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Useless RFL and IMG....oh wait..

Its a nicely timed counterpoint to show that the exact same thing happens in many other sports, its pretty much part of the vast majority of pro and semi pro competitions.

Yes.

Town win 18-30, excellent victory.

You cant even afford to pay the players you currently have let alone sign more

Good lord that was dumb.

Bagsy being the granny in the car....

Yeah I get that, and your obviously right. But I do also think there was more "spare" cash to divvy up then as clubs were run on much less costs. Either way lower league clubs are going to have to change the way they are run going forward, but it's not impossible to do so.

I still don't see the unnatural, unacceptable or however you want yo describe it, he's absolutely not led with the knee, it's just part of his completely natural body position for a tackle like that. I get that you maybe cant claim an accident as mitigation at times, but accidents on a pitch do and will happen, its just the nature of the game. It opens up a can of worms for me, will the Disciplinary now be expected to rule on all accidental contact, or just ones leading to injuries?

I'm wondering how much the impact of Sam Burgess is a receny thing. Every player in the squad will have seen him play, will know about his attitude and will to win so is it likely to be easier for him to gain buy in from players who will have huge respect due to him only retiring from playing at the very top a few years ago?

To be fair it was combined with much lower running costs to enable clubs to be sustainable, there's a huge amount if oncosts for sports clubs now that didn't exist a few decades ago, or weren't as costly at best.

I don't think anyone is questioning him being talented, just the hyperbole around him being a generational talent. He is a loss to his club and possibly national team, not really the sport, no player is ever big enough for that in my opinion.

Yeah. You would never get snide digs in would you....hypocrite.

Ridiculous to even put him in the same conversation as those 3, though not surprising given who it was.