Re: Jake Webster
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:29 am
Strange how many teams are suddenly quoting salary cap problems, is is because the new system will be harder to fiddle
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With Webster now officially confirmed at HKR and with their other potential signings of Shaun Briscoe, Clint Newton, Ben Galea and Daniel Fitzhenry the side that has beaten us twice with a bunch or ex-NL1 stars looks likely on paper to be several classes above us next season already.Cruncher posted:
Top players are currently rushing past us to get to teams like Wire, Hudds, Hull KR, there are stories of widespread discord in the junior ranks, while several first-teamers and even the head coach don't apparently know what their status will be next year.
At a time when we should be strengthening for next season - having apparently given up early on this one - we're in Limbo, and it's costing us dear.
Well HKR don't seem to have a problem with the salary cap.emperor kel posted:
Strange how many teams are suddenly quoting salary cap problems, is is because the new system will be harder to fiddle
I must confess, I'm baffled as to how Hull KR are managing to assemble a team like this and stay within the cap. Of course, they haven't got all these players yet, but they seem very confident.DaveO posted:Well HKR don't seem to have a problem with the salary cap.emperor kel posted:
Strange how many teams are suddenly quoting salary cap problems, is is because the new system will be harder to fiddle
If you mean Wire and Hull (the latter releasing Briscoe for salary cap reasons) then their salary cap "problems" have only been brought about because the players they are letting go are being replaced by better players coming in.
I would like to see us with the same problem.
Dave
with he removal of the 50% upper limit and so in reality HKR have an extra 200,000 or so to spend, plus a liot of thier squad will be on upgraded NL1 contractsCruncher posted:
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I must confess, I'm baffled as to how Hull KR are managing to assemble a team like this and stay within the cap. Of course, they haven't got all these players yet, but they seem very confident.
Either way, they look a lot more dynamic than us. They've already secured Webster even though they're still in real danger of relegation, play in a rubbish dump and look odds-on not to get a franchise in 2009. They must talk a much better fight than we do.
But there's still a ceiling on what you can spend.Lazy J posted:with he removal of the 50% upper limit and so in reality HKR have an extra 200,000 or so to spend, plus a liot of thier squad will be on upgraded NL1 contractsCruncher posted:
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I must confess, I'm baffled as to how Hull KR are managing to assemble a team like this and stay within the cap. Of course, they haven't got all these players yet, but they seem very confident.
Either way, they look a lot more dynamic than us. They've already secured Webster even though they're still in real danger of relegation, play in a rubbish dump and look odds-on not to get a franchise in 2009. They must talk a much better fight than we do.
I suspect they've done better financially than they budgeted for; their crowds have been pretty good for a newly promoted side (averaging around 7.5k).Cruncher posted:But there's still a ceiling on what you can spend.Lazy J posted:with he removal of the 50% upper limit and so in reality HKR have an extra 200,000 or so to spend, plus a liot of thier squad will be on upgraded NL1 contractsCruncher posted:
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I must confess, I'm baffled as to how Hull KR are managing to assemble a team like this and stay within the cap. Of course, they haven't got all these players yet, but they seem very confident.
Either way, they look a lot more dynamic than us. They've already secured Webster even though they're still in real danger of relegation, play in a rubbish dump and look odds-on not to get a franchise in 2009. They must talk a much better fight than we do.
It wouldn't surprise me if they beat us next week as well. They genuinely seem to be a club looking to the future. I don't know where our lot are currently looking.GeoffN posted:I suspect they've done better financially than they budgeted for; their crowds have been pretty good for a newly promoted side (averaging around 7.5k).Cruncher posted:But there's still a ceiling on what you can spend.Lazy J posted: with he removal of the 50% upper limit and so in reality HKR have an extra 200,000 or so to spend, plus a liot of thier squad will be on upgraded NL1 contracts
Also, they don't look to have a very expensive squad; Paul Cooke is probably the nearest thing to a "star" (which makes it all the more embarrassing that they keep beating our overpriced bunch of also-rans!)
At their bank books !!Cruncher posted:It wouldn't surprise me if they beat us next week as well. They genuinely seem to be a club looking to the future. I don't know where our lot are currently looking.GeoffN posted:I suspect they've done better financially than they budgeted for; their crowds have been pretty good for a newly promoted side (averaging around 7.5k).Cruncher posted: But there's still a ceiling on what you can spend.
Also, they don't look to have a very expensive squad; Paul Cooke is probably the nearest thing to a "star" (which makes it all the more embarrassing that they keep beating our overpriced bunch of also-rans!)