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JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:55 am

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:39 am Fucking hell, that's a big error. 30 players out of contract due to an administrative error is awful.

Without knowing any of the regulations it feels like the sort of thing that should come with tangible league punishment for the club, like a 10 or 15 point handicap to start next season. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with treating players like this.

As a player it would certainly make me think thrice about heading to Bristol in future.

It's 30 players across the league, not at Bris alone

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:39 am Fucking hell, that's a big error. 30 players out of contract due to an administrative error is awful.

Without knowing any of the regulations it feels like the sort of thing that should come with tangible league punishment for the club, like a 10 or 15 point handicap to start next season. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with treating players like this.

As a player it would certainly make me think thrice about heading to Bristol in future.

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:54 am

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:14 am Talking of fuckups, Bristol have absolutely shit the bed: https://archive.ph/xUoJg

When the Premiership clubs voted two years ago to reduce the salary cap from £6.4 million to £5 million for the 2021-22 season, a lot of clubs, including Bristol, took advantage of a clause that allowed them to count 75 per cent of existing contracts against the revised cap.
In Bristol’s case, the majority of players signed “two plus one” deals, which is a two-year contract with an option of a third on the same terms unless either party decides to pull out by a set deadline. It is understood Bristol intended to release six players, whose contracts were worth an estimated £400,000. However, they missed the deadline, meaning the third-year extensions had already kicked in. A club spokesman declined to comment on Thursday night.
Even if those players are paid off, it is understood that would still count against the salary cap, so Bristol are now having to make savings wherever they can. Including their marquee players, Bristol had one of the biggest wage bills in the Premiership and an emergency board meeting was convened when the mistake came to light in March. They have also committed to signing England prop Ellis Genge and Sale fly-half AJ MacGinty for next season.
Yet offloading players is no simple matter. Many other clubs are struggling to balance the books with the “existing contract” clause coming to an end. It is estimated that up to 30 players could be left without a club this summer.

Bad news for a lot of blameless players

Sounds like a major fuck-up!
Can't be any of the "big names" though £400,000/6 is less than £70k a year?
Or am I rfeading it wrong?

Kawazaki wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:56 am

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:54 am

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:14 am Talking of fuckups, Bristol have absolutely shit the bed: https://archive.ph/xUoJg



Bad news for a lot of blameless players

Sounds like a major fuck-up!
Can't be any of the "big names" though £400,000/6 is less than £70k a year?
Or am I rfeading it wrong?

If it's 6x£400k (£2.4m) they need to trim off the wage bill to get under the new cap then Bristol are fucked.

Player contracts would definitely be within the overall remit of Pat Lam as DoR as well. He's really dropped the ball since he got that contract extension hasn't he.

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:20 pm Which ever way you look at it, it's still a mess for Bristol
Have to say I thought they may be the next in line after Saracens and Tigers

Kawazaki wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:35 pm

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:20 pm Which ever way you look at it, it's still a mess for Bristol
Have to say I thought they may be the next in line after Saracens and Tigers

The turnaround at Leicester under Borthwick has been truly remarkable. Saracens going straight back up to the sharp end after a year out is also fairly impressive.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:08 pm Late, no arms. Yellow minimum.

Edit - can't believe that's only a pen.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:39 pm Wonder if he was looking at an obstruction.

Ashman who went off at the ref couldn’t possibly have seen grounding or otherwise, these players need to start getting carded for that sort of carry on.

Davies a lucky man

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:45 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:39 pm Wonder if he was looking at an obstruction.

Ashman who went off at the ref couldn’t possibly have seen grounding or otherwise, these players need to start getting carded for that sort of carry on.

Davies a lucky man

Sale are losing it a bit, to be honest they got the shitty end of a few decisions in the last ten minutes of that half but they will only make it worse if they go after the ref on the park

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:46 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:45 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:39 pm Wonder if he was looking at an obstruction.

Ashman who went off at the ref couldn’t possibly have seen grounding or otherwise, these players need to start getting carded for that sort of carry on.

Davies a lucky man

Sale are losing it a bit, to be honest they got the shitty end of a few decisions in the last ten minutes of that half but they will only make it worse if they go after the ref on the park

Pretty much. Fwiw Curry was clearly in at the side on the one he was aggrieved at.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:35 pm Hard to say that’s not a fair result.

Underwhelming game. Yet another match where all momentum was killed by the scrums. OS is talking out his arse when he calls to scrap them but something needs to change there. We must have lost well over 10 minutes to setting up scrums and most didn’t end with the ball coming out the back.

Time has to be off until the ball is in and less time can be spent ‘setting’, just get on with it.

Earl excellent and has to be in the summer tour picture. Sale looked fluent when they finally decided to play rugby with the game over. Sarries showed Sale how to manage a ref, you’re professionals, don’t lose your head.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:35 pm Hard to say that’s not a fair result.

Underwhelming game. Yet another match where all momentum was killed by the scrums. OS is talking out his arse when he calls to scrap them but something needs to change there. We must have lost well over 10 minutes to setting up scrums and most didn’t end with the ball coming out the back.

Time has to be off until the ball is in and less time can be spent ‘setting’, just get on with it.

Earl excellent and has to be in the summer tour picture. Sale looked fluent when they finally decided to play rugby with the game over. Sarries showed Sale how to manage a ref, you’re professionals, don’t lose your head.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:35 pm Hard to say that’s not a fair result.

Underwhelming game. Yet another match where all momentum was killed by the scrums. OS is talking out his arse when he calls to scrap them but something needs to change there. We must have lost well over 10 minutes to setting up scrums and most didn’t end with the ball coming out the back.

Time has to be off until the ball is in and less time can be spent ‘setting’, just get on with it.

Earl excellent and has to be in the summer tour picture. Sale looked fluent when they finally decided to play rugby with the game over. Sarries showed Sale how to manage a ref, you’re professionals, don’t lose your head.

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:36 am

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:35 pm Hard to say that’s not a fair result.

Underwhelming game. Yet another match where all momentum was killed by the scrums. OS is talking out his arse when he calls to scrap them but something needs to change there. We must have lost well over 10 minutes to setting up scrums and most didn’t end with the ball coming out the back.

Time has to be off until the ball is in and less time can be spent ‘setting’, just get on with it.

Earl excellent and has to be in the summer tour picture. Sale looked fluent when they finally decided to play rugby with the game over. Sarries showed Sale how to manage a ref, you’re professionals, don’t lose your head.

Sarries know how to win, even if it is ugly, thats what will win them the title this year

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:12 pm How has Sheedy ever managed to steal international caps? He is fucking terrible.

Kawazaki wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:28 pm If Farrell made the tackle that Biggar made on Radradra the usual fishwives would have set this thread alight with indignation.

Nice consistency fellas.

Kawazaki wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:47 pm Got two streams going here and just saw a Cambridge Uni lock get sent off for the most obvious red card you'll ever see. The player is a complete idiot and thug clearly not used to playing with cameras and a TMO.