Z who are lazy and sulk when they can't afford the £150,000 for said player so rely on cut price cast offs from clubs A,B,C. The end.

Overall club wage bill, not an individual's salary. no player is worth paying the full cap for (economics says so). If a club chooses to pay 3/4 of their cap allowance on one player than they have to decide who gets the remaining quarter. I get your point that is a way of limiting wages but it is not a cap on an individual's salary, unless you believe a player is worth £2.1m. The soccer post war maximum players wage was a proper salary cap.

A player can always be payed what a club thinks the player is worth. They then have to decide what value they place on the players around him. A salary cap is not a cap on an individual player.

A second rate Aussie wil be far more knowledgeable about the sport that than a third rate Yorkshire backward thinking neanderthal (player not you). If the next announcement is to expand to a 14 team SL (which I suspect) then the only way to aid (not ensure) that the competition is viable as a tv spectator sport is to have players that can compete at that level. Tell me why have Wakefield not been churning out SL standard players to the extent that they have to offload them as they have too many. If they and others were doing it then we would not need any imports to bolster the competition. Produce quality players and you have no need to import anybody. Lazy clubs, who have always been lazy, relying on other clubs cast offs will be the ones tempted to go for this. Get on the back of your own club for doing FA for 50 years.

An international transfer ban worked really well in the 1970's, resulted in the 1982 touring side showing us how far we had fallen out of touch with what progressive RL was about. We closed the gap but never caught up when the ban was rescinded and realised how far we were behind. We need more cross fertilization with Oz not less.

The RFL always gets dragged back by a bunch of clubs who believe they are the future but have never progressed in 130 years. It is not an RFL problem, it is a club problem.

Their ego does though.

McGuire joins a long list of great players who presume they will be great coaches because they have always known best. Once he was under pressure and started blaming the ref he was done for.