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    Posted: 15 Apr 2025 at 14:20
Doncaster Knights starting early again

Thom Smith staying at the knights for 25/26 season


Could this be pinned as per usual

Or are we having a different section?


Edited by KnightsBoy - 15 Apr 2025 at 14:23
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Chinnor have so far confirmed the following are re-signed for 25/26:-
Robin Hardwick, Kieran Goss, Conor Brockschmidt, Thomas Watson, Scott Hall, Morgan Passman, Grant Hughes, Luke Carter and Cameron Rafferty
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Moving this here:

Joel Matavesi is to leave Blues at the end of the season for France National 1 side Bourg-en-Bresse, to join his brother.

Apparently there could be quite a few leaving at the end of the season, which is a shame as we have built up a decent squad with no weak links.
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Zach Kerr has signed for another year at Doncaster
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Dan Hiscokxs renews at Cornish. Some chatter of him going to Wales but hasn't happened.
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Josh Caulfield supposedly departing Bears in the summer to sign for Ealing on a lucrative salary by Championship standards.

RugbyPass report he is set to sign for Championship leaders Ealing Trailfinders on a deal worth £90,000 a season when his contract with Bristol expires in the summer. Ealing's owners continue to put together a squad that can compete with Premiership sides, as demonstrated in the Premiership Rugby Cup where they reached the semi-finals, but once again Trailfinder's have failed the stadium criteria to be candidates for promotion into the top flight next season.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/bristol-bears-transfer-rumour-latest-10093888.amp


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Originally posted by Se7en Se7en wrote:

Josh Caulfield supposedly departing Bears in the summer to sign for Ealing on a lucrative salary by Championship standards.

RugbyPass report he is set to sign for Championship leaders Ealing Trailfinders on a deal worth £90,000 a season when his contract with Bristol expires in the summer. Ealing's owners continue to put together a squad that can compete with Premiership sides, as demonstrated in the Premiership Rugby Cup where they reached the semi-finals, but once again Trailfinder's have failed the stadium criteria to be candidates for promotion into the top flight next season.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/bristol-bears-transfer-rumour-latest-10093888.amp

Then, sorry to ask or to appear thick, what's the point?


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Originally posted by Nosides Nosides wrote:

Originally posted by Se7en Se7en wrote:

Josh Caulfield supposedly departing Bears in the summer to sign for Ealing on a lucrative salary by Championship standards.

RugbyPass report he is set to sign for Championship leaders Ealing Trailfinders on a deal worth £90,000 a season when his contract with Bristol expires in the summer. Ealing's owners continue to put together a squad that can compete with Premiership sides, as demonstrated in the Premiership Rugby Cup where they reached the semi-finals, but once again Trailfinder's have failed the stadium criteria to be candidates for promotion into the top flight next season.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/bristol-bears-transfer-rumour-latest-10093888.amp

Then, sorry to ask or to appear thick, what's the point?

From what I gather, he wants more game time which is fair enough as I imagine he still has a good few more years in him. He had 100 caps with Pirates over a 6 year period in the Championship before going to Irish and then Bears. Good quality to have back in the Championship.

As to the why, Bears have signed Argentinian international second row Pedro Rubiolo from Newcastle for next season. With his arrival, I doubt Caulfield would get enough of a look in on match days.

Edit - apologies, just thought did you mean 'what's the point' if they can't get promoted anyway? 

If so, that would be better for an Ealing supporter to answer rather than for me to speculate on. He will certainly add even more experience to their pack for next season though.


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Josh is a great player, he was brilliant for Pirates and we were very sad to see him go. Lovely bloke, too. Good luck to him.
Having said that, I can't understand why Ealing keep spending eye-watering amounts of money to build such a high quality squad when they have no prospect of promotion.
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Originally posted by Se7en Se7en wrote:

Originally posted by Nosides Nosides wrote:

Originally posted by Se7en Se7en wrote:

Josh Caulfield supposedly departing Bears in the summer to sign for Ealing on a lucrative salary by Championship standards.

RugbyPass report he is set to sign for Championship leaders Ealing Trailfinders on a deal worth £90,000 a season when his contract with Bristol expires in the summer. Ealing's owners continue to put together a squad that can compete with Premiership sides, as demonstrated in the Premiership Rugby Cup where they reached the semi-finals, but once again Trailfinder's have failed the stadium criteria to be candidates for promotion into the top flight next season.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/bristol-bears-transfer-rumour-latest-10093888.amp

Then, sorry to ask or to appear thick, what's the point?

From what I gather, he wants more game time which is fair enough as I imagine he still has a good few more years in him. He had 100 caps with Pirates over a 6 year period in the Championship before going to Irish and then Bears. Good quality to have back in the Championship.

As to the why, Bears have signed Argentinian international second row Pedro Rubiolo from Newcastle for next season. With his arrival, I doubt Caulfield would get enough of a look in on match days.

Edit - apologies, just thought did you mean 'what's the point' if they can't get promoted anyway? 

If so, that would be better for an Ealing supporter to answer rather than for me to speculate on. He will certainly add even more experience to their pack for next season though.

We don't get it either.
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Joe Jones and Russell Bennett staying another year at Donny
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I'm guessing here, but as no club will be allowed in the cartel that is the premiership unless your "brand" is deemed worthy, Ealing might just want to be at the top of their own world outside of the RFU/PRL fantasy league.
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Originally posted by tigerburnie tigerburnie wrote:

I'm guessing here, but as no club will be allowed in the cartel that is the premiership unless your "brand" is deemed worthy, Ealing might just want to be at the top of their own world outside of the RFU/PRL fantasy league.


Fair point.
We at Pirates had aspirations to get into The Prem when it seemed to be a realistic and worthwhile aim. With the demise of the Stadium For Cornwall I am now of the opinion we dodged a bullet. The premiership is a basket case financially and the competition will become stale and boring with no relegation. I'm quite content for us to be a sustainable club at Championship level and hope to see investment in the infrastructure at The Mennaye as it is to be our long term home.
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But how many championship clubs are sustainable ? I would say most survive in the largess of a benefactor. Coventry seem to be the only rugby club building a truly sustainable model. A few others just live within their means . 
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Wrong thread but Blues are totally sustainable now and have been for 7 out of 8 years. Coventry are far from sustainable at present. They lost £956k in their last set of accounts on £2.2m turnover, Blues have a larger turnover of £2.7m.
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Originally posted by Runitback Runitback wrote:

But how many championship clubs are sustainable ? I would say most survive in the largess of a benefactor. Coventry seem to be the only rugby club building a truly sustainable model. A few others just live within their means . 

Please explain the difference between “truly sustainable “ and “living within their means.”
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Originally posted by Runitback Runitback wrote:

But how many championship clubs are sustainable ? I would say most survive in the largess of a benefactor. Coventry seem to be the only rugby club building a truly sustainable model. A few others just live within their means . 

But how many Premiership clubs are sustainable? An unsustainable Championship club would seem ideally qualified for the Premiership!
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Doncaster Knights are delighted to announce that Logovi’i Mulipola and Semesa Rokoduguni have re-signed for the 2025/26 season⚔️



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