Some salary cap info here: www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ampionship

Some salary cap info here: www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ampionship

I wish it was all a bit clearer but, increasingly, it seems that all the talk of narrowing the gap between the bottom of SL and the top of the Championship is mostly hot air. I guess we'll lose a few.

Quote ="BroncOnIon"Some salary cap info here: www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ampionship'" Aston is spot on. Fans should stop deluding themselves with statements like ''when we go down we can regroup and rebuild from the bottom''??? We will stay on the bottom if our benefactor continues with us (which i doubt) until the fans realise P&R is in reality a fantasy and don't bother with these 'playoff' games farces and sky refuse to show the blow out matches in empty stadiums.

Quote ="BroncOnIon"Some salary cap info here: www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ampionship'" Aston is spot on. Fans should stop deluding themselves with statements like ''when we go down we can regroup and rebuild from the bottom''??? We will stay on the bottom if our benefactor continues with us (which i doubt) until the fans realise P&R is in reality a fantasy and don't bother with these 'playoff' games farces and sky refuse to show the blow out matches in empty stadiums.

Agreed.

The RFL look like they are paying lip service to P+R.

The season after our parachute payment, I can't see us turning over more than the expansion clubs in C1.

The players will go where they can get the best deal. DH consigned the team to relegation with his procrastination so effectively everyone is on a one year contract.

Joe Grima: "If he(Caton-Brown) plays like that every week it will be hard to hold on to him.
But we will fight tooth and now to keep him. I would like to think we can hold on to a lot of these guys".

Perhaps he can explain how to the rest of us!?

I assume Grima means by [unot[/u getting relegated.

Thanks for the link, Aston is very right.
We can't expect freebies forever from the rfl and the way the club has been managed they don't deserve a place in super league.
The game down here can survive without us in the super league and it's unlikely that after going down we will go straight back up as that mini league at the end of the season is biased towards the sl clubs.
Hopefully we keep producing more talent down here and they choose to stay with us as we should be quite successful in the championship, but as was mentioned before, these players are humans after all and will go somewhere with a better offer and you can't blame them for that.

The answer is no to the question.
Wallace is a below par prop who is only playing because Rea wouldn't contract
Mooney or Cox, who were the next crop of props .,apparently due to budget restrictions.Who were considered the best of the academy league props.Wallace is still on an academy contract so is of no cost to the first team.(feel sorry for him)
Shaun Keen was the future hooker coached for the role, he's gone to union..(you work it out).
Joe Keyes should take an offer if a full time contract, may stay if a northern club doesn't come on for him.
As for Erjon,Olsie etc they'll do well to go.
Mike M is the pick of the bunch I dare say Saints will snatch him.
Mason will go as will Dixon.
So...

Are you related to Cox or Mooney??

No just a keen supporter who has watched the academy for the past 5 years. I forgot to mention Macani who will no doubt be snapped up. Just don't forget the club ditched off the next crop. Druce,mooney,cox,keen,little etc. Is that better?
The above mentioned was just an example.
I could go on but what is to be gained?
Or would you rather a rose colour tint to it all?

So if or when we go down of course the talent will try and go elsewhere, but bradford will have the same problem. You are tgen in the situation with only 12 top flight clubs trawling the quality up, so in effect their are less job, so not all will go.
its what happens with oromotion and relegation, the team that gets promotednext year if anyone does, thenthey most likely inherit the quality players from the team that go down! Its not just a problem we face

No disrespect to any of them players but where are they now??

If they were that good surely they'd be in Super League?

If you're saying they won't get offers, I'd disagree with you on that. I like them both, play with a lot of heart and give it 100% every time. No they won't be the big name stars, but I think plenty of clubs would be happy to have them in their pack.

I've been quite happy with Jon Wallace as it goes, although I haven't seen a lot of the U19s.

Koukash wants to get his grubby little paws on Caton-Brown


Source: The Sun

I'd be surprised if we can keep MCB, Dixon and one or two others but we should certainly be looking for good £££ and Koukash seems willing to spend it.

I still expect us to have the makings of a strong Championship side for next year.

Keyes, Burnett and Everett re-signed. Keyes has plenty of hype to live up to.

Looking good IMO.

Trouble is, most if not all players contracts will probably be void if relegated. Most players contracts will do this to enable them to have options. Most Clubs will just wait until those contracts are void before offering contracts to any players they may be interested in. Therefore avoiding any money output.

Not fair, but the way of the world. As a Salford fan I've spent many years watching other Clubs do this to us, so I feel for you guys.

Georgiebrown - you may have been watching the academy for 5years but you clearly can't see talent if you think Jon Wallace is average. He has the potential to be a very good forward. Mooney was always going to university to further his education, cox has the attributes but not sure his body would hold out and keen doesn't have the skill leave yet to be a super league player. All three would be good championship players and need further time to develop.

By selling some we can keep the others!

I am actually looking forward to 2015 more than I have looked forward to any season for years.

We have a very good, ambitious coach and, even if we allow for the loss of MCB and Dixon, we have some quality young players in the likes of JWH, Keyes, Bishay, Macani, Lovell, McMeeken, Wallace, Wicks and our Albanian front rowers. All these lads will better for their SL experience and they will all improve under Grima. Get 3 old heads on board (would love to keep Cook!) and unite the Griffin brothers and I would reckon we'll be as strong as Leigh.

I would also be surprised if we lost (m)any fans in dropping down. Let's face it, we're left with core now. Indeed, a competitive team might some new speccies and the welcome return of some old ones.

Keep the re-signings coming Broncos! Would love to see some of the names above commit for 2015!

Very much agree with this, I think we're probably at rock bottom with our supporter numbers - the only way is up!
Hopefully a few old bruisers will become available sign to beef up our pack.

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