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Is this guy losing the plot? Barrow are second have only lost 1 League game and are doing above what most people expected!

He's a football man and in football you buy success. I hope we absolutely hammer them on Sunday.

Are the Salary Cap chappies at Red Hall aware that he is paying all this money out....?

Haven't they lost 2?

They are going through a bit of a low patch but I'm sure they will be all psyched up for playing us sunday.

I don't know whether to be excited or nervous.

You are right 2 my bad.

Reading that is un-real!

Has he looked over at Widnes at all?

He would be suicidal like VM if things were like at Widnes!

Sounds a nice bloke - not.
Having a money man running your club is nice when money is no object and you can buy who you like and maybe some success but when they interfere with the team its going too far.
I like the quote 'lets ram it down his big mouth' about Matt Callands now infamous quote, well look whos talking now pal.
Lets hope you have the last laugh Matt



Glad we don't have this guy at Fax he sounds a right arrogant so and so.

there is no place in society for scumbags like that guy

A rich one though


He must have done something right!

yeah- screwing people over and licking the backsides of others where most appropriate

Wooh there cowboy or maybe Breakback Mountain cowboy???

whats breakback mountain?

I have now read that news article a few times. An idiot or a genius? I would have to say an idiot.

Do rugby players want to play for someone a selfish as this man? At no point in his litle speech does he say the players should be performing better because people are paying good money to watch them, he is only bothered about the fact he is paying their wages.

Apparently, he assembled the squad (nothing to do with the coaching staff).
He is paying their wages (nothing to do with people paying money to watch them).
And he thinks the players will try harder against us to give them a chance of getting in the side for the telly game? So is he picking the team?

MC should get this put on the wall in the dressing room, what more motivation do the lads need?

I wonder how long this guy will continue pour cash into Barrow esp if they don't win anything, or if they don't get a franchise in a couple of years. Sounds like he's playing fantasy rugby league for real.

What an **** hole





How to **** off your players. They may not be the best team, but they are new to the league and top of the table and yet he's still calling them crap

Since he got involved with Barrow RL, we've gone from a team that won just 1 game in 2005, to a team that's been in the top 2 of the Championship for most of the season and in the semi's of the NR Cup.

He's a winner who doesn't tolerate losers or under-performers. Most of the players at the club have been brought in under Des' Chairmanship, so they know exactly what he's like and respect him, as do the fans.

Should be a cracking atmosphere and game on Sunday (hopefully). At least 4 full buses and dozens of cars heading over the Pennines come Sunday.

And a lot of miserable faces on the way back hopefully

No offence but that's laughable. Your current team has been put together in one pre-season and is built on one man's cash which at the end of the day is what you're players a playing for. Take that away and you're back to square one.

I would be very, very wary of this guy. From reading other posts it states that he is into football and is a big Man U fan.

I get the impression that he wants to be the chairman of a top level sports team to boost his obviously sizeable ego. Now, I don't know what he's worth but he would have to be mega-wealthy to buy a Premiership football club but a top level RL club comes a lot cheaper. The thing is though, in RL it isn't just about money because even at the top level players don't earn enough for it to be just about the money. Leeds have always been cash rich but underachieved for years.

It sounds to me like if he doesn't get a rapid return on his investment he will spit his dummy right across the Irish Sea.

I agree that Barrow have turned themselves around and are a surprise package to be at top of Championship right now, but these cmments have been made after a couple of less than impressive performances where you actually won and are still sat atop the league.

What happens if Fax go 3 scores in front this weekend? Will your lads think back to his rant and lift their game or think sod it, the game has gone, and whats the worst he can do to us?

If we beat you and you but you get a bonus point we will go top on points difference. Surely to be joint top is far beyond any pre-season expectations?

I hope its a good game with a great atmosphere, but part of me wants us to run away with it just to see the reaction

Oops I meant Brokeback Mountain. Maybe it will be breakback if this guy legs it from Barrow in the future, which most rich Chairman usually do apart from Ken Davy at Huddersfield and Jack Wilkinson at Salford.
Look at Donny, Widnes, and us in the nineties when Tony Gartland very sadly left.

Hes probably still smartin from Weisner tittle tattling on him about his way of bending the salary cap.

Barrow wont get a franchise in 2 years they have next to no chance, seems to me like he's enjoying the challenge and trying to unsettle Halifax a little. Hopefully Widnes can bypass both of you while you argue like girls.

Is this the same as Widnes players "play fighting"? Or is that not at all a bit girly?