Robin Evans Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Toulouse in with a big budget. Leigh in with another season courtesy of delbert.... they won't go up. London improving.... Going to make top 4 a really big ask... So then.... shopping list..... "I love our club, absolutely love it". (Overton, M 2007) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeymagic22 Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I think Leigh will do it, if they beat either Huddersfield or Hull KR, it will be automatic as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I think Leigh have a good shot of going up this year too. Sharp has already said he'd only expect about "half a dozen changes, at most" to the squad. This makes sense; it's hard to think of too many from this season's squad that we, or JS, would definitely want to see the back of. The other thing about the squad this year is that it doesn't really have many "stars", it's been more about team ethic than individual brilliance this year. I'd presume Sharp will be loooking for more of the same. So I'd be surprised if there were any fancy-dan, big-name, big-contract players. A lot of fans were a bit underwhelmed by his first crop of signings when announced last year, but most of them have worked out pretty well, whereas we got very giddy by all the Aussies etc the year before but things didn't turn out as we'd hoped. We're not in a position to do what Beaumont has done and systematically replace most of our players with recruits from SL or the NRL, so I guess we'll just try and add a bit of quality and depth here and there where we need it. Not sure what the lie of the land is with regards to DR continuing next year but I'd imagine some sort of continuation of our relationship with Leeds as it's worked well this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeymagic22 Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I'd be happy with Knowles from Sheffield, if the rumours are true. Quality player at Championship level. We need to be realistic in so much that the goal again next season is top 4 rather than promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Pike Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I cant see us keeping Duckworth when his loan period ends at the end of ghis season as he isnt up to championship standard .In all my time of watching the game I cant remember seeing a player make an embarrassing mistake like he did on sunday of tapping the ball and throwing it straight away to the opposition.Anyway that said Im happy with the pack but the centres and definately the wingers need strengthening but I cant think of anyone in the championship of being an outstanding winger?.What I would do is try to get some young super League players with potential that are getting off loaded due to the clubs reducing their salary cap to bring in star players.I agree with a few of you with the thought of buying championship players with the only result of staying in the championship .We need to kick on and improve to the next level but none of us know what spare money the club have for buying players so we will have to sit and hope JS keeps up the good work and improve us which i am sure he will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 You'd think Briscoe would be the logical signing to take one wing spot with Turner to return on the other, Briscoe has been solid, has obvious local ties and only signed for Leeds until the end of the season because of their injury crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 As an aside, I've seen four separate posts on various forums of other clubs in the last couple of weeks from fans moaning about different individual players who played for us last year. That adds weight to the suggestion that Sharp isn't a bad judge of who he wants at the club, and who he doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fevrob Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 If the ormandroyd to Leeds rumour is true what does anyone think about a Baldwinson permanent deal as he is already a Fev "legend" with the possibility of getting Jack back regularly on dual reg. Personally I'd be happy with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOWFIELD Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 If the ormandroyd to Leeds rumour is true what does anyone think about a Baldwinson permanent deal as he is already a Fev "legend" with the possibility of getting Jack back regularly on dual reg. Personally I'd be happy with that Fev Legend ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen T-k Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 If the ormandroyd to Leeds rumour is true what does anyone think about a Baldwinson permanent deal as he is already a Fev "legend" with the possibility of getting Jack back regularly on dual reg. Personally I'd be happy with that I think the word more apt is "Fev favourite" Im Fev and im proud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fevrob Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 I think the word more apt is "Fev favourite"I was just going by how the Leeds lads refer to him in the interview before the rhinos match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elppaxr2i Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Think the Leeds lads said that in tongue in cheek - dont think they meant it as a serious statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham fisher Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 What about Kyle Trout & Dale Morton from us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fevrob Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Think the Leeds lads said that in tongue in cheek - dont think they meant it as a serious statementHence "legend" in inverted commas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blues Ox Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Starting to think Leigh will make it as well, the only problem for us is that it is likely to be at the expense of Salford and with Koukash no intention of walking away it brings a team in to the league with even more spending power than Leigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Slater Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Starting to think Leigh will make it as well, the only problem for us is that it is likely to be at the expense of Salford and with Koukash no intention of walking away it brings a team in to the league with even more spending power than Leigh.More money than sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Pike Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Starting to think Leigh will make it as well, the only problem for us is that it is likely to be at the expense of Salford and with Koukash no intention of walking away it brings a team in to the league with even more spending power than Leigh. Its been reported that Koukash is walking away whether they are in super league or not at the end of the year and is leaving the club in the ownership of possibly supporters so theyll be skint like the rest of us . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painkiller Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Apparantly mrs koukash is interested in the bulls again ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Slater Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 It defies all logic that moneybags Salford are in real danger of relegation while hard up Wakey finished in the top eight, and have staved off relegation or the refusal of a licence for 18 years. I can't understand how sceptics can say a present Championship club couldn't hold their own in SL when Wakey have been doing a Fev for all this time. The hardest part is getting there, and IMO the only way a club like Fev or Fax could do it was to keep finishing in the top 4 until they have no debt, finish 6th to win the £700K then hold a large slice of it back from the wage bill. Then make sure you look certain to finish in the top 4 again and use that money that was held back to strengthen for the qualifiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Pike Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 As premiership and some championship football teams get taken over by massively rich buisiness families from the far East or russia for e.g who pump in hundreds of millions of pounds into their respective clubs as mainly an interest and not expecting to make a large profit it gets me to think why isnt there just one to come into our game lets say Wigan or Saints and do something similar is there absence down to them seing our sport as a backward sport played by mainly northerners or is it how the game is goverened by the powers that be that puts them off because surely the product on the pitch is in my eyes the greatest game??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 As premiership and some championship football teams get taken over by massively rich buisiness families from the far East or russia for e.g who pump in hundreds of millions of pounds into their respective clubs as mainly an interest and not expecting to make a large profit it gets me to think why isnt there just one to come into our game lets say Wigan or Saints and do something similar is there absence down to them seing our sport as a backward sport played by mainly northerners or is it how the game is goverened by the powers that be that puts them off because surely the product on the pitch is in my eyes the greatest game??? It depends what you class as "massively rich". At the time he started to get involved with Salford, Marwan Koukash had over 100 horses in training. That would have cost him well over £2m in training fees alone annually, before the purchase price. His well-publicised issue is the RFL not letting him spend all the money he wanted to because of the salary cap. Also, the other obvious point is that Premier League football is broadcast in "212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people" (thank you Wikipedia), which certainly isn't the case with SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggy's mate Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 broadcast in "212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people" (thank you Wikipedia), which certainly isn't the case with SL. Yet Touch Rugby W(h)inger and part-time Super Hero (Thursday mornings by appointment) BATLEY BULLDOGS RLFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Horseman Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Yet "This time next year, Rodney..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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