How can 2 clubs, Halifax, reportedly £900,000 in debt and Featherstone also in debt and reported to have received a winding up order, be involved in the play offs?
Widnes could have gone down that road again and spent money we didn’t have to buy lots of top players, to get us into the playoffs and possibly into SL, but if we didn’t we would be bankrupt again.
Yet these 2 clubs seem to have been able to do this. I thought that after the last time this happened, the RL said it would be monitoring clubs books each month, to make sure it didn’t happen again.
It would seem like a waste of money as you can't get promoted by winning the GF. Finance is taken into consideration. Obviously with Salford it wasn't done properly. But with the embarrasment caused to the RFL by the situation i can see them clamping down on it. No real benefit now is living beyond your means. Hence the need for a rich backer to bank roll the club in to SL as per Leigh and Wakey. York seem to have plenty of money as well.
Widnes could have won more home games than four and got themselves into the play offs.We shouldn't complain about other clubs just because our own failed. We're talking second division rugby here,you don't have to be Real Madrid wealthy to scrape 6th place in division two.
@sinbad So you agree with clubs overspending and going into debt to try and get success ?
He never said that he told it as it is, we bolloxed up yet again.@sinbad So you agree with clubs overspending and going into debt to try and get success ?
I agree we messed up in some games we should have won that would have got us in the playoffs
But I also think it’s wrong that clubs are allowed to get into massive debts , and are allowed to carry on competing to the end of the season.
People get into massive debt when they take out a mortgage on a house. If they lose their jobs, or spend elsewhere then they'll probably lose the house. It's not much different. All folk (and Clubs) do things differently.
Paulie xx
Halifax hammered Oldham and Featherstone are out to Bradford....
A lot of clubs at both levels are in debt, it's very common. I don't have a massive problem with it if they can afford to repay the debt and they are not breaking the salary cap. Long term it isn't necessarily sustainable so they are running a risk of their own accord.
Don't like the bloke but Wilkin said it on TV last night - 'Why did the RFL give Salford £500,000 before the season started?' Their finances should have been checked then!!!
Players signing for clubs bidding for SL might regret not waiting to see how it all pans, out even for successful promotion prospects, if they only get a few crumbs rather than a real SL allocation!
Don't like the bloke but Wilkin said it on TV last night - 'Why did the RFL give Salford £500,000 before the season started?' Their finances should have been checked then!!!
1) Players signing for clubs bidding for SL might regret not waiting to see how it all pans, out even for successful promotion prospects, if they only get a few crumbs rather than a real SL allocation!
1) Asked this before on another thread, but it's worth repeating here, with................
Even though the announcement of who's got the nod is still a month hence, do those who are heading to the Promised Land already know?
Could players have signed contracts with a "Say nowt until it's official." clause written into it?
I'm still sticking with my second prediction (I changed my mind after the Lockyer intervention) of York, London, and (regretfully in my opinion) a team where a certain Mr Wood has recent history, with Toulouse missing out.
So, I ask again, has the decision been already made, and the powers-that-be at the successful applicants, are currently quietly smiling to themselves?
Cynical moi?
Spelly.
You may be cynical, Spelly, but I think you are correct.
Look we lost out because we could not beat a team with 11 men and played absolute crap in some games - we played great in others.
it was our playing standard( or sometimes lack of) that made us miss the playoffs
i think as others have said York have been told on the sly they are in , but they deserve it
i also think Toulouse are in on IMG gradings - no word from them yet
salfraud are down and out, shuuds just as near
so it comes down to the ‘independent panel’ to decide
so it will be bradfraud and Fulham I reckon
At the end of the day whoever is promoted to SL will have to face up, recruit and play their games.
They may well be short changed and have to find more generous backers or re run the Salford saga. We certainly don't need that in our club ever again.
In an odd way it might be fun to see Yorkies stitching up Yorkies but it could be another demonstration of how not to run a sport. One thing for sure is that if that happened Nige would need another wheelbarrow for his take-home pay!!!
That would sicken me when you think of the greats who have graced our game.
To any betting folk out there….what odds on Salford having a better squad than us next year?