How can they effectively write off Saracens' forthcoming season without stripping them of previous titles won with a cheat squad?
How can they effectively write off Saracens' forthcoming season without stripping them of previous titles won with a cheat squad?
Fuck me that's funny, they could almost be relegated off that. Plus we should have two more trophies winging their way down the M5 please.
This Sonny Bill Williams stuff is great. He's earning more than the entire salary cap, but it's easily the biggest signing in Super League ever.
SRU being fined $130 000 is a bit mental.
How good is he? We talking Jamie Lyon good or what?Originally Posted by Lewis
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Much much better than Jamie Lyon.
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He won't be as good as Jamie Lyon was, but he's a miles bigger name.
He is still in peak condition.
Yeah but Lyon was unbelievable in Super League. Easily the best import we've had by an absolute mile.
Yeah fair enough. Im going on him still being capable of battering through the middle of field down here.
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Fair enough.
How about Kristian Woolf? The new Saints coach.
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He's just coached Tonga to wins over Great Britain and Australia which isn't too shabby. Keiron Cunningham could probably win Super League with this Saints squad though.
Anyone but him.
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The NRL may as well give Bali the next team.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/br...9-79e7cfe55451
Wayne Bennett has chucked all of his 2017 goodwill away with this Great Britain tour. Shitty NRL-centric squad selection, crap match selection, one-out rubbish on the field... It's alright if we compete, but we haven't, and people were really excited for the Lions coming back. I'm not saying he is, but if he was phoning it in waiting for his contract to expire it would look a lot like how he's gone about it all.
Bennett sucks and has stayed in the game far past his used by date.
Eddie Jones wants to take over at Souths once Bennett retires.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...508a248701000d
What a shocking upset. @Lewis you must be seething!
Nah. Everybody had already written the tour off, so it's nice for them to get their win in front of their mental fans. I reckon they won't renew Bennett's contract now (they still might have done with a decent win today), and he hasn't helped himself on various fronts; but you also look at everything around him and it seems like a bit of an easy option to spare a bunch of wage-stealing twats who ran every other aspect of the tour.
Joe Marler is the best.
Huge signing for Reds but I am sad the the ARU had to offer him a contract as well.
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2019/1...liasi-vunivalu
Does that mean he will be on massive money? You have to wonder what that centralised NRL fund was for if not keeping the star players for developing countries (although you could imagine the moaning if they helped Melbourne out on salary space).
He would be on more than he could get in the NRL.
I thought it was for that as well. I would love to know where all this TV money goes it all seems a but suss.
They should have waited for Latrell 'Latrell' Mitchell.
Would he be good in Union?
He plays well for twenty minutes a game, so probably.
We do love our impact substitutions.
Rob Burrow could still do a job for Rovers.
That was quick. I read the other day that there isn't a salary cap in the lower division, so presumably they can just send a few of them on a Japanese sabbatical whilst they the decks for coming back up. lol either way.
They'll need to fudge some more rules if they want it to be a single season in the Championship, you're supposed to be able to demonstrate two years of salary cap compliance before you can be promoted. Two trips to Penzance should be punishment enough. Where players go is going to be interesting, either they stay and take smaller contracts to get them under the cap or they go abroad and miss a year or two of international games (plus you have to find someone with enough money left in the budget to actually pay them).
In general though: fucking lol.
Can they loan them up to a spread of Premiership teams?
Some of them probably, not sure if there'll be enough teams who could work such expensive players into their budgets. You aren't going to trim your squad to squeeze them in if they're just loans and nobody is going out of their way to help Saracens at this point.
In which case won't most of them just agree to reduced salaries and quit while they're not overly behind?
No idea. Depends on how much Sarries are actually going to be able to pay them and how willing some of them are to take a pay cut, there's bound to be a few happy to put 100 points on Jersey every weekend (4 years away from the next world cup).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51169248
I like the terminology of 'the goalposts have moved'. They didn't move, they simply didn't stop cheating once they were found out. I didn't realise the club were given a choice of opening their books or relegation, and chose relegation. It could easily be some legal reason but it could also mean there's more dirt to come out and they reckoned they'd be relegated anyway.
Either way, lol.
They've done well to hang onto their titles.
That seems totally mental to me.
I'm sure I read somewhere that there was no provision for it in the rules but it does seem a bit odd. The club have taken the last couple off their website themselves though.
This report makes their cheating seem a bit more smalltime than I had expected. The Melbourne Storm were rolling at something like 125% of the salary cap, where as these chumps have been paying for decorating and image rights.
You expect it from the league ruffians though. This is the gentleman's code.
Baz.
I said last year that if they didn't win it they should be forcibly shut down, but it really, really should be Warrington's year this year. If Gareth Widdop isn't as decrepit as feared they will have the best halves combination since peak Leeds, and the rest of the side is handy enough.
1. Warrington
2. Wigan
3. Saints
4. Lee Radford FC
Hopefully Huddersfield go down instead of Rovers, and Luke Thompson will win Man of Steel on his way to Australia.
Israel Folau to Catalans is a top move. Their spine is excellent now, and their owner is a big enough mentalist not to care about any financial hit. Then again, their main sponsors are shady local tourism fronts and whoever makes them weird paprika crisps to sell to said tourists, so they won't do much. The other clubs are FUMING though. Wigan have designated their round six tie 'Pride Round', so hopefully Catalans go full heel and make the reverse fixture 'Drug Cheat Round' or 'Assault Forcing an Opponent to Retire Round'.
Super League having the two biggest names in rugby/religious fundamentalism.
Losing to France
A pity we barely played for the first hour.
Another odds-on BOTTLE JOB.
In better news, Wayne Bennett OUT. Shaun Wane IN.
lol at this. Let's see if they use those powers next time someone belts their girlfriend.
He's a dick but that is the slipperiest of slopes.
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