No sign of it yet! Had 2 from Fulham & 1 from Quins today though.

Yep I got it. You’re on the blacklist DC. Just do what they say and you’ll be alright.
If I understand correctly they have 8 signed/ retained players not yet announced and som more to come.
Of last year’ squad one assumes Hanky has gone back to Wigan and Aston has been heavily linked with Halifax. That leaves Egodo, Moran, Sammut, Olsi K, Walters, Hindmarsh, Williams, Boafo & Varela. That’s 9- I’d be surprised if we had retained all those. Varela in some kind of loan deal with Skolars. No weak links there I think but retaining Walters and Sammut and Boafo would be particularly promising. However we do need some new decent Championship standard players to make up for those we have lost.....and only took us to 7th place ...so who knows what’s happening. It does look like we’ll be able to have a full 17 at least before injuries hit so that is a positive.

Isnt Olsi calling it a day??

Who knows. He got concussion a couple of games in and never played again although was regularly to be seen at games. It wouldn’t massively surprise me if he was kept on in a white collar type role- community engagement. I’d have thought if he was retiring LB would have announced that by now. No doubt all will become clear.

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did not get the email, but then we did not buy any memberships in 2021, so that is probably why

Must be off the banned list BT as it arrived in the early hours of this morning.

Maybe they are learning from some suggestions made on this forum in last few years!! However, bit I don't understand is they say they have signed up 20 players but have only announced a handful or so. Why the delay?

Yes I don’t either really. I can see they would want to keep their powder dry to an extent for some showpiece announcements ( in relative terms) but If it’s true then I would try and pulse out signings at the same rate as departures were announced. So yesterday they should have said congrats to Jordan on staying for another year or some such.

I like what I hear about our new signings but I am concerned that we now seem to be the top club for signing top L1 talent. It’s difficult not to be slightly apprehensive about that although these will undoubtedly be good hungry players but when you see who Leigh, Halifax and an ever increasing list of our competitors - Newcastle, York... are signing it’s difficult not to fear that if we come 8th next season that’s a pretty good outcome. If I understand correctly it’s looking like a 20 club two tier SL so we would need to come 8th at least to be in unless it’s done by licence.

PS thinking about it and our focus on youth I think many of these 20 players may be Academy prospects stepping up rather than current players being retained. I hadn’t thought of that before but that too has massive short terms challenges.

Looking at our current squad vs rest of championship, finishing 8th will be a stretch. Fev, Leigh, Fax, bradford, batley, newcastle, york, widnes are all superior to us right now, so thats top 8, so your looking at 9th at best, and I have a feeling at least one of the cumbrian clubs will over acheive again. So if SL2 is based on end of season placing, then it looks like a big ask right now

Sadly I think you are right Crash. We picked a terrible time to start spending nowt on players,

Rubbish...it's yet another masterstroke by Doddery Dave. He's really showing the RFL who is the man




Didn't get the email, but I do like the fact that the Monkey is using mailchimp.....it has a certain symmetry

Its not as if our timing has been impeccable for the last decade....

Nothing in my in-box, nor has there been for a long time now. Only to be expected, I guess.

Interesting, though, that they seem to want the LBSA to provide free labour given the Monkey's attempt to sideline that organisation last year.

You might think they would have spoken to the LBSA prior to releasing that statement but it would appear not from what you say. Lacks class if nothing else, but we knew that about the simian.

Is Milner still involved at the club ?

Yes.

Why ?

They might've spoke to them, I don't know, but either way it's a bit off given their recent behaviour. They come running when they need something.

I suspect that in the cold hard light of Day, they realise they are absolutely buggered without the hardcore supporters who they alienated.
Sad to say, but If I were still in the UK, I'd not cross the road to help them let alone the river. Too many times free help was offered and rejected.......

From the email sent on October 21st


So we can expect an announcement this week.....

More players be nice

FRIDAY OCTOBER 22, 2021

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7TH, 2021......some 17 days later


Will the club, or just those working (sic) there please learn that it is foolish to make assurances that you've no chance on intention of meeting!

Every day that passes, with another L1 grade player being signed and no information on anything in terms of where we will be playing, or the status of the aussies we are targeting is a day where another fan may become a lapsed fan.

Time to check the train timetable for trips to cornwall in 2023 methinx

Yup over promise under deliver is never any good. Bearing in mind they will want to sell STs shortly I assume they are holding back the 5/6? players we have on our books but have not announced. Let’s hope they wow us but I suspect a healthy proportion will be Academy players being given 1st team contracts.

To me its very simple. the have a circle they cannot square

1) They probably want to charge 25GBP for walk up price, so they can discount to 20GBP for ST (Members)
2) But last year showed that nobody will pay 20GBP for a team who will be battered week on week let alone 25GBP
3) So they might be thinking about 20GBP walkup, but then how much can they discount to make the ST attractive as 15GBP for ST will be too low
4) So they probably cannot go below 20GBP even for ST holders, but then how many people will buy a ST (probably 50 max)
5) They know all the signings they are making are not going to enthuse people to come running for Season tickets
6) So they hold off the annoucment as they need to charge 20 at least, but need more people to buy at 20, so wait and hope some act of god happens to change the dilemma they have

Writing this post made me think (although getting into QNON territory here)

It could be that the 200K rent is based on playing in the Championship (I remember reading somewhere that it would be 500K if we in SL), so if we are in L1 would that mean contractually we would not have to pay 200K a year... It does make you think