Totonto and the Salary Cap

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by nottinghamtiger » 25 Jan 2020, 16:59

tigerfeat wrote: 25 Jan 2020, 07:05
nottinghamtiger wrote: 25 Jan 2020, 01:13
casjunction wrote: 25 Jan 2020, 00:50 There is a difference between an athlete and a member of a team.
Is this the same lad who l saw give away his Runners up medal as he viewed it as worthless.
Great player but an ego not compatible with his beliefs unless it suits.
There are loads of players who have played as a team, but not sported sponsorship for gambling firms or alcoholic drinks. Some Newcastle players declined to wear such sponsorship more than ten years ago.
It wasn’t a runners-up medal he gave away either - it was a winner’s medal,
Seems to me that everyone wants to see the worst in him, whilst we should be celebrating the fact that we have a worldwide superstar in the competition who we can actually hold up as a model professional.
If every player in our squad had the attitude of SBW, we’d be better off. Unfortunately, most of them are too busy getting sozzled, fighting and falling out with each other. Put SBW into our squad and he changes the culture of the club.
SBW as been involved in more than his fair share of boozy stuff so that's just tripe
One of the times he walked out of rugby league to join kick and clap I think it might have been while he was at the Bulldogs he was a character hated in the Nrl and seen always interested in money
The way he's behaved a lot of the time are polar opposite to someone with strong religious beliefs least in my eyes
Perhaps he has a different attitude now he’s in his mid-30s than he did in his late teems and early 20s?

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by casjunction » 25 Jan 2020, 23:02

Twas a runners up medal.
Old Trafford 2013.
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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by alftupper » 26 Jan 2020, 10:18

HuddsTigers wrote: 25 Jan 2020, 11:03 Unless he converted to said religious beliefs after making poor decisions in the past?
his poor decisions will be a thing of the past now he’s converted to Islam I suppose :D

On the sponsorship front I think in a secular society it is wrong that an individual can dictate what he wears like this if others in that society cannot do the same. Just because his sky fairy tells him it is bad it is irrelevant, he should tow the line. I too wouldn’t want to wear a shirt with a betting company splashed all over it but as I’m not a signed up member of a crackpot religion I would have no recourse

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by HuddsTigers » 26 Jan 2020, 11:51

Nothing stopping you from starting your own religion, Alf, and dictating what you can/can't do. Religion is a protected category so you can't be penalised for it. I'm sure there's a few people who would jump on board Alfyism.
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Post by old cas lass » 08 Feb 2020, 17:28

Got beat again today by Salford.

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by Nobody » 08 Feb 2020, 18:10

Mcdonut has walked out of the AJ Bell without doing a press conference :D
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Post by old cas lass » 08 Feb 2020, 19:01

Nobody wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 18:10 Mcdonut has walked out of the AJ Bell without doing a press conference :D

Haha yeah just seen this On twitter.

Farcical scenes at the AJ Bell Stadium. Brian McDermott has walked out without doing the official post-match press conference

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Post by tigerfeat » 08 Feb 2020, 19:44

old cas lass wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 19:01
Nobody wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 18:10 Mcdonut has walked out of the AJ Bell without doing a press conference :D

Haha yeah just seen this On twitter.

Farcical scenes at the AJ Bell Stadium. Brian McDermott has walked out without doing the official post-match press conference
Why what was up with him then
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Post by Bolton-tiger » 08 Feb 2020, 20:16

tigerfeat wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 19:44
old cas lass wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 19:01
Nobody wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 18:10 Mcdonut has walked out of the AJ Bell without doing a press conference :D

Haha yeah just seen this On twitter.

Farcical scenes at the AJ Bell Stadium. Brian McDermott has walked out without doing the official post-match press conference
Why what was up with him then
Confusion he said,waiting to be called in to do media and waiting ages so thought they didnt want to speak to the losing coach so he walked off

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by alftupper » 08 Feb 2020, 20:58

He’s probably still upset that a small northern England town beat him last week

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by tigerfeat » 08 Feb 2020, 21:23

Yeah pit rats as he once eloquently called us
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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by Piquad1 » 09 Feb 2020, 05:37

Pit rats how dare he lol. I might be a pit rat but I've got manners and respect other people's comments. Pit rat I can't get over that the moron.

