Always a Wasp
General Category => Wasps Rugby Discussion => Topic started by: Neils on October 21, 2022, 12:56:55 PM
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https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/saracens-exeter-chiefs-line-up-25319490
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Baxter raiding us
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Do Exeter have the need for injury cover or doesn't it matter now
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I can't blame them. Baxter however has fallen into the gutter in my estimation.
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I can't blame them. Baxter however has fallen into the gutter in my estimation.
Down the bloody drain in the gutter.
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He was never above it.
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Salary cap, what Salary cap..??
More P share dosh for Baxter and chums, more players too.
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That is why he has been asking for a salary cap increase, as he can't wait to get his hands on ours and Worcester's P share
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And why shouldnt these guys find new jobs ? ..... Agents will have been out there finding them work and quite right too ....... If anyone has listened to Vaughan on the rugby pod will have heard that many of them are not being offered their worth .... but needs must if they have family ..... good luck to them.
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Don’t think you’ll find a single poster who doesn’t wish the players well. The ire is directed at Baxter who needn’t have said anything but did.
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Yeah, I think we all wish them well. But I would happily wish bankruptcy on those 4 clubs trying even now to increase the cap.
We need a reset button.
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Agreed. Single wealthy benefactors aren’t forever.
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Agreed. Single wealthy benefactors aren’t forever.
It feels like all professional sport is built on very wealthy owners willing to invest large sums of money when required
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Given the amount of players who were unable to get a club at the end of last season, I'm staggered so many of our players were able to find clubs. Hint of sarcasm, but also genuinely surprised.
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It feels like all professional sport is built on very wealthy owners willing to invest spend large sums of money when required
Fixed that for you wasps.
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It feels like all professional sport is built on very wealthy owners willing to invest spend large sums of money when required
Fixed that for you wasps.
So very very true
Thank you
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But surely there is a limit to what even the wealthiest is willing to lose?
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But surely there is a limit to what even the wealthiest is willing to lose?
Yeah, definitely.
But in a world where a single premiership footballer earns £5m per year, and the very best earn 3x or 4x that figure, plus they have £30m+ transfer fees, then the cost to run an entire rugby club is practically inconsequential.
That being said, someone coming in to own wasps would surely only do it if they had a love for the club already.... And I feel that there aren't any people with that kind of disposable income who love wasps
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There are limits. What sticks rather - is being told elsewhere that we only went under due to poor financial management. From fans of clubs where their particular "sponsor" just wrote off any debts....Which is hardly good financial management.
I've stopped trying to correct - it was doing my had in!
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It’s a good point Mike. The naivety of the clubs propped up by benefactors is amazing. Firstly they are the least sustainable clubs. Secondly they are part of the reason others become less sustainable and thirdly they don’t recognise that their actions will eventually kill the game. Maybe it’s time for a football style financial fair play where only an agreed multiple of income is allowed on expenditure. If nothing else it will give those who circumvent the cap a new ruse to work on.
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It’s a good point Mike. The naivety of the clubs propped up by benefactors is amazing. Firstly they are the least sustainable clubs. Secondly they are part of the reason others become less sustainable and thirdly they don’t recognise that their actions will eventually kill the game. Maybe it’s time for a football style financial fair play where only an agreed multiple of income is allowed on expenditure. If nothing else it will give those who circumvent the cap a new ruse to work on.
Do you honestly think the vested interests will allow change?
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Not a chance.
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It’s a good point Mike. The naivety of the clubs propped up by benefactors is amazing. Firstly they are the least sustainable clubs. Secondly they are part of the reason others become less sustainable and thirdly they don’t recognise that their actions will eventually kill the game.
Thanks Shugs - it's mainly been EA's fans - and I try and ignore them.....according to them they are the victims now. It certainly seems beyond them and others to realise what the situation is. I have a little more time for Bath.....their operating loss (least that reported in local press) was not far off the cost of putting up temp stands....but even with decent crowds, they rely upon Bruce. And on the odd occasion that a nearby STH offers a seat - Bath's nice enough for a pint!
But if Bath are struggling to cover costs with decent support (last pre covid better than us and without the "finances" issues) that sells near out most games, then rugby is in a hole. Without those outside funds.