My maths is rubbish but I think we’ve announced 16 players. Of those 2 are senior pros who’ve been retained and 2 from SL/Championship. The rest were signed to aL1 club when they last played in UK (7) I think or young players who’ve stepped up but who in many cases have played as much in L1 last season as Championship. And to add to concerns many have plied their trade at the bottom end of L1. I’d definitely not focus on that if I was in charge of ST sales.
I’m going out on a limb here I think with a fair wind we may get past Sheffield, Dewsbury and 1, possibly 2, of the Cumbrian clubs. I know, I know overly positive but stranger things have happened.

Thoroughly underwhelmed by these signings. I'm not sure of the logic behind basically becoming the London Skolars in everything except name?
In the last 3 playing seasons they have won 13 games from 56 starts.....this year they beat west Wales twice and Coventry....losing 14 and drawing 1.
To the untrained eye, it really does look like we are preparing for a relegation dog fight with no intention of challenging for honours in 2022 and how 6ou polish that turd for the new audience at Plough Lane is a mystery.
I can only assume 5hat Hughes is heading for the exit and we are cutting our cloth accordingly....but again, why spend.money on a SL standard ground if you've no intention of getting to superleague? We got lucky with Henderson and then Ward......remember Powell and Grima if you think Hughes as adept at finding good managers, but I'm at a loss as to what is going through his head at the moment when he's looking to write cheques for a season where survival will be a relief.
Still no word on plough lane though ...3 weeks after we were told it would take no more than 2

Maybe they are waiting for Mustard to complete his squad, but the lack of drum beating by Hughes, Lobster or Monkey is deafening with only a couple of weeks before training starts. They must have some idea of how they see 2022 paning out even if they are incapable of putting a coherent plan in place.

Of course PL for RL could be "THE" covid sport. If you believe in social distancing then get down to PL where each fan can have their own block of seats or maybe even their own stand.

I'm still 50/50 if they will play at PL next year. I don't think DH heart is in it anymore,and he is going to be paying the whole 200K out of his back pocket, as LB will make no revenue on match days.

They will probably open only 1 stand at PL at most, of which the majority of fans will be from the away side, who have come for a great day out, visit London, take in the rugby during the day, see your team win by 60, then get tube into London for a few beers before train home.

Saying that price of a pint in London is more than some folks weekly wage, so its possible that the London visit would be teetotal

Hughes (as well as the hired help) don't give a toss about the fans. It's been obvious for close to a decade now that it's "HIS" Team and "HIS" to do as he wants, bt in reality, whilst he's happily flushed his own millions down the drain, he's also flush a comparable amount of central funding.

30 million of "OUR" money to go with his own, all down the shi77er......I wonder if anyone showed him the video of him bigging up Trailfinders would find themselves on Monkeyboys hitlist....because only a few years ago, it was PERFECT

I'm with you on this. The silence since the green light was given points to somebody finally doing some simple mathematics and figuring out that Rosslyn Park may well suffice as "home" for 2022....it holds 2,000, a number we have never hit in the 2nd tier and not often in the last SL season, so we'd be fine for the travelling Cumbrian hordes.

I played there (30 years ago) and it was always a cracking club to visit and given they're in the 3rd tier of Union, they're getting 500+ to games and I'd hazard a guess we'd get more of them to games than we will dons fans.

Young fella in from Hull a more traditional route to success. No L1 experience as far as I know but looks promising.

Jude Ferreira Centre, on a full season loan.

An out rather than an in....... https://www.giantsrl.com/article/7864/g ... of-academy

An out rather than an in....... https://www.giantsrl.com/article/7864/g ... of-academy

Quote ="RfE"An out rather than an in....... https://www.giantsrl.com/article/7864/g ... of-academy'" Like I said a while back I thought his race was run. That s a very good gig for him. Let’s hope we now belatedly wish him all the best. He also got married recently. It would have been a nice touch to congratulate him and wish him all the best at that stage but better late than never.

