I would assume it's the same budget that we started the season with though? I would expect that our wage bill has decreased with the departures of McNally and Chisholm. Yes I know we've brought in Roche and Brown but they will surely be on considerably less. I still can't believe we didn't make a bid for Liam Finn, he wouldn't of cost the earth and would of provided some of the game management and kicking skills we badly lack.

By all accounts Fax lost up front to Batley last week and as a result Murrell had no time on the ball. We gave him far too much time yesterday and he made us pay on a few occasions. I think a lot came down to a lack of experience and a lack of ability. When playing Fax you know that Murrell will be getting the ball on the 5th tackle so you ought to have a plan to pressure him. It’s not rocket science.

When he ran the ball in and created the try near the sticks he was running straight and had two support runners. Basic but effective. Certainly much more so than Lilley’s repeated scurrying toward the touchline. Whether that was down to our lack of go forward, lack of support play or just some odd idea of what might unlock a defence I don’t know.

One thing I would do for the Batley game is bring Bustin back in. He may be short of match fitness but we need to freshen things up and he takes a lot of tackling. He has faults in his game but doesn’t everyone?

I have watched Dewsbury as a neutral a few times this year. He's nowhere near where he was. Weight has been gained and there is no sign of game management or kicking skills either.

That said - he will likely turn it on when we play them!

Bradford are paying some good money out for players, Webster £70k, Hitchcox £70K and Chisholm £70K (before he left) Ryan is on decent money too however you have just pumped your money into Lilley.

Bradford have 4th highest spend in the Championship behind Toulouse, Toronto & Widnes.

Are those figures based on something concrete or just what you think they're on?

These guys were on the open transfer market at the end of last year and Bradford were a good fit for them being Yorkshire based. I haven't seen their wage slips if that's what you're asking.

All clubs are being put off Brierley's 6 figure a year deal at Toronto.

Unless we've started renewing contracts of players we want to keep, but haven't publicised it yet.

Sorry but you are completely wrong

And that's on one of the lowest central funding allocations in the championship. If we get a decent uplift in funding for next year, depending on who comes down, we may be able to get spend up to 3rd highest in championship and can push for promotion. No boom or bust here anymore. We can slowly increase the size of our cloth.....

Well I guess you are closer to the heart of things, Roger, and therefore more likely to know

But how wrong can he be (given that he's likely guessing..)?

Toronto obviously the big spenders, then Toulouse and Widnes - yeah, I can see that. Who amongst the rest would be spending more than us? Featherstone maybe? Leigh? Doubtful...

I think you can knock nearly 50% off those supposed top salaries at the club.30k to 40k max.two lads in the 1st team on 10k and some reserve contracts at 3k a year or even pay as you play.average full time about 20k to 25k plus bonuses.1st team part timers 10k to 20k plus win bonus would be my best guess

All I've got to go on is that Batley's total squad spend is about £200k and Diskin claimed before our game early in the season we were spending about 3x that and should therefore win. So total squad spend of about £600k then.

Then we need to define squad!?!
First 25 players - like in SL?
Every player on the books?
Academy/Scholars would not count I would assume?

I will take your word for it as I haven't seen him play recently.

No idea what the total spend on salaries is or who we are spending more than, guess we will be in top 3 but it’s more the individual salaries he was quoting that I know, is definitely the case

Having watched the highlights we were hard done to by the ref.

Tangata’s card was the wrong colour. Late shoulder contact with the head is the behaviour of a pussy ‘ole.

That wasn’t an 8 point try is Webster not supposed to go up for the ball then? Garbage call that also the final pass to Grix from QLTwas forward.

Don’t think that nail you’ve just hit on head could be easier to hammer

Are you on drugs?

I can see why he gave an 8pt try. Whilst giving Webster the benefit of the doubt the way he brings him to ground is dangerous after competing for the ball. You can’t touch a player in the air after he has caught the ball yet alone bring him to ground horizontally

You’ve been drinking too many crappy unfined beers again. It’s there on the screen and it’s why tangata has been cited. Also if the disciplinary have found that the “biting” incident didn’t actually happen then Fleming should be cited for making such an accusation.

Are you on drugs?

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Nope just fishing for bites from gormless Halifax fans.

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What a well thought out response, how long did that take you?

At least your one dimensional barge-over specialist took the defeat well.

All class.

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I'm a gormless Halifax fan what more did you expect