germain wrote:Do you think that the financial constraints which limit our squad both in quantity (just 40 players) and quality (big salaries not resigned) are due to the SRU saving funds for the Super 6 ?
We'll see if it's Cockerill's personnal policy or not when we'll see the size of Glasgow's squad for next year.
I had understood, on fairly good authority, that the squad bill for the Pro teams was about £5.2m each. Bit surprised to read Mark Dodson saying - Offside Line interview on Super Six IIRC - that it was £4m+. Have to hope that was a misprint or that the MD was in error, it is not much more then the poor man of Wales, Dragons, or Benetton and Zebre, and substantialy less than our main Pro 14 rivals by a good margin.
We simply cannot fund our Pro teams at that minimalist level and expect them to be challenging for honours at the top end. Cockers has a big enough hill to climb anyway in reshaping the squad and I don't see how he can do it on that level of budget, anymore then Dave Rennie can at Glasgow.
Tell me it isn't true MD