Quote ="RfE"An out rather than an in....... https://www.giantsrl.com/article/7864/g ... of-academy'" Like I said a while back I thought his race was run. That s a very good gig for him. Let’s hope we now belatedly wish him all the best. He also got married recently. It would have been a nice touch to congratulate him and wish him all the best at that stage but better late than never.

Might also be a good weigh point to offer some clarity to fans on what exactly our back room staff situation/ make-up is.

You may be waiting a while for that as Orange keeps saying, fans not important to the Menagerie.

Yep, and let's not forget that at the start of last season we had 2 former GB internationals as coach and assistant.

But now we have an international coach

Yep and with L1 playing experience.

Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/

Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/

Can we afford to pay an injury prone Sammutt now (I'd have him in a heartbeat) but if cash is sp for the playing side, I wonder.

No news on Walters, Hindmarsh, Egodo, Verala William's??

Quote ="Torbreck"Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/'" Quote ="Honkytonk"Can we afford to pay an injury prone Sammutt now (I'd have him in a heartbeat) but if cash is sp for the playing side, I wonder. '" I'd reckon Sammut on one leg would still be better than most in the 2nd tier. I can't see us being able to ever attract a player of his quality again unless we find a new funding source, but what's more annoying is the lack of activity from the RFL to protect those clubs in the lower divisions from losing their academy prospects for no fiscal return. Given the Lobsters trade is financials, let's hope that academy players are locked into the club with release clauses for those that want to head north costing a few thousand. The RFL can't simply cut the throats of the lower tiers at the bequest of the big boys and then offer us no protection from being scalped too.... ...has anyone compiled a list of London trained players now plying their trade in the north? Kai Pearce-Paul is a prime example....nicked by Wigan and now Lenagan is whining about the cost of keeping him. His younger brother is at Salarysins apparently....let's hope the game sees the bigger picture or we risk our best going north or worse, to the dark side.

Quote ="Torbreck"Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/'" Quote ="Honkytonk"Can we afford to pay an injury prone Sammutt now (I'd have him in a heartbeat) but if cash is sp for the playing side, I wonder. '" I'd reckon Sammut on one leg would still be better than most in the 2nd tier. I can't see us being able to ever attract a player of his quality again unless we find a new funding source, but what's more annoying is the lack of activity from the RFL to protect those clubs in the lower divisions from losing their academy prospects for no fiscal return. Given the Lobsters trade is financials, let's hope that academy players are locked into the club with release clauses for those that want to head north costing a few thousand. The RFL can't simply cut the throats of the lower tiers at the bequest of the big boys and then offer us no protection from being scalped too.... ...has anyone compiled a list of London trained players now plying their trade in the north? Kai Pearce-Paul is a prime example....nicked by Wigan and now Lenagan is whining about the cost of keeping him. His younger brother is at Salarysins apparently....let's hope the game sees the bigger picture or we risk our best going north or worse, to the dark side.

In other news, Whitehaven seem to have no issue with announcing antipodean signings, with the Dolphins half Alex Bishop announced.......have to say, struggling with why anyone would choose cumbria over London other than if they were a hill-walker?

Perhaps they have received a postcard from the Lake District and believe they are bound for the Lakes. Going to be some disappointment there, I would say.

Has Bishop got an HGV licence?

Quote ="Torbreck"Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/'" He dismissed this article on Instagram.

Quote ="Torbreck"Give me strength, even Sammut wasn't offered a new contract when available.... https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/jarrod-s ... ove-45185/'" He dismissed this article on Instagram.

https://mcusercontent.com/a10a5bab5ba1d ... 988274.jpg Will RAMSEY - our latest Aussie signing on a one year deal. Has he got L1 experience?

https://mcusercontent.com/a10a5bab5ba1d ... 988274.jpg Will RAMSEY - our latest Aussie signing on a one year deal. Has he got L1 experience?

You betcha! And can you guess which non London team it might be?

I note pre season has started. I hardly recognise anyone in the photo but I don’t think I see Walters or Ogodo or Hindmarsh. Then again I don’t know who the presenter is showing the squad a load of trophies. Hopefully he’s not saying “have a good look at this. This is what the winners of L1 get. Next year boys.Its our year”