My point wasn't really about Sykes but that Langley might not be the only person in the squad (or even past players now at other clubs) that we could use the £50k subsidy on.

IIRC the 50k is only applicable to players with 10 years continuous service to the club. I think Kopczak might actually be the next who this would apply to.

Lynch? He's on 7 years I think.

Correct. think kopczak is probably just ahead of lynch in line to receive it due to his time in academy, though not 100% sure.

Kopz told us at the last game of the season he is contracted until 2012 and that final year will be his 10th at the club and subsequently his testimonial year

He is now a ''average joe'' he started off pretty well had buckets of potential, sadly never materialised. Injuries have sadly taken toll.

Bulls4champions2010 here we are. This is what you are defending by saying that statistics are irrelevant. if bullsfab had spent 10 seconds to look at the number of games Jamie has played over the last three years, and the number of tackles and his missed tackle % of total tackles, he would not have wasted everybodies time with such a crass comment. Nothing is black and white, so he is not totally wrong, but its analysis of the stats that show the truth. This season yes, the data shows that the persistent injuries (or is it one injury and he has put an unfit body on the pitch and on the line for the team) he has had have affected his performance on the pitch as well, but it is still pretty good performance compared to a number of other players. Last season and the season before, sorry, Bullsfab is talking nonsense. Or is my interpretation of the data wrong?

Yet I haven't actually defended anybody or anything. FWIW, I actually really like Langley and don't need statistics to tell me he's a good player or worthy of his place in the side.

I'm not really sure what you are getting at, and to be honest, I don't think you are.