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paul hicks

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  1. how many of them in Wakefield instead go to elland road and watch leeds utd or indeed play cricket on a sunday
  2. London and midland broncos. come on neither are in the heartlands so the catchment area is anything down there
  3. given the so far 54 pages of complaints and proposals that IMG would laugh at just as hard as mine i can't see a problem. well i can but i suspect mass murder is not to be encouraged
  4. was just a thought. perhaps they could combine there IMG points on the back of it. if London and midlands hurricanes merged could the not combine there grading points and get into the top 12. got to be worth a try. ah just a flight of fancy but no dafter than a number of posts on the thread. just not as desperate
  5. its easy to improve the catchment score. just merge with any other team in the same catchment area
  6. fine so you put the money into the club account for a year and leave it there. then after a year you take it back out again. still a bit of a con you could do
  7. 28 teams. the idea is you play each opponent once and rotate the home and away fixtures against each club each season. you don't get tired of seeing the same clubs all the time and you spread the game. yes, you would need a lot of investment. there would be blowout scores at times but don't we already have a lot of blowout scores in super league already. the remaining clubs could be in a development league which could increase over time.
  8. but in reality, its just keeping a club going by pushing more money in rather than rather than running a business that can stand on its own two feet without external investment. is there not a section where you get points for been self-sufficient and not needing more external money pumping in as that would show a sound profitable business and surely should be rewarded. instead, you reward business for needing more external money because it can't increase its internal profitability through good business management.
  9. so really, it's a con you just rest a bit of money in the club accounts but lay it aside not to use . it's also a waste of money if it's not earning. could you just put it in say this month and then take it out next month and claim it was a short-term investment
  10. interesting although i did not realise points were awarded for increase in owner investment. in this case it looks strange because the owner does not need to increase investment. what on earth would Leeds spend the extra investment on that they cant manage to do now
  11. as many as can be afforded to give a reasonable amount of money to each team. if you spread the money to thin then it will result in teams going bust trying to keep up with some clubs who are better funded. so really it depends what the deals with media and sponsors are.
  12. if i may put it this way. I'm looking at this thread but not complaining and i can't be bothered to look at the BBC or other sites as im happy enough with the results. ah well time for a cuppa and more watching people trying to wring blood out of there club scarfs
  13. nope the pennine league is a winter league so could not enter without first moving to a summer comp. nice try though and i recon a couple of those teams could do better than a couple of league teams
  14. no more than for Bradford fans chanting racist stuff about a section of the Leeds fans i would presume
  15. no the grading table which is all that matters stays as it is now Toulouse and Wakefield would be promoted and Castleford and London would be relegated regardless of position of any of the teams in the leagues. of course, clubs will be trying to get more grading points to improve their own position but if say castleford finish 10th but do not improve their grade they would go down. really, it's the top 12 teams in the IMG grading that will be in super league in 2025 regardless of their league or position in that league
  16. so part of the redevelopment is to take old barriers from the princess street stand that's already a sorry state and put them into the Weldon Road and whoopee that's a part of the job done. not looking good when you put it that way. by the time they get to spend the £2milloin what's it actually going to get with inflation biting into it every month.
  17. if Castleford got a point for every announcement on the ground, they would be 20 points in front of the rest. announcements are worth nothing it getting the job done that gets the points. so if there so called redevelopment is not complete and open by the time the next review is carried out then they should and will get nothing for it .
  18. i did but i could not understand his answer
  19. scholarship is different to academy as it covers players of different ages who still play for their own junior teams but get coaching and other benefits from the super league team as well as playing a limited number of games for the scholarship team. in effect for the u15s you would need to bring in a whole new squad each year as well as a few more players in the u16s ect
  20. of course, it will not change . its the same in all sports just look at soccer
  21. indeed but lets face it half of them cant afford it
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