I fully back the decision to stay part time. I've not noticed a difference in fitness levels & a reserve grade will offer a natural progression for our youngsters to develop.

Grow the club commercially & turn FT when we can afford it rather than gamble.

1 great season in 1998 wasn't worth 2 CVA's, annual bucket collections & that final super league season

Ill still go with the people we can afford and that Richard and the board think can strengthen us full time or part time. Just when we are getting back upto speed I'd hate us to change tact, stick to the plan I say, in 12 months time with the development we've already seen we may all be applauding the cautious costed approach. We haven't lost 3 on the bounce because we are part time, its because the other sides played better, our curve is still massively positive. We've waited this long, another 12 months banking the finances and building wont do any harm, if other clubs want to go boom or bust, good luck to em, they cant and wont all succeed.

No disrespect to anybody but perhaps the full time money doesn't add up to a day job and part time pay. If you're a teacher then that jib is going to last longer than playing RL so if it were me I'd being keeping that stability along with PT rugby money. If you're in a lower paid manual job then FT may well give you significantly more money over 5 or 6 years so you'd take it. As I don't know what jobs our players have then it's hard to quantify which way would be best but I'd hate to lose a good player on the basis of pushing him to FT.

Quote ="Norman Bates"No disrespect to anybody but perhaps the full time money doesn't add up to a day job and part time pay. If you're a teacher then that jib is going to last longer than playing RL so if it were me I'd being keeping that stability along with PT rugby money. If you're in a lower paid manual job then FT may well give you significantly more money over 5 or 6 years so you'd take it. As I don't know what jobs our players have then it's hard to quantify which way would be best but I'd hate to lose a good player on the basis of pushing him to ">FT.'" eusa_clap.gif" alt="eusa_clap.gif" title="CLAP" /> Agree, as some of us have previously posted. Although I so also recognise and understand why some people want to push on now, and ride the wave of optimism. There is a risk on not doing it now, of course there is, but as I've said on other threads I trust RM completely and if hes happy, im happy to go with it. The only risk I see with our cautious strategy is that SL Clubs come sniffing for Richard and poach him, and we lose our key man, but this is also a risk part time or full time. I expect more clubs to be full time next year, but having 10 or 11 clubs full time from SL and The Championship scrapping it out for 4 Qualifier places in SL means some of them will be scratching their heads next year thinking 'hmmm that was an expensive failure, what do we do now the numbers don't add up' and we know that road all too well. Now is not the time to lose half our squad (and a very promising one at that) because they cant afford to live off what we can currently offer.

Quote ="Norman Bates"No disrespect to anybody but perhaps the full time money doesn't add up to a day job and part time pay. If you're a teacher then that jib is going to last longer than playing RL so if it were me I'd being keeping that stability along with PT rugby money. If you're in a lower paid manual job then FT may well give you significantly more money over 5 or 6 years so you'd take it. As I don't know what jobs our players have then it's hard to quantify which way would be best but I'd hate to lose a good player on the basis of pushing him to ">FT.'" eusa_clap.gif" alt="eusa_clap.gif" title="CLAP" /> Agree, as some of us have previously posted. Although I so also recognise and understand why some people want to push on now, and ride the wave of optimism. There is a risk on not doing it now, of course there is, but as I've said on other threads I trust RM completely and if hes happy, im happy to go with it. The only risk I see with our cautious strategy is that SL Clubs come sniffing for Richard and poach him, and we lose our key man, but this is also a risk part time or full time. I expect more clubs to be full time next year, but having 10 or 11 clubs full time from SL and The Championship scrapping it out for 4 Qualifier places in SL means some of them will be scratching their heads next year thinking 'hmmm that was an expensive failure, what do we do now the numbers don't add up' and we know that road all too well. Now is not the time to lose half our squad (and a very promising one at that) because they cant afford to live off what we can currently offer.

Nobody expects us to walk blindly into it. Of course circumstances will govern however we need to be smart and more importantly, entrepreneurial.



Are the coaching staff full time BTW?

Ian Croad has said FT had been considered and RM had been asked and for now all parties agreed it wasn't right for the club at the moment and they are as aware as anyone to know where we are.



He also stated that the club would be doing all it could to be better placed both on and off the field for a future move towards it.