: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:10 pm  

Pemps wrote:

It was Warrington.

They played Warrington in Barcelona. I went

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:13 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Nothing yet. Didn't they play Cas there last year?

I don't think so. Putting 2 and 2 together it makes sense as us and Wire take the biggest support down there and they've already played Wire in Barcelona.

Have you been to Beziers?

[Pemps]

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:13 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

They played Warrington in Barcelona. I went

I really should learn to read before I post

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:18 pm  

Catalans played Hull in Beziers mid-August.

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:37 pm  

Odemwingie wrote:

I don't think anyone can be critisised for takng more money, it's their job.

The sad thing I think about Mason, SBW et al is that they could have been remembered as greats of the game but will now, largely, be forgotten.

I know they'll have fat bank balances to console themselves with, but they'd have been pretty well paid even if they'd stayed in League.

Look at SBW now - does anyone know where he is and what he's doing? Does he even know what he's doing? He's certainly not burning across the sky like the meteorite he was while in the NRL.

It's a sad waste of great talents that RL spent a lot of time and effort discovering and developing, and yet another price we pay for the 'equalising benefit' of the salary cap.

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:04 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

The sad thing I think about Mason, SBW et al is that they could have been remembered as greats of the game but will now, largely, be forgotten.

I know they'll have fat bank balances to console themselves with, but they'd have been pretty well paid even if they'd stayed in League.

Look at SBW now - does anyone know where he is and what he's doing? Does he even know what he's doing? He's certainly not burning across the sky like the meteorite he was while in the NRL.

It's a sad waste of great talents that RL spent a lot of time and effort discovering and developing, and yet another price we pay for the 'equalising benefit' of the salary cap.

Your point is proved by the fact I don't really care

I agree with the point about the SC. I actually now hate it.

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:37 pm  

I've nothing against the salary cap in theory but only if it works within the constraints of the other sports and activities competing for the same pool of players.

As the Guiness Premiership clubs are finding out no/very high salary cap in the Top 14 means the French clubs can offer so much more money, same with SL and the Guiness Prem.

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:40 pm  

Dei Morti Viventi wrote:

Has anyone heard of us playing Catalans in Beziers this time round?

Well, Catalan are playing one game there in 2010 and the word is that it will be against Wigan. They are 100% not playing a game in Spain.

: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:59 pm  

{Hogan} wrote:

Well, Catalan are playing one game there in 2010 and the word is that it will be against Wigan. They are 100% not playing a game in Spain.

Pity that I was hoping for a weekend in Barca

: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:24 pm  

wiganrlforever wrote:

Pity that I was hoping for a weekend in Barca

So was I.