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DaveO wrote:
We certainly did have a lot of experienced players retire or leave at the same time but it was also around this time players like Hock, Hansen and Lockers arrived on the scene. Brown was hailed as something special as will (with Stevo buying him a watch for what he thought was a MoM performance). There were other young players making their way through back then such as Goulding so I don't think it's fair to say there was no planning. We had a good production line back then some of whom went on to provide the backbone of Madge and Wanes teams. If there was a failing it was lack of an experienced side for them to slot into.
Recruitment, transfer policy and planning remains a hot topic now under IL. The fact Lockers and Tommy have gone on as long as they have is just as bad a bit of succession planning as anything under the previous regime. Giving Clubb a two year extension hardly went without more than a few negative comments. That's three senior players who should have hung up their boots by now. As to people pointing out Moran as an awful signing, what about the farce that was the signing of Andy Powell under IL?
It's pretty easy to point to failings of past regimes but the current one is not without its faults.
As to players who were brought in back in 2006 there were some dire panic buys but what was striking about 2006 was a change of coach and the addition of two players, Fielden and Dobson, completely turned the teams performances around. They didn't replace the entire team. I bet Millward was more than a bit miffed he wasn't given those two players to add to his team when the wheels were coming off.
You heard of SALARY CAP?
And I specifically replied because I knew you were defending the Management back then to counter it and try and promote criticism of today's management.
99_07 compared to 08-18 is like night and day.
Its ok talking about producing Brown/Robinson/wild/Aspinwall, but they were far too young at the time to carry the team forward and where did they end up?
In the pursuit of a quick solution we paid far too much for the "Saviours" of our 2006 season and proceeding that Feka, Richard's, seu seu, calderwood etc and couldnt hold on to the youngsters we could have.
Maurice and Dave's answer was to go and buy a solution short term, but long term that messed our salary cap up for years.
Mo probably thought he could/would talk his way around it.
Dave thought hed bully the RFL into letting him get away with it (Remember him crying to the press that the RFL should do away with salary cap, whilst crying to the football league and PL that he coudlnt compete in football with out a salary cap).
That deanery forum was alarming
In 2006/7 we were paying something like 75% of salary cap to 25% of the players.
The top 4/5 earners were taking all the money (Fielden/calderwood/Feka and Richard's are the names that spring to mind).
Unsustainable
Never mind how the other players in the squad and juniors were being treated and paid.
IFL may have made some mistakes, Andy Powell, karl pryce and I'm sure theres others.
But none of them jeopardises the bigger picture and the youth development and systems/processes.
Not a big lover of the salary cap, but if that's the game then IFL played it 10xtimes or more better than the previous regime
Statistics: Posted by Jukesays — Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:08 pm — Replies 42 — Views 3405