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Damn it!

He was our best threequarter.

Whilst its a big loss something is clearly wrong and I admire Barry for letting folk know no matter how big the name no player can take the mickey.

Mickey is still here pete.!!!

I suppose it's the "no player is bigger than the club" cliché again.

Hopefully we can get a few quid or a decent trade for him.

Quote ="andrew aspinall"Mickey is still here pete.!!! '" Nobody would take me On the field this is a massive loss, but something must be very wrong. Here are Daley's best bits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-gv1OvvNE

Quote ="andrew aspinall"Mickey is still here pete.!!! '" Nobody would take me On the field this is a massive loss, but something must be very wrong. Here are Daley's best bits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-gv1OvvNE

Daley and George in 3 weeks,were starting to crumble and players starting to get injuries,im worried for Sunday.

I wonder if York might show some interest?

3 things I'll remember about Daley

1. That biff he dished out on Ratcliffe
2. The try he got at Dewsbury this season. There were a load of us chanting "we want 40" Daley, as if on demand, came out with one of his trademark ball steals and crossed for the try.
3. His leaping tap back whilst over the dead ball line but keeping himself in the air to set up a try in the SKY game at Bramall Lane. It was world class.

I watch the matches, two or three times and can't remember more than a couple of errors by Daley on the field this year.

The York, Sheffield, Oldham away last season, are but a few when he has been one of our best.

He is the king of ball stealing. It normally comes of to great effect

He was away for the Fev drumming.

Since then, I can't recall him giving less than 100%.

He always puts his body on the line and will score upside down if it means getting on the end of the kicks.

I'm with you Mick, I can't recall him playing badly recently.

I'm not really buying that statement from the club to be honest.

There's got to be more to it than just preparing poorly for games.

This is getting very worrying. Daley has probably been our best player this year after Danny Jones. After George Raynor and Carl Hughes seemingly in the bad-books we seem to be losing quite a few of our quality players. Is this a pre-curser to statements from the club saying "We are concentrating on youth", the way they did in 2006 and 2007, which really means "We are cutting our wage bill, and hope to stay out of the bottom 2 of Championship 1". This at the time they are asking for extra crowds dosn't seem to make much sense.

At the last fans forum it was mentioned that the club had budgeted in way that.

1) Paying fans (not including season tickets) would pay players wages and they expected 1000 would pay at the gate for every home game.
2) We would win one third of our games this season.

Part 1 we were nowhere near (about 500 IIRC) which is why they were desperately trying to attract more fans down.

Part 2 We've won 7/21 games in all competitions so far this season and realisticlly are looking at 8 or 9/27 wins for the season so around a third.

The maths doesn't look particularly good. What was mentioned was the revenues streams from elsewhere, bar sales, catering, etc was covering this shortfall.

It would therefore make sense to have a clearout at the end of the season but not now. To surrender before end of the season would only serve to alienate even more fans and be counter-productive.

Which leads me to believe regarding Daley it isn't anything to do with money, it's something else.

It has bugger all to do with finances.

You lot have no decent players,MAYBE ,Wray wouldwin a knees-up Mother Brown contest,thats,all.

Your "location" says it all

Outstanding player......are we imploding?

Wheres George when we need him?

Oh yeah thats right,we sold him

I suppose people will read all sorts into this but if it is serious and disciplinary then the club have no option. You can't bend rules for someone just because of who they are.

It's a real shame, Daley is one of our better players and looks comfortable at this level both in attack and defence.

For 4 I had spoken to Daley was our 2nd best player this season.
The one who could turn a game the way JP did many times last season.

I assume he has done something major for the club to want rid of a fans favourite.

But with Tom Sheldrake injuried we are short on Centres

Tom Burton, has potential but tackling is no Daley.
Joe Copperthwaite will be a cracking centre, a star in the reserves but tackling still needs to be brought up to match his going forward.

Unless Baz goes shopping, I think we could struggle to find a win without a new centre of class.

The season is as good as over for us now.
This will reduce the wage bill for next season.

Such a shame really, as he is one of the best players we have/had.