Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:21 pm  

And James "James Wins" Maloney?

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:02 pm  

AXE2GRIND wrote:

Words you say as you crack one off in front of the mirror before logging in here as multiple posters and then totalfascistrl as Manfred Mann.
Simple bet for you.
If John Drake can confirm that i don't post on his toilet site, either as allora or anyone else, will you just love off and leave us all alone?

This place used to be habitable 6 years or so ago, when you roamed as Barry, but christ on a bike they made some strange choices regarding what's OK and what isn't since.

So.....over to you Bazza. Straight yes or no. If Drake confirms that I no longer post there and am not allora, will you love off?

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:09 pm  

If true it works out at around £57,000 a week there will be entire superleague squads that won’t cost half of SBW wages, it’s staggering. Who’s that centre they have on £400,000 a year too ? Some wage bill but what an entertaining team they’ll have.

I can’t see it being sustainable, just as long as mr money bags is feeling generous, Keep it coming. He’ll certainly pull the viewers in. I can imagine some of those current players being on very good, inflated salaries to help them win the championship but will be under contract, will they pay off their contracts and bring in better players for similar salaries?

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:16 pm  

Pats plastic pitch wrote:

If true it works out at around £57,000 a week there will be entire superleague squads that won’t cost half of SBW wages, it’s staggering. Who’s that centre they have on £400,000 a year too ? Some wage bill but what an entertaining team they’ll have.

I can’t see it being sustainable, just as long as mr money bags is feeling generous, Keep it coming. He’ll certainly pull the viewers in. I can imagine some of those current players being on very good, inflated salaries to help them win the championship but will be under contract, will they pay off their contracts and bring in better players for similar salaries?

Ricky Leutele, £430,000 a year - Which makes him the highest paid centre in the world.

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:32 pm  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

Toronto’s signing of SBW is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, it’s going to raise the profile of the club and of the competition.
On the other, I think they are going about the on-field success in the wrong way. We’ve seen time and time again that in RL, having a couple of superstars rather than a deep squad of good players never works. Apart from SBW, I don’t see many in that Toronto team who are SL standard. They’ve also used up both marquee spots.

What I don't quite get is that I thought their stadium was already limited to 10k so how many more fans can it drag in for Toronto?

So I don't think it is about income generation for Toronto, therefore the signing has to be for on field purposes rather than off-field

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:00 pm  

steve_norton wrote:

How many months till they go bankrupt with contracts like that?

David Argyle is a Billionaire, so not going to happen

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:33 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Having Sonny Bill Williams at Toronto, James "Jimmy Wins" Maloney at Catalans, and Manu Ma'u at Hull FC, there will be a fierce competition for Man of Steel in 2020.

As a Penrith supporter it was not a winning Maloney for us. Brought in to partner our SOO scrumhalf for his last 2 seasons in the NRL,a team tipped to reach the top 4 finished 5th in 2018 and 10th last season.

As for Manu Ma'u for MOS you should get massive odds for that pick as over many years now the award has been awarded to spine players at No's1,6,7 and 9. Think the last second-rower to win it played for Bradford.

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:41 pm  

Smart play from Toronto to have a London press conference scheduled next week to announce SBW. All media outlets will be reporting, Rugby League in the UK is gonna grab some national media attention. Hey you never know. We may get some big brands looking at Rugby League on the back of this news. Toronto looking @ another big Rugby Union player https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... d-toronto/

Smart play from Toronto to have a London press conference scheduled next week to announce SBW. All media outlets will be reporting, Rugby League in the UK is gonna grab some national media attention. Hey you never know. We may get some big brands looking at Rugby League on the back of this news. Toronto looking @ another big Rugby Union player https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... d-toronto/

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:53 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

What I don't quite get is that I thought their stadium was already limited to 10k so how many more fans can it drag in for Toronto?

So I don't think it is about income generation for Toronto, therefore the signing has to be for on field purposes rather than off-field

They give away a lot of free tickets, im not knocking that as it has built a fanbase and im always happy to see full grounds...but the next step has to be converting these fans into paying fans who will be lifelong fans. Signing a big name helps with that massively. Also helps bring in some TV deals for their home games.

This is massive for Super League, only bringing Sam Burgess home or signing Owen Farrell would have been on a par in terms of generating media interest.

Re: Sbw to Toronto : Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:39 pm  

Sonny Bill Williams is a big name in New Zealand, Australia, England, the Pacific Islands and pretty much anywhere where kids grow up playing with a rugby ball.
North American kids grow up with a baseball, NFL ball, Basketball, soccer ball or hockey puck. The comparisons to Beckham are moot, given that the MSL was already up and running and in the main, had tapped into the Hispanic populations and ex-pat Europeans for fans.
Either code of Rugby is decades away from scratching the surface of the landscape of North America, but as long as Argyle is willing to throw his cash at it, then so be it, but he's making a mockery of the cap and why we have it. If he signs SBW and Tuilagi from Union, then those 2 together with the highest paid Centre in the world will be costing more than any other SL squad....
...and then still, why? Will a NA TV deal be signed on the back of a few unknown players? Doubtful. Will they shoe-horn any more fans into the beer tent? Aren't they already at capacity? Will Toronto win SL with the current squad and a couple of marquee players. Not a chance.....so what is Argyles point, other than showing how much money he has?