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Thread: Looking forward

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
    With any club it?s not just player wages it?s the overall wage bill that includes the behind the scenes activities

    As Man Utd show by axing non- player jobs

    At RUFC we pay people that never kick a ball nor have match day activities
    A drop in the ocean though Grist. Again, if it's reported correctly I bet what we pay one player covers the salaries of 25 of our non-playing staff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CAMiller View Post
    A drop in the ocean though Grist. Again, if it's reported correctly I bet what we pay one player covers the salaries of 25 of our non-playing staff.
    Maybe, but it?s still an expense we could do without

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
    With any club it?s not just player wages it?s the overall wage bill that includes the behind the scenes activities

    As Man Utd show by axing non- player jobs

    At RUFC we pay people that never kick a ball nor have match day activities
    Yes and a lot of those are on the field ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tigerish View Post
    Evans didn't sign all of those mentioned but Raggett Kelly JCH Dawson James have been a waste of money. If I were TS I'd be having our recruitment team in for a cosy little chat along with the manager. How much are they earning do you think?
    all but hugebill remember?

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    These are not the types of players that scott would have gone out and found on his own.

    Known and used by evans before:
    Harris
    James
    Little henry
    Holmes hardly needed sherlock to find him, found by playing his team!
    Any others?

    Dawson and wilkes were hardly a difficult find.

    Evans is on record as going direct to agents. Cmon wake up, smell the plot. He also, used maybe still uses his own brother!!

    Evans, we are talking about someone who I can imagine would not let someone boil his own egg.

    As to other managers getting more out of these players, I would say they this. Good players cannot be wrecked to this degree surely?

    Mucked about i would give you. Can you imagine the dressing room?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tigerish View Post
    Evans didn't sign all of those mentioned but Raggett Kelly JCH Dawson James have been a waste of money. If I were TS I'd be having our recruitment team in for a cosy little chat along with the manager. How much are they earning do you think?
    If it?s above the national minimum wage it?s daylight robbery.

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    Do you realise evans won’t stop until every player who he didn’t bring it won’t be here. Many of those he does gets discarded or not played.

    All contracted players prior to coming are either being sold off, or not given contracts. All the favourites well thought of on here are disappearing.
    Players who played ok under previous managers, esp the better warne ones either went or had to go due to money, yet supposedly some of these currently are costing just as much as players before!

    It all doesn’t make sense other than clear the decks because the big ego wants all the glory ( slipped up on that one hasn’t he )

    He is now saying he would offer 2 warne signings outstanding a contract. Since he knows TS has them earmarked for sales, it’s a good way of not seemingly taking the flak when they go.

    Believe what you want. We all can grasp at straws and hope somethings won’t happen, but the evidence is there.

    Managers dictate who they want or any type of player profile. Evans clearly does personally.
    Last edited by Millmoordays; 02-03-2025 at 10:46 PM.

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    Amazed Kelly got a 2 year contract that's not good business at all. Of the players out of theirs this summer Mcdonald & Green can go. Obvious ones unlikely to stay who'll go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CAMiller View Post
    I was never a PW evangelist but I'm pretty sure with this set of players he might not have us challenging the top 3 but we'd be in and around the playoff places.
    As someone else has said, I doubt he'd have many of these here to start with, but I do think he'd have gotten far more out of them. The quality we're seeing from some of the teams we're up against is almost jarringly poor. Any manager able to either get a system which suits us, or to get the players mentally ready to walk through walls, would be 8th, 7th or above. Any who was able to do a bit of both and we'd be coasting in a play-off place.

    Maybe it's rose-tinted glasses, but I don't remember so many on/off injuries under PW either - I can't convince myself that two years of that isn't somehow connected to the manager, even if other factors are at play. I'd love to get an account of what the general atmosphere is like in the changing room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RU66 View Post
    Amazed Kelly got a 2 year contract that's not good business at all. Of the players out of theirs this summer Mcdonald & Green can go. Obvious ones unlikely to stay who'll go.
    Kelly hasn't played more than half the games in his previous four years. I'd be interested to know if he's on a performances related deal, or assumed to be brought in to assist with coaching on some level. I know we drop some clangers, but surely Kelly wasn't brought in on a standard two year deal.

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