wolrab613 wrote:
you are correct, that is what he said. All his comments will do will ne to reignite the rumours and half truths. He should either do what he said he would do, ie say nothing. Or tell us the full truth.
Earlier in the thread I made a comment that both parties using the line of ‘personal reasons’ at some point needed to expand on it, seems Paul has done that but I do agree stop the 'smoking gun' type comments and say what it is!
In saying that I’m pleased there is nothing wrong with Paul or his family, with these comments I presume he’s also alerting clubs he is available.
The downside to this is that it looks like if second guessing (and everyone is) Head coach had a disagreement about perhaps player recruitment and player selection, it may have been minor it may have been major, Paul is his own man and I suspect it was his team or no team and both parties seem to have gone separate ways.
Regarding the Cap comments others have made I’m led to believe it was raised and can be checked by the RFL at any time so I have no fears on that, our gates have gone up consistently and the money we get compared to what we used to is significant however what I would say is its clear Derek has a lot of input on financial matters in terms of putting his hand in his pocket to buy players, I’ve no problem with that whatsoever so long as if we run at a loss for whatever reason we aren’t left with any debt.
Michael Norris is the chairmen and from when he started he pledged that he wouldn’t allow spending that would endanger our club long term whilst we pursued short term goals, whilst Derek's salesman background and larger than life character will always see him in the papers trying to promote our club I think Michaels occasional reassurance the club is on track and doing fine would quell a few nerves.
In fact my only concern this season is the age of the squad, as with no reserves I think we really do need to get a youth structure in place as we are now a buying club, having said that Derek has stated on more than one occasion that he intends to rectify that sooner rather than later.
In terms of where this leaves our club well personally I don’t think it effects anything on the field at all, the squad looks in good spirits and good shape with a good coaching team and personally the drama has added to the start of the season excitement, it will be really tough as every team will be looking at beating Leigh (especially the Yorkshire clubs who all hold firm together)but we have the team on & off the field to see our club progress.
Can’t wait, see you at Batley.
