Gansons optition has just put this on the wire board:



According to Gareth Walker (League Express Championship correspondent this morning-

Clarity from Swinton on tomorrow's squad- young wolves Shaw, Morrison, Mendieka, Riley and Ormsby have signed permanent Lions deals


This has left me even more bewildered as to what the hell is going on, but it would seem that the above are no longer Warrington players. Who is paying their wages/fees, how long they are contracted for and whether Warrington have first dibs to sign them back I do not know. It would seem the only way they will be able to play for Warrington would be a (minimum) one month loan from Swinton.

What an absolute mess.

Making it up as they go along (Swinton/RFL, not Gareth!)

I've never known a topic on here where everyone agrees so much.

...except the folk who make the decisions.

Let's be honest. if they can only really afford to sign on 17 players they shouldn't have a place in The Championship.

the likes of Morrison, Morty and Cuniffe have gone to play down under probably due to Swinton not offering them a contract...

not blamin for anythin matt his job is to bring this kind of info the open.
edit soz matt just re.read what you wrote and understood it clearer.

thats hard to believe

What do you mean? All three are over in Aus.

Workington have 3 Widnes players in their side tomorrow, Davies, Kavanagh and another.

PLease dont tell me your stupid enough to think these boys really went to aus cos swinton let em go

I'm not stupid no but perhaps the piddlely amount of money offered to sign may have convinced them there was nothing to hold them back . Ps I don't like your tone John

Ok i used the wrong word, and i wasn't accusing Leyther til death of being stupid (i think he's quality poster) i just found it hard to believe that he believed those boys went to aus cos of the reason you posted.

Good luck to those lads,i hope they have a better quality of life over there and enjoy there rugby.

Well the rules/loopholes need urgent attention, not that the RFL will be in any rush.
Regards Swinton Wolves they did n`t have the proverbial POT a few weeks back and can now afford 10 or so Wire players?
Maybe we should see if their accountant is available?

and if Warrington want to give them a run out in the 1 st team they will simply loan them back

All this could have been done at any time in the past , no new rules have been used , just the will to use them this way

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/27 ... -timelines Iv'e only looked at it once but i think the rfl have clarified there position on this.

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/27 ... -timelines Iv'e only looked at it once but i think the rfl have clarified there position on this.

Well if Wigan are already in partnership with South Wales does,nt that mean we can't loan players off them has they are in cahoots with the Welsh

They're in champ 1 and they're a devolopement area so i think the rules are different.

I think the RFL needed to take a close look at what happened in the Championship and SL last season as they seem confused...............
- The Championship was the one that you couldn't predict the score before a ball was kicked.
- The Championship was the one where no-one knew who would win the GF or the NRC.
- The Championship was the most competitive wide open league in Britain.

So what do they do.....
- Expand it thus creating easy matches and runining week to week intensisty - as per SL.

- Put in a Top 8 system for the Play offs thus ensuring underperforming teams can reach the play offs and the top teams can pick and choose matches they need to put a full squad out for - as per SL.

- And the best to last, (as SL clubs know the RFL are leaderless) they accept the SL clubs self interest and greed and effectively see the Youngsters of the game frozen out (and a overall reduction in players playing RL) , thus we now have Training clubs who are basically reserve teams in everything by name playing in the Championship on borrowed time.

The Championship clubs needed the RFL's help with raising those teams profiles in the towns and cityies they played in, perhaps guidance on how to build the competitons up and expand it sensibly ,not just plonking 4 teams who are effectively amateur clubs in a Semi Pro league in one go, maybe one at a time over each season to see how it goes.
The Championship owners (in fairness to the RFL) are not known as a collective of forward thinkers and suffer extreme short sightedness so a strong guiding Governing body was really needed here - the Champinship owners (like their SL counterparts) voted theses idiotic ideas in but a strong governing body would have been alerted at the huge risks associated with it and not allowed our game to be risked this way.

In effect the RFL have created a monster which they are now powerless to stop and as the governing body have indirectly signed the end of a huge amount of Semi Pro clubs, the loss of thousands of youngsters from SL clubs , open age players from the Championship and also (no doubt) will see the overall interest in the game drop as fans of Championship clubs won't all of a sudden think 'oh I love RL , I'll go and watch my local SL team instead - they (and the SL owners - along with some inept Championship owners) clearly have no idea why a fan in South Leeds chose to follow Hunslet Hawks rather than Leeds Rhino's.

If it was all about seeing SL 'Quality players' Mr Rimmer the Hunslet fan in South Leeds would have gone to Headingley years ago to watch Leeds.

Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518

Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518

Quote ="j.c"Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518'" Surely it should be at the KC?!

Quote ="j.c"Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518'" Surely it should be at the KC?!

They're sharing the same bitch!

Hunslet try to justify the reason they are playing Leeds Rhino's players........... www.hunslethawks.co.uk/news-327- ... ement.html

Hunslet try to justify the reason they are playing Leeds Rhino's players........... www.hunslethawks.co.uk/news-327- ... ement.html

In other words they are sheep following the crowd who either have no brains or don't give a damn about the state of the game as long as they are ok. I will not be spending anymore of my cash at their place untill this tripe ends.

Whitehaven can poke it also. They are a bunch of tools to.

Quote ="Leyther_Matt" Quote ="j.c"Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518'" This is dreadful after all the miles Gateshead have to travel every other week to lose one ofbtheir home games is terrible , how can they survive when there's 9 teams in their league now just 7 home games! Surely it should be at the KC?! '"

Quote ="Leyther_Matt" Quote ="j.c"Theres an irony in this one. After announcing they were linking with HKR and apparently having the HKR badge on the shirt sleeve,they are now playing a game a HKR. www.thunderrugby.com/article.php?id=10518'" This is dreadful after all the miles Gateshead have to travel every other week to lose one ofbtheir home games is terrible , how can they survive when there's 9 teams in their league now just 7 home games! Surely it should be at the KC?! '"