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  1. Even more interestingly Man Utd have come out and said that the next manager will be told to win the Premier League in their first season. No pressure then.
  2. The papers are full of it being a Glazer decision, debts have to be serviced and the share price is falling.
  3. It's funny to hear Keene telling players that they should be ashamed of themselves for disloyalty towards their coach. Though tbf to him there was a perfect opportunity for a pop at Alex and he didn't take it.
  4. It depends on how competitive the middle 8 is. If, as many suspect, the bottom 4 SL sides are going to be far too strong for the KPC sides then it's going to be a farce.
  5. Who are these mythical people having a go at teams like Gloucester? I come across this very rarely and those few people who do this claim to be expansionists; at least they certainly think that Celtic Crusaders is a good model to follow.
  6. Football is not a subset of logic. Who cares whether it is logical or not? It just means better games. There is hardly a league anywhere in the world that hasn't adopted the Jimmy Hill 3 point for a win, 1 point for a draw. It works.
  7. Hill is like Ron Atkinson. Men who were surprisingly astute when young or middle aged but this somehow went badly awry in later life.
  8. Yes, I do. And we had 3 points for a win in the 1980s in England. We invented it.
  9. Indeed. What seems to have been forgotten is that we have seen three new stadiums in SL: the Halliwell Jones, the Barton Stadium, Langtree Park and even below SL Leigh Sports Village. Major improvements have taken place at Craven Park as well. None of which was ever going to happen when clubs were spending 95% of the income on player wages.
  10. It's not more than half the league. More than half the current league have never gone bust - Wigan, Leeds, Hull FC, Hull KR, St Helens, Wire, Catalans, Cas, Salford - that's 9 out of 14 clubs. And Crusaders were going bust even when they were breaking the NL2 and NL1 salary caps. The cap worked better when there was a maximum spend so that clubs that could not afford the full cap couldn't bankrupt themselves. When it was removed things got less stable.
  11. Nah, the salary cap has worked well when it was properly applied. We've had crowds doubling since the beginning of SL and that means more money all round. Anyone who seriously thinks that the salary cap was the cause of Paris or Crusaders demise needs to read up a bit. Those clubs were doomed no matter what. Dropping expansion clubs with insufficient funds into SL and then expecting the Salary cap to save them is stupid. It's also given clubs like Warrington and Huddersfield a new lease of life. For years they could not beat St Helens and Bradford respectively, now look where they are. See what a lack of salary cap has done to soccer. The problems are:- a) too many teams in SL reducing the TV money for everybody putting expansion sides into Sl when they weren't ready c) a failure to relegate clubs that are obviously struggling
  12. If the management are already doing so and nobody has any issues with the way that it is done, what would be the point?
  13. That's because your surveys are done at the request of the company you work for. Had the RFL or the individual clubs done them themselves then the results would probably have been treated in a similar fashion. If the survey had been done by a trade union, I'm guessing that the management would find the results in the local trade paper.
  14. No, not at all but the magazine headline is unnecessarily sensationalist. I welcome the fact that rugby league journalism is treated as more than just copy / pasting an RFL press release, sharing a few anecdotes and if there are a few inches to spare have a pop at the rah-rahs. The RFL should held to account for its decisions. But I think RLW got this one wrong.
  15. I wouldn't look too deeply into the motives of the players. They were asked questions so they answered them. No need to analyse it deeper than that. The motives of 1eagu3 in carrying out the survey and releasing its contents now and the motives of RLW in headlining it the way that they did are completely separate issues.
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