Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 2:37 pm  

He said YOU don’t hear about them,

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 2:41 pm  

Just small things he does, visits dropping shirts and taking community rugby sessions.

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 3:24 pm  

Those sessions that he quietly plasters all over social media and each child gets a t shirt with his face on it?

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 3:40 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Just small things he does, visits dropping shirts and taking community rugby sessions.

is this the community rugby sessions that he started then by week 3 it looked like (to a cynical eye) he had goodwin and clark running for him?

Akouala does a load of stuff charity wise, he was helping out with all the food bank stuff last year, he's religious though, and on a hell of a lot less money than austin.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 3:42 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

He said YOU don’t hear about them,

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 3:42 pm  

ratticusfinch wrote:

Those sessions that he quietly plasters all over social media and each child gets a t shirt with his face on it?

aye, team austin

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 7:00 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Austin is a lovely fella to talk with and does a lot of things you don’t hear about in the community. He does it without wanting ‘look at me’ attention. However, has he returned a show for £1m of salary during his tenure. No I have to say.
Yep I know not Clark but all the threads are growing a root system at the mo.
Good that we’ve so much to talk about. Following on from Deus Dat Incr post.

Do we really pay him that much though, RD?

I agree he's not been a good return on investment since the second half of 2019. And I say that with a heavy heart for the reasons you stated. I hope he gets a decent gig as a super sub in the NRL. Moving forward I think we need a consistent young British half-back, and hopefully Powell has that person in mind.

Re: Daryl Clark : Tue May 04, 2021 11:16 pm  

easyWire wrote:

Do we really pay him that much though, RD?

I agree he's not been a good return on investment since the second half of 2019. And I say that with a heavy heart for the reasons you stated. I hope he gets a decent gig as a super sub in the NRL. Moving forward I think we need a consistent young British half-back, and hopefully Powell has that person in mind.

Somewhere over £300k per season.

Re: Daryl Clark : Wed May 05, 2021 5:29 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

Somewhere over £300k per season.

Ouch. No wonder Powell was brought in. The board probably think he can get three or four decent young British players producing the goods for that money.

Re: Daryl Clark : Wed May 05, 2021 7:49 am  

easyWire wrote:

Ouch. No wonder Powell was brought in. The board probably think he can get three or four decent young British players producing the goods for that money.

Unfortunately that’s a completely different discussion because paying British players more money doesn’t mean you will get stellar performances. I know RD will disagree but if you pay Dec P £1,000,000 you would not get anything different from him. Austin clearly hasn’t been value for money overall but just about every signing carries a risk of not working out. Some start off like a house on fire others get called fit to burn and then improve massively like Matt King and M Monaghan, no real way of knowing in advance which you will get.