the artist wrote:here's a link to the cobblers football message board. there's a couple of threads about the new team which on the whole are very positive, with quite a few declaring they will attend some of the games, and find it better to watch than union etc. i was going to post and inform them of the existence of this forum but don't really want to put them off at this early stage To the RL fans who've signed up and started posting about things like licensing criteria and fan demographics etc, that's probably one of the best ways to alienate new people from the sport. It's a football message board, let them develop an interest and get into RL at their own pace.

the artist wrote:here's a link to the cobblers football message board. there's a couple of threads about the new team which on the whole are very positive, with quite a few declaring they will attend some of the games, and find it better to watch than union etc. i was going to post and inform them of the existence of this forum but don't really want to put them off at this early stage To the RL fans who've signed up and started posting about things like licensing criteria and fan demographics etc, that's probably one of the best ways to alienate new people from the sport. It's a football message board, let them develop an interest and get into RL at their own pace.

So you are expecting in 15 months Northampton to rock up with 25 C1 quality players from around the Northampton area? You are expecting Northampton to operate under circumstances and limitations you expect of nobody else?

Just another example of your "im no against expansion as long as they arent allowed to actually compete with my club" standpoint.

Is this the part where you have lost the argument so you pretend to be confused until you can change it? Or do you really not understand why we would use the word if?

The fact you specifically mentioned SL players is the reason I thought we were discussing SL players.

well i would look at the clubs in C1 and the championship and look at what proportion of their squad was made up of players from the heartlands but not from their academies. For instance, if we look at Leigh from last season they had 11 players who had come through local SL clubs academies, or 44% of their playing squad. The Championship Salary cap is £300k, So we know that Leigh (if, for ease, we use them as the average) spend roughly £132k or an average of £12k on these players. If Northampton were to have an equal chance of competing for these players, they would (IMO) need to be paying them at least £18k, for them to even think about leaving their home towns and dragging their families across country. This would mean that as an allowance for distance, Northampton would receive a £66k or 22% increase in Salary Cap at Championship level. If they were to do this, it would still mean however, that they needed to find 14, part-time local based players to fill out a 25 man squad, which would clearly be an outstanding acheivement for an expansion side in their first few years of existance.anywhere.

No I said " the best young talent " , never mentioned SL players

Sorry , I forgot about the ' If ' word , so that just falls into the same catagory as ' if ' your auntie had a dick , they'd be your uncle , but they dont , so they aren't

So you want something that doesn't exist , fantastic argument

no, you said Are you now trying to argue that the best young talent picked up by SL clubs, who play for SL clubs arent Sl players?

No, if you read back, you will understand. Well i hope you would, but considering the level of deliberate stupidity you have shown before i dont hold out much hope.

Only the ones who go on to play for SL clubs on a regular basis , the others that dont aren't SL players , thats why they end up back in the Championships

What % of juniors that play Scholarship and academy at SL clubs go on to have genuine SL careers ? , it isn't the fault of Championship clubs that SL clubs cannot make the best juniors into SL players , the Championship clubs have to make do with 3/4/5 th best to produce their players without the ' facilities ' that SL clubs have available , like grass , balls and cones