Waterloo

Ilkley are a CASC and don't pay players and I believe Sandal and Billingham don't either.

Suppose I have...haha. all I was thinking was, this boy is steady with the odd top performance & no more. What i was thinking is this, look at their 1st team squad, now if 6-8 are on this money, then the next 6 are on half that & the rest are on expenses, that all adds up to a fair amount.

And add to that 50k on a new drainage for the first XV pitch (no laughing in Sandal please ) plus a further half amount again for drainage for pitches 2/3/4 and a new pitch 5. This on the back of last seasons new electronic scoreboard, solar paneling in the club house plus all new highly efficient electrics and lighting and a total revamp of our club house thanks mainly to our sponsors. Finally and not forgetting preparation work on the south terracing for a new covered stand opposite the main stand. We do put a more than a tad into the fabric of club rather than just contracts.

One things for sure we pay what we can afford and always have done but we have greater balance on investment structure into the club and facilities.

Max and Tom are very welcome at the club as are the other 13 new signings this season.

Good luck to Loo and all clubs this coming season

All the best

ST

Edited by Sedge Tiger - 19 Aug 2016 at 13:20

HM

Not sure if your implying any irregularity but to be clear, Sedge have always done everything by the book and what is legally required.

I may also add unlike some clubs you may know who sign players on mass in pre-season but once the any hope of promotion had gone by January severed the contracts of the same players. We have always honoured contracts.

The latter point may not happen at this level but used to be pretty common in level 2 and 3 when we were there.

Anyway

All the best

ST

Edited by Sedge Tiger - 19 Aug 2016 at 13:10

Not implying any irregularities from my side ST. Don't think u get big crowds to pay the bills, so you must have a fantastic marketing department to enable all this to happen, just wondering if Loo could take em on loan for a month to show our guys how its done. Best of luck this season, Tom is a huge loss for us & will prove a hit at your place...I'm sure the money Max is getting will focus his efforts.

Edited by Loo fighters - 19 Aug 2016 at 13:55

Hold on! Sten started this thread to stop us hijacking all the other threads and its been hijacked by everyone else! is this a bit of a "taste of our own medicine" haha

Cancelled...they pulled out mate.

With a new coaching team at Waterloo of Director of Rugby Steve Wood and Head Coach Stuart Turner in place following the departure of Jan Van Deventer there has been much activity on the recruitment front.
Coming into the club are backs Sam Gee from rugby league championship side Oldham, Rhodri Carlton Jones from Sedgely Park, Robbie Walmsley returns to the club after university and will give added competition for the scrum half spot.
Also joining the squad are wingers Luke Nelson and George Kelly two England deaf internationals with brother Joe Kelly a youngster with loads of potential completing the line up in the backs.
The pack has also been bolstered with the signing of props Liam Launders who has had experience with Fylde, Hawick and Edinburgh Academicals and Dec McClements who joins from Caldy.
Backrowers Alex Tenev a Bulgarian international, Matt Tindall from Fylde and twin Tom who comes over from Ruskin Park complete the line up.
Out go James Smith who, following a knee reconstruction in 2015, has gone to Ormskirk as head coach. James Bramhall has moved nearer to home with Preston Grasshoppers with Tom Holloway and Max Scofic joining Sedgley Park.
Alick Croft and Freeman Payne have followed Deventer to Chester with Nick Richardson having completed his studies at Liverpool University back home in Newcastle.
"With so many changes to the squad the priority is to get off to as fast a start as possible", stated Woods. "We have had our fair share of injuries during the closed season, however, Corinne Allmark and Ray Bramford have been working hard to get them fit for the first game".
"Stu Turner is having a very positive influence and the players are responding to his very open and developmental style," the director of rugby continued. "Players are commenting on how much they are learning from him and have accepted his ‘no train, no game’ philosophy.
We are looking forward to a very positive campaign where we can build on the successes of the previous seasons.
Waterloo had a warm up game at home to Newport Salop which give the coaching team some idea of the potential within the squad and but unfortunately with both their other games although against Welsh outfit Brynaman and Fylde cancelled pre-season preparation matchwise has not worked out as planned.
"We could have done with those games," Turner admitted, "but we are where we are and with everything else going well we will begin the campaign with some confidence."
This Saturday they begin their campaign away at last season's North One East champions Doncaster Pheonix who are the amateur arm of championship club Doncaster Knights.
"They are an unkown quantity but coming up as champions they must be a pretty useful side but the cancelled matches apart our preparations have gone well and we will be up for the challenge."

With great respect that kind of player turnover at this level doesn't have many positives for me. Where are are the lads coming through from the junior section?

It looks like there is a coupe of colts training .has the captain been announced yet