Just found the Toronto squad...



No Caton-Brown...

It is getting a bit tiresome when threads get deflected to talking about Wakefield, there must be some pills available for chronic obsession.

Come on Fax....

Quote ="dboy"That's quite an imagination you have there. Feel free to post some links - it must have been very well covered. Never heard of a club being docked points for not paying players!!'" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 471961.stm Docked for overspending on the cap not for not paying players. There were many players in 2000 squad didn't get paid on several occasions during the season. They had their contracts cancelled at the end of the season, so had to take them to court etc. Knew one personally and it was a hard time for him with a mortgage and kids to feed. Anyway few good players playing in championship next year if Toronto don't come up.

Quote ="dboy"That's quite an imagination you have there. Feel free to post some links - it must have been very well covered. Never heard of a club being docked points for not paying players!!'" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 471961.stm Docked for overspending on the cap not for not paying players. There were many players in 2000 squad didn't get paid on several occasions during the season. They had their contracts cancelled at the end of the season, so had to take them to court etc. Knew one personally and it was a hard time for him with a mortgage and kids to feed. Anyway few good players playing in championship next year if Toronto don't come up.

Yup but you get used to it - it’s manly one person and his many face and the odd Shudds fan.

That said and tbf this thread was about Wakefiel to start with

Wasn't the issue Wakefield sacked them illegally as a former board member took all the money or something similar so they took the club to court ?
sure i remember that going round at the time.

So back to Caton-Brown...…..which is the point of the thread.

I hope the RFL can support him while the contract is being sorted.
Wakefield may not be able to just take him back if they have allocated that money elsewhere.

If Toronto can't pay Wakefield they shouldn't be able to play MCB, but surely he has a case there as they have stopped his source of income by breaking their contract.
Hope he sorts it out quickly.

Maybe Leeds can step in as they may need a temporary fix, or Toulouse for that matter as he would have scored their tries from kicks. If nothing else he can score tries.

Councillor Pearman disappeared to Amsterdam and claimed ill-health when the authorities tried to get him back here, to answer the allegations. He's still there.

Alleged to have disappeared with all the sponsorship money, or something.

It's not a case of "hoping" the RFL do anything.

The RFLs Operational Rules are unequivocal - a transfer is not sanctioned until payment is made.

IF Trinity have moved MCB on to free up cash elsewhere, they may not be able to take him back and if he cant play for Toronto, it leaves the player in no mans land, without a club that he could play for.
This isn't Trinity's problem but, MCB hasn't done anything wrong but could be left without a club or, any income ??

If his new contract is not authorised by the RFL, he remains a registered Wakefield player.

Wakefield might decide to take TO to task over the fee and resultant costs, i.e. having to keep paying MCB.

Whether they would want to do that, I don't know.

I doubt either MCB or his agent are enamoured by TO at this moment.

MCB may be needed by Toronto who have had both their wingers go off injured against Halifax

Cheers for that, knew i wasn't far off

Well then they can fork up the 10k then. Surely that isn't a problem for them?

...and as the transfer deadline has passed it should no longer be possible to register him as a TWP player....

This entire story has been created by a single post from Mark Wilson, who started a Twitter post just before the weekend with "It is my understanding that .... " Not one person, neither club, nor the player himself has said anything to confirm or deny or explain the situation. And Caton-Brown was apparently with the Wolfpack at the Shay today.

Nevertheless, the entire tinfoil brigade is out hurling accusations at Toronto in advance of anything beyond one man's "understanding". Crumbs, don't you folk have better things to do.

Michael Carter's twitter feed says otherwise!

Someone questioned his integrity and honesty, so he called them out.

Have a look in his tweets/replies.

Come on Brian Noble, stop crying about Toronto Globetrotters travelling costs, and get your boss to pay Wakefield Trinity the money that they owed.

Thanks for directing me to that page. Happy to stand corrected if it's true, but why would it get leaked to a local journalist instead of being dealt with directly?

How the journo found out, I have no idea (and neither do you), but that's certainly not Carter's MO.

Pretty standard for sports clubs to leak things to local journalists all the time. Puts more pressure on the RFL to actually do something about it if the public know about it.

Michael Carter confirmed the fee has been paid and everyone is happy again.

Let me guess, he's available for Saturday ironically as you had both your starting wingers crocked on Sunday - all very convenient

Only one reason this was leaked to the press. To sully the good name of Toronto Wolfpack. He should get his own house in order first

Regards

King James