Re: The mad doctor : Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:43 am  

It takes a decade to grow your own wood, koukash needs success now to maintain his interests and is willing to pay to get it
Give him licence to sign from our threats in RFU and NRL just no loans or debts on the accounts, we can reverse the player drain here let's take it

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:28 pm  

Mad or just passionate and not prepared to take second best in life? http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... ford-dream

Mad or just passionate and not prepared to take second best in life? http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... ford-dream

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:44 pm  

Nostradamus's lad wrote:

Give him licence to sign from our threats in RFU and NRL just no loans or debts on the accounts, we can reverse the player drain here let's take it

Think the 'Golden Ticket' idea is good.

Think it will be introduced before too long.

Think there just needed to be a decent space of time between the new SKY deal being announced and the introduction of Golden Ticket - just to avoid any apparent, though erroneous, connection between the two.

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:04 pm  

BartonFlyer wrote: Mad or just passionate and not prepared to take second best in life? http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... ford-dream His best interview I've seen of him. I've been quite vocal against some of his suggestions so far, but he was really rather pleasent just focussing in what, as a club, needs to be done to be successful. I've been thinking recently (dangerous I know), there's no reason why clubs couldn't "rent" cap space (to my knowledge) - it would take organisation between two clubs, but it's certainly doable. Taking the Sam burgess situation as an example: suppose Bradford have ~500k on the cap that they can't spend, Salford, Bradford and burgess come to an agreement, where by Sam burgess signs for Bradford for said 500k a year, and immediately loaned to Salford. Salford in return pay the full cost of the contract (1m for 2 year contract, 1.5m for 3 years etc) + an agreed fee for the cap space (200k being the obvious example.) Bradford put his wages in a secured account (and can keep the interest it earns over the contract) to make sure they can pay him, and have the "agreement money" to help the financial burden they're under. There's a clause in the loan agreement stating if Bradford change ownership to a wealthy, ambitious individual, Bradford can negotiate a return for a set percentage of the money Salford paid (half way through 50% of the agreement money, 100% of the remaining wage money, 2/3 of the way through: 1/3 the money and 80% of remaining wage money etc) - and automatically have a star player for the new owner to work with. The only flaw would be if the "agreement fee" would count on salfords salary cap (I know it does in the championship, but I can't find anything about it in the super league rules) Smaller cap spaces can be used by teams looking to unearth gems in the championship/ keep on youngsters who might develop whilst not risking salary cap space. Once all clubs are spending up to the cap, through either renting or spending, then look into increasing/ bringing in additional rules (like the marquee signing rule)

BartonFlyer wrote: Mad or just passionate and not prepared to take second best in life? http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... ford-dream His best interview I've seen of him. I've been quite vocal against some of his suggestions so far, but he was really rather pleasent just focussing in what, as a club, needs to be done to be successful. I've been thinking recently (dangerous I know), there's no reason why clubs couldn't "rent" cap space (to my knowledge) - it would take organisation between two clubs, but it's certainly doable. Taking the Sam burgess situation as an example: suppose Bradford have ~500k on the cap that they can't spend, Salford, Bradford and burgess come to an agreement, where by Sam burgess signs for Bradford for said 500k a year, and immediately loaned to Salford. Salford in return pay the full cost of the contract (1m for 2 year contract, 1.5m for 3 years etc) + an agreed fee for the cap space (200k being the obvious example.) Bradford put his wages in a secured account (and can keep the interest it earns over the contract) to make sure they can pay him, and have the "agreement money" to help the financial burden they're under. There's a clause in the loan agreement stating if Bradford change ownership to a wealthy, ambitious individual, Bradford can negotiate a return for a set percentage of the money Salford paid (half way through 50% of the agreement money, 100% of the remaining wage money, 2/3 of the way through: 1/3 the money and 80% of remaining wage money etc) - and automatically have a star player for the new owner to work with. The only flaw would be if the "agreement fee" would count on salfords salary cap (I know it does in the championship, but I can't find anything about it in the super league rules) Smaller cap spaces can be used by teams looking to unearth gems in the championship/ keep on youngsters who might develop whilst not risking salary cap space. Once all clubs are spending up to the cap, through either renting or spending, then look into increasing/ bringing in additional rules (like the marquee signing rule)

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:48 pm  

top 4 still looking good

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:56 pm  

Shocker, Salford are still crap.

Who didn't see this coming really. Proof as always you shouldn't make bold claims before you've earned the right to.

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:57 pm  

Loved the use of the Dr Who theme tune at the end of the game

Subtle - Very Subtle

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:14 pm  

salford still an average side... what a surprise. all talk, no action.

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:53 pm  

Quins_Bull wrote:

Loved the use of the Dr Who theme tune at the end of the game

Subtle - Very Subtle

Not subtle at all......but very very funny. Hope he has a sense of humour because the chants etc are not going to go away this season.

Re: The mad doctor : Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:00 pm  

If he has any sense, he'll take it as a great compliment. How often are the owners of clubs talked about by fans. He may be a bit brash with some of his comments but he's keeping rugby league in the public eye.