Hey ask a question with A blindingly obvious answer guess what you get a blindingly obvious answer. It may well have been at start of season Mike E thought he had a bunch of players that could compete, or he had a bunch of players that he had to make competitive, he didn't, they under performed, so they have done sometthng about it. The club cannot force players to come, so it's built around whats ts available around London.

Great signing. Those in lower play off positions will begin to be a little concerned when our 3 recent acquisitions bed in. My preferred method of assembling a squad is its done over the closed season allowing for a big impactful start, some positivity and bigger crowds but this chaotic way of doing business may work. We’ll see.

BT think that's what we would all like! But things are as they are. On a positive with whare and Norman it's experience coming in. On the negative side it means a couple of local developed players miss out. Might mean we get a couple more games at end of the season with a pop at play offs

The way RL works is you need to hit form at the end of the season. Leeds have been crowned 'champions' from 5th. Mac once said when at Quins that he made a mistake by getting the team to fire from the start and couldn't keep it going all season.

There is a bit of a difference between having your squad peaking for the play offs and only realising half way through the season your squad is too to make them.

I think both you and WQ make good points. What I think we can agree on is the way we did business last season was unforgivable and we appear to have learned from that, although not perhaps all the lessons we should have and perhaps not quickly enough. After one and a half seasons of PT we appear now to have a reasonable sized, decent squad that should be top half of the league. Now we need to sort out fan engagement and expanding crowds.

Think we might need Tom Cruise for that.

Frankly who cares - if the local lads are good enough then they will play, if they are not ...... we are a professional (in the loosest sense) sports team.

Interesting comment reboot, so would you rather we went back to the days when we had maybe one or two london players in the 17, rather than the last game where I think we had 11 out of the 17

I am the biggest advocate for London products playing for London but based on evidence the odd one or two are SL standard, a few more are Championship standard and a lot are League 1 standard. So it depends what our aspications are. Two points 1) if they enhance the side then get them on there 2) the London junior league is contracting year on year, so at some point the conveyor belt will become a trickle

I'd rather we were in SL with 17 aussies and 5k fans than in level 2 with 500 at best.
Then again, I'll drink £5 red wine because it's wet rather than £25 bottles because of the label.....it comes down to taste and seeing our decline over the Hughes years has been an exercise in pain management as a fan.

Pain management.....anger management.......!

https://keighleycougars.uk/brenden-sant ... ve-cougars Wouldn't mind adding to our nice little Aussie/Italian collective

https://keighleycougars.uk/brenden-sant ... ve-cougars Wouldn't mind adding to our nice little Aussie/Italian collective

Sounds like he has an offer & besides you don't want to mention Broncos & stagnate in the same sentence.

Could be wrong, but I suspect the days of the Broncos making head turning offers are behind us.

Never underestimate the Gold Lounge offer, Sir!

Heading to York apparently.

Quality response DC and a timely reminder to all that GL tickets are still available and come with a one course buffet....and napkin.

Don't forget the padded seat and rarefied atmosphere.

Plenty of space to move around as well if you don’t like your seat, choose another no problem. Also exclusive card bar. Similar to the bar everyone else goes to but ‘exclusive’.

His head’s easily turned, unless I’ve missed something.

Nothing exclusive about having plenty of space to move around and change your seat

Gold and Silver tiers was usually pretty packed when we played at Ealing (apart from the covid season)....

Yep,season ticket holders no longer have the problem of guests being unable easily to sit next to them. The move was worthwhile after all

And now one of the coaching positions is filled with Rhys Lovegrove supporting Mikey. What the eff is going on ?