Championship 2022-2023 signings and departures

Great retention from Cov with Jordan Poole was great at DMP I think he will end up as a premiership player certainly has all the attributes 

Uzokwe was in the Championship dream team, garnering over half the votes. He regularly looks the best player on the pitch.

May be true, but he was on 45k a year at Bedford.

There was a stage when Bedford did train during the day however i think this was pre-covid.

Semi-pro vs pro has nothing to do with what you pay players. At least not in my view. It’s whether your team consists of full time professionals who’s sole income is from Rugby, or whether it consists of part time players who supplement their rugby income with other jobs. At no point since the Frank Warren era have Bedford ever been a full time club or trained as a team during the days in the week. I’m amazed how often I’ve clarified this over the years. There have been players who have chosen to focus solely on rugby and do individual gym/analysis sessions etc in the day, but at no point during the Championship era have we ever trained more than 3 nights a week as team. I’m also not clear how you are privy to Rich Lane’s salary given this would be confidential information not in the public domain (I’ve certainly got no idea if that figure is correct or not).

Anyway way off topic now so will try and end this so people can get back to signings. 

Edit: I have googled the definition of semi pro and it basically fits what I described above:

“receiving payment for an activity but not relying entirely on it for a living; semi-professional”

Player retires from professional rugby and returns to former club in a player-coach capacity.  Nothing to see here.