I meant cash-strapped in his capacity as Rovers' Chairman - we all know how fast he's been running to catch all those ambulances. Perhaps he'll do an Allam and invest some of his millions into the club he loves?

How strange. You appear to change your mind as often as you do your pointy shoes:

You were right the first time, by the way.


He's all-singing-all-dancing in that he likes to have a go at most of the jobs down at Caravan Park. And he'll be the new coach's new chairman, regardless of how long he's been at Rovers. Silly.

Are you La Café in disguise. Do I really have to explain to you that that was a tongue in cheek post? Oh, I do, how silly of you.



We know this, we've all had a laugh about it as much, if not more than you undesirables.



Awful semantic pedantry.



Quite.

Not at all. I can't help it if you don't read things correctly in the first place.

So we agree on everything else? Wonderful. It's just the pointy shoes in the "lounge", then...

Hes put plenty into our club, and i would be shocked if anyone Rovers fan or not wouldnt see that.

Jealous of a man putting money into the club he loves and wouldnt see in the gutter rather then someone who is 100% into it for himself (ala pearson)...?

'We have made signings which are entirely based on the recommendations of the coaching staff as a whole, with opinion sought from one or two senior players but I expect we will leave several slots for the new coach to fill'.

(Neil Hudgell writing in his matchday programme notes)

The majority of the newbies are young lads with something to prove!

Obviously there is plenty of opportunity for the new coach to roll his own way beit that we should be well under-cap.

Just why our B&W buddies are so animated about the new Rovers set up surprises me... or does it?

Have 100% faith in our board to deliver!!!!

100% answered your own question there!


That aside, weve brough in Hodgeson for Fox (about the same money if not less?)
O'Hara for Vella (will be on less money)
Horne for Cook (about the same money)
Taulapapa for Briscoe (will be on less money)
Griffin for Colbon (the same or more likely less money)

Followed by Charlie, Newton, Mason & fisher going, id say we have an absolutely massive ammount of the cap left for the new coach to bring in quality players.

There's not alot of OOC quality over here, and you can't have much room on the Quota/Non-Fed list to bring in players from the NRL? Plenty of cap space left though.

The only other players I've seen you linked with are Withers & Paea, are you linked with anyone else?

I thinkyou will find 2013 is the season to look at as IIRC we will only have 4 or 5 of the current squad signed up beyond next season (unless some of the kids have had their deals extended) so the new coch will have a year to look at what we have got already, what he can bring in and then make his own team for 2013.

A tad harsh - you don't even know who it is yet.

I agree, the new coach will have his eye on recruiting HIS team for 2013

Whilst it is, of course, prudent to use the word "jealous" with reference to your fanatical little chairman, your context is wrong in this sentence. "Amused by..." would be more appropriate while we are commentating on his bum over boobs approach to team building for next year.

Hope not, if Cooks rumoured wages are true

Tauapapa is a utility replacement for Cockayne on less money, leaving Briscoe's considerable six-figure salary free.

Horne will be on less than Cooke too, as will Griffin compared to Colbon.

Paea will be on slightly less than Newton too.

Against that, Withers will be coming on more money than Fisher;

And the likes of Taylor and Hodgson have signed significantly raised contracts as have, to a lesser extent, Beaumont, Latus, Dobson and Green.

All told, I would estimate that, even after the anticipated arrivals of Paea and Withers, the club would still have at least £200k salary cap space free.

Must be at least twice that surely. You've lost mason, vella, newton and briscoe who would have been 5 of your top 6 earners and replaced them with no one of note as yet. Must be at least £400k, probably more

To be honest when you can't even count to four I'm going to disregard your salary cap sums

KAPOW!

What's to be jealous of: finishing lower than we have? perhaps he's devastated to have only lost 1 derby game this season? Maybe he's gutted at missing out on some of the quality NRL signings made by your outgoing coach?

The future continues to look rosy what with gates on the up as well as a 3rd consecutive appearance in the play offs.

I'm sure "jealous" is the 1st word on his lips each morning!

Nice ownership Philip.

Very much doubt he will be on less the Cook, He was on peanuts and thats why hes going to quins - wanted to stay but he would earn more in a call centre then what he would staying for that wage; and thats from the player himself.

I find this very hard to believe and was probably said tongue in cheek, after 3 years of no pay rises I once said to my boss 'I would be better off stacking shelves at ASDA', which I wouldn't be really and i doubt Cook would be paid less than a call centre worker for playing SL football.

Not too sure about it being off mark if you look at the recent blogs about what Mariano and Beaumont were on for their 1st year - £7,500. Latus was the same but obviously got more for a 2nd year. Frankie and Esders doubled their wages when they left for example. The top earners are on very good wages, £100,000+ all of them.

Of course I can count to 4, I got to 6

You really are as daft as you seem