The reason I ask is that in RLW today it has been reported that Craig Wilson (recruitment), Steve Litvensky <sp> (football manager) and 3 office girls have all been given the heave ho. Not to be replaced.
Reason given - no money
How is the Club travelling?
Performance and recruitment wise sh!thouse!
Last in First Grade and Under 20's.
We have basically signed a few "promising" young guys, a couple of fringe first graders and once again a few rejects that were not wanted by most other Clubs.
Financially?
We probably ran most home games at a loss because of poor crowds.
We still haven't got a major sponsor.
And we are looking at making a bit of dough on a rock concert. (Knowing our luck it will piss down that day.)
We haven't heard of any initiatives in taking any games away from Shark Park for a financial windfall apart from the Adelaide experiment again.
The Club is asking it's fans to once again dig deep to buy a plaque for the wall to bail it out of trouble. They might as well be calling it a tombstone!
Just take one look at the playing roster and you can see we are well under our salary cap by quite a bit. As an exercise compare it with say a Club like South Sydney. Look at who they currently have and who they've recruited and it's quite obvious we are operating under two very different set of financials. And they missed out on the 8 this year! Compare our roster to some of the top 4 Clubs and it's even scarier.
The other worrying thing is the turnover of people at the Club. The turnover of board members, administration and players at the Club in the last 3 seasons has been horrendous.
We are the new transit lounge Club in the NRL.
Absolutely no stability and for the best part absolutely no idea about it's future on and off the field.
