Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:05 pm  

Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers The second round of the Super 8 Qualifiers got underway at Belle Vue as Bradford Bulls quest for a 2016 Super League place rolled into town to take on a Wakefield Wildcats desperate to retain their own top flight position. Wakefield lost narrowly to the Salford Red Devils last week, while the Bulls were getting their campaign off to the best of starts in going to the top of the table with a big 42-10 victory over the Sheffield Eagles. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers The second round of the Super 8 Qualifiers got underway at Belle Vue as Bradford Bulls quest for a 2016 Super League place rolled into town to take on a Wakefield Wildcats desperate to retain their own top flight position. Wakefield lost narrowly to the Salford Red Devils last week, while the Bulls were getting their campaign off to the best of starts in going to the top of the table with a big 42-10 victory over the Sheffield Eagles. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:36 pm  

Discuss

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:48 pm  

cross lane cat wrote:

Discuss

Team from a league above, at home, with basically twice as much money to spend on players, win a game?

And you seem delighted about that?

If anything, it merely goes to show that the middle 8's are just there to placate the Championship clubs who have been denied promotion through franchising.

It is not a level playing field.

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:40 pm  

They don't have twice as much money though. Including the parachute payment, Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:48 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

They don't have twice as much money though. Including the parachute payment, Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

Do you know what the respective salary caps are and how each club is spending them? As far as I am aware we are spending most of ours but I don't know the exact allowance compared with Wakeys and their subsequent spending.

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:49 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

They don't have twice as much money though. Including the parachute payment, Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

Can you run your calculations by me, because I haven't a clue how you've got to that conclusion.

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:50 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

It has been a while. We need time to learn how to spend the cap again.

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:45 am  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

They don't have twice as much money though. Including the parachute payment, Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

I presume you mean that they got all their entitlement rather than it being given to the other clubs like last year. There was no parachute money as such. The amout was based on finishing position last year and it was much less than SL clubs but much more than many Championship clubs.

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Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sun Aug 16, 2015 11:36 am  

I think you are mixing up Wakefield being allowed to spend to the Super League limit and Wakefield actually having money.

Re: Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers : Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:43 pm  

They've had enough money to pay off several players contracts in full (about 3months worth) and then sign several players extra for those 3 months.

With the increased central funding next year in sl, definitely worth speculating though