If I had access to the underlying data, I could definitely do this; but… they almost certainly wouldn't give me access, because they know I'd do something like this!!

(It would be technically possible to scrape the data from the UI and create my own dataset, but likely illegal unfortunately.)

Some very odd phrasing and some even odder grammar.

Given that you are anyway (in practice) just asking a black box app who has won, this feels doable?

Sorry - forgot to click "Publish" again!! Should be sorted shortly.

Think that remains the longer term aim.

Think It's about the price. They might feel they can get them back for a price that's lesser than what they would have paid by retaining them... Ofcourse that's wishful in a way but still.. Also there is a possibility that they couldn't come to terms with the players and they wanted to go to auction

But seriously... yer.

Having already lost Davies to retirement, they really, really didn't need this.