If Tony Rea (or whoever is head coach) will be doing a ring round on Saturday lunch time trying to get a team out for the home match that day. Brings back happy days of my amateur days.

I noticed that as well chief, but i suspect something must be wrong. Anyone paying 630 a week for anywhere in "hull docklands (class that by the way!) is probably southern and stupid

If it was Batley Broncos, they would be left to die.

Surely you can understand the strategic difference between a club in Batley and a club in London.

Personally I think the OP is fishing.

Given that the Broncos have never finished last and have not gone out of business I fail to see any validity in the calls to chuck them out.

That aside, if Broncos could spend £2m a year, would the backers be able to stump up the cash????

It's one thing to suggest a club be given a higher cap, but they still have to find the cash to pay it!

Personally a 10% weighting for London does not seem to out of line. What's the % London weighting in private industry? How much more to you get as a lawyer, accountant in London, compared to us Northerners?

Bugger








That's what you get for sampling home distilled scotch at lunchtime.....bloody kiwi's...Imagine letting people distil their own spirits...not going to end well.


...I suppose they think the monthly 100 litre limit is a deterrent.



Anyhoo.....found this.
[urlhttp://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-33282310.html[/url
...that's better

And only 5 minutes walk from the KC stadium. Result!!

I thought it was very cheap....^^^^^ explains it

12 months ago what did Bradford have?

Were they booted out?

more than they have now

A fan base?
Hope?
A future?

an iconic ground.....although the lease on it didn't belong to them.

So no ground then which is an argument thrown at London. Anyone can rent a ground. London could probably use Wembley as there home ground if they were willing to pay for it.

The only thing that's cheap on here is you.

Players?
Somewhere to actually host games?
Support of the wider RL community?

6 players (nearly half a team!)
The Hive
The 'wider RL community' can suck my

I'm worth every penny

That's actually not many houses away from where I was born(though was only there 9 months)

, as for the comments that an extra 10% on the cap is suffice for london to be on level pegging, it doesn't even touch the sides.
It shows just out of touch these bloody Northerners are outside their own postcodes

Out of touch???? You mean we don't know the cost of living in London. Do you know the cost of living in Glasgow????

It's not about being out of touch, it just means you don't live there!!!

If you do a search on jobs you will see this London weighting is harder to pick out than people say. The difficultly is that not all jobs are the same, however a quick search.

Warehouse Operative
Warehouse Operative
Transline•£7.65 - £10.25 Castleford, Yorkshire


Warehouse Operative
Warehouse Operative
Transline•£7.00 - £8.96 Hemel Hempstead, HC





Maintenance Electrician
RJN Selection•£30,000 - £35,000
22 days ago
Wakefield, Yorkshire


Maintenance Electrician
Maintenance Electrician
RJN Selection•£30,000 - £35,000
22 days ago



Like I say it's only a snap shot but as far as I can see it's only the public sector that has this London weighting in any fixed fashion. In the Private sector it's not as clear cut, so maybe it's those who have a London weighting who are out of touch and don't realize not everyone gets this privilege.

Or maybe not every Northern town is the same, we do have the internet and electricity nowa days you know sirs!!!

yeah....that's it

There is no doubt London is more expensive than the North. However as we are playing these games if you search for a 3 bed house to rent within 10 miles of LB training base in Roehampton they start at 450pcm.

Hemel isn't in London for what it's worth

Like I said it's a snap shot, there will be businesses with a London weighting, but not everyone gets it.

So those arguing a 10% cap increase is not enough, I'd like to know what they are using as their guide for London weighting.

Also with London losing so much money already it's not even certain they could afford a higher cap level and whether that would bring the punters in.

There is no denying that London is more expensive, but what arbitary amount you allow more than the rest of the clubs is not straight forward.

Hemel hemptead may not be in central London but then neither was twickenham. It was a 5 minute search on Monster to see what the increase in wages would be for similar jobs. You have to be specific though as not all accountants are the same etc, so that's why I went for 2 jobs but ones that are homogenous in terms of work.

If you look at house prices then you could say double the salary cap easily. But house prices are not the only thing in a basket of goods when you look at price differences between north and south.

Well it started off with someone calling for them to have an allowance, then when pointed out that they get preferential treatment from the rfl it was suggested a 10% salary cap advantage wasn't enough. Given the club is broke, have disastrous owners and No fans they could be given double the salary cap and it wouldn't help them.