I would have thought you'd be able to do that!

Possibly but we all know that if we get the chop the vultures will be circling.

aye, - like wakey did when Rooney was with Fev!!!





Seriously, you will lose the best players, but you'll also lose those salaries.

It will take a while to adjust to the championship and a new structure of how your club is formed.



If you develop quality, entertaining players that can rip up the championship, inevitably they will want to try their hand at the highest level. and fair do's.

If a club tries to prevent this, you have a disgruntled player who doesn't give his all and it sends a message to other kids who may have considered a move to wakey that your club stands in the way of them progressing.



Both Zak and briggsy both went to SL. But cos they were particularly 'stand-outs' in that league and on long deals, we got good wonga for em.



Any good players in the championship will always attract attention from SL clubs.

And its being partly used to fund Cockaynes wages, just brilliant mate.

haha money well spent in cockayne.

I agree - hope we can hang on to them both.

I know what you mean if we had acted a couple of weeks earlier we could have got Semi for half the price

no it isn't!!

are you're in a position to mock our club on how money is spent????

Ah sorry, he's playing for a "radlinski" then.

Al, I know you're only having a leg pull n'all that, but Ben is not extending our budget beyond existing levels. We've a decent bod wi decent contact able to recruit (at this level) and pull in a 'favour' or two!

I'm quite happy with Ben's signing and regard it as a zero risk quality signing for fev tho to be fair, he got little of the ball last night!



Now, back to the OP topic. Would you personally think JR would be a good signing for wakey's return to rugby outside the top flight??

(and JR is being paid much much more per week at Barra than Ben will be getting at Fev)!

I'm going to put a different spin on this.



I agree with RFF about Rooney this year. He has been atrocious. In the game at our place he was invisible. However the year before he was still decent and one of the players in this division that just has a look of being a standard above. Harris was the same when he was playing for Fev and Webster when he was playing for Hull KR. They seem to ghost around hardly getting touched and when they get involved they look class.



In Rooney's case I actually believe that the situation at Barrow is having a massive impact. He went there on a substantial wage and probably a bit of a promise of putting together a decent SL bid. In the last twelve months Barrow seem to be imploding and you can see it in the players performances. Chopping and changing coaches, Des doing the HT team talks, Directors standing down on a weekly basis. Now Catic has gone and there are rumours that Thackray is unhappy with the travelling. Stories of financial problems and potentially facing a points deduction for a hefty salary cap breach. It is not he most harmonious place to be and I think this could be affecting Rooney's game.



I don't think he is a Boss player but I think he is a better player than RFF is making out. If you went for him and dropped I think you would have one of the best halfbacks in this division back playing for you as I think it would rejuvenate him.