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by tigerfeat » 09 Feb 2020, 06:43

Someone told me they heard him say it in the Leeds changing room down lane ...as in were not going to let these bleeping pit rats beat us today are we ...sounds about right to me
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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by Tamworth Tiger » 09 Feb 2020, 09:42

tigerfeat wrote: 09 Feb 2020, 06:43 Someone told me they heard him say it in the Leeds changing room down lane ...as in were not going to let these bleeping pit rats beat us today are we ...sounds about right to me
Did they let us beat them on that occasion, or was it something that happened long, long ago?

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by SuffolkTiger » 09 Feb 2020, 10:18

tigerfeat wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 19:44
old cas lass wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 19:01
Nobody wrote: 08 Feb 2020, 18:10 Mcdonut has walked out of the AJ Bell without doing a press conference :D

Haha yeah just seen this On twitter.

Farcical scenes at the AJ Bell Stadium. Brian McDermott has walked out without doing the official post-match press conference
Why what was up with him then
He was just being Brian. Sulking and looking for someone to blame.

The whole situation with having a “Canadian” club in SL is plastic and false.

Seeing Elstone using phrases like “Transatlantic competition” is cringeworthy. It’s an opportunistic gig that’s happened by accident - not design.

Having competitive teams in Wales & Scotland would give the game far more credence and media coverage. As would a league structure without loop fixtures - something that is so complex to explain to any new fans.

As for SBW, he’s in it for the cash. Nothing else.

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Post by cogito ergo sum » 09 Feb 2020, 10:19

Not sure what we are now since the pits shut.
Answers on a postcard.

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by SuffolkTiger » 09 Feb 2020, 23:36

cogito ergo sum wrote: 09 Feb 2020, 10:19 Not sure what we are now since the pits shut.
Answers on a postcard.
I'm sure that Ray French will be able to help out here. Some of his "I didn't realise the microphone was still on" moments revealed a real dislike for us.

How he ever made a career in broadcasting defies belief...

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by Ken Smith » 10 Feb 2020, 10:16

Totally agree with Suffolktiger about Toronto. I doubt they’ll ever sign a Canadian player in my lifetime. I doubt that Rugby League has much appeal in Scotland though and several attempts to spread the game in Wales have never succeeded. It’s a pity some millionaire can’t be found to put money into a Midlands club such as Coventry or Leicester as then Super League might then really take off and do away with the stupid loop fixtures. Incidentally I was led to believe that Swinton were to change there name to Manchester
yet still quoted as Swinton Lions at the moment. I’m wondering if there had been some objections from Salford.

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Post by orrsome » 10 Feb 2020, 22:36

IMO Toronto WP is very likely to fail as it cannot Call upon local talent and (so far) has had to buy in established RL players.
My view is that any investment in RL expansion should be channeled into places such as Cumbria, where there is a history of RL and some UK cities where there is at least a thriving RU game so that talent can be recognised and brought into RL.

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Re: Totonto and the Salary Cap

Post by Tamworth Tiger » 11 Feb 2020, 01:17

Ken Smith wrote: 10 Feb 2020, 10:16 Totally agree with Suffolktiger about Toronto. I doubt they’ll ever sign a Canadian player in my lifetime. I doubt that Rugby League has much appeal in Scotland though and several attempts to spread the game in Wales have never succeeded. It’s a pity some millionaire can’t be found to put money into a Midlands club such as Coventry or Leicester as then Super League might then really take off and do away with the stupid loop fixtures. Incidentally I was led to believe that Swinton were to change there name to Manchester
yet still quoted as Swinton Lions at the moment. I’m wondering if there had been some objections from Salford.
In the case of Swinton I think the Board voted it down
In terms of the Midlands I’ve spent 35 of the last 40 years living in the East and West Midlands and was in Nottingham during the Nottingham City years. Quite honestly even though there are one or two big Union clubs generally Union isn’t that popular and not many understand there are two codes.
Football is king and I don’t believe a midlands city will take off when we can’t hack it at the top level in London,Sheffield or for that matter Bradford these days. Coventry is probably the best bet but the RFL will have to do better than the shambolic Four Nations double header four or so years ago which got virtually no local coverage

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