It's strange and bit concerning that we appear to be getting overlooked. On current evidence I'm not sure how reliant upon Wigan we can be, if we suddenly find ourselves in need of some emergency cover, as will no doubt happen at some point. Silva and Hill aside, the majority of the players Wigan look to have available are outside backs and hookers/half backs, not positions that we are really in great need of currently. I would be happy if we were able to keep Silva for the remainder of the season as you say. I doubt we will see much more of Miski now that Jai Field is out for a couple of months and he's played well for them when called upon.

I wonder how much geography is playing into some of the decision making and whether we have the same issue in attracting DR players as we do permanent signings from up north i.e. are players willing to take themselves away from home to come down for a part time spell and how attractive a proposition are we making it? If we can't offer a full time environment, then what else do we really have?

To all intents and purposes this season looks like a bit of a write off off field wise. It’s not easy to see quite where they can have a push to get interest going again. I wonder if they should make efforts to advertise the July2 game against Newcastle together with some work on the ground in the immediate environs of PL. if I’m right Football will not have started yet, the schools/scouts etc will still be on and available for free tickets and holiday season not started. Maybe that is the opportunity to make some noise. On the plus side there is a game at home the next week to gather momentum. On the negative it’s Toulouse and on a Saturday breaking the Sunday afternoon slot vibe. Neither side will bring many supporters with them but if we don’t make a push then there is only realistically the run of 3 home games in Sept to grow an audience and encourage sponsors of the value of supporting the team although I would have thought late in the season is a bad time to advertise the club.

It seems obvious from the squads assembled that Hughes has written off all the seasons leading upto the IMG restucturing. By showing no ambition to get promoted on the field Hughes shows contempt for longstanding fans and limits the ability to attract new ones. London needs a competitive side to stand any chance of growing the fan base.

Newcastle and Toulouse will be played at Ebbsfleet as Plough Lane doesn't appear to have been made available to the Broncos in the first half of July.

There is a (final?) opportunity to get momentum at Plough Lane. A nine weeks period as follows:
- =#FF000030th July - York
- 6th August - Away
- 12th August - Wembley Final ! (it is realistically possible)
- =#FF000020th August - Halifax
- =#FF000027th August - Whitehaven
- 3rd September - Away
- =#FF000010th September - Widnes
- =#FF000017th September - Bradford
- =#FF000024th September - Keighley

6 matches in 9 weeks. A good set of opposition, no obvious stuffings. Two or three teams with good away followings. Nice time of year weather wise. A mix of school holiday and term time.

The club moves to PL, goes part time and puts out the weakest Broncos team I have seen and suffer a series of defeats.
Their stated aim of growing the crowd to 5K was and is a delusion. As jbuzza says, to grow the fan base, the club needs a very competitive team and also, proper promotion. hell, they cannot even do decent Social Media at the moment.
It is a sad state of affairs. With very little possibility as I see it, of it ever improving.

Ah yes I had forgotten we are off to Kent. It seems to me then that the gap between York game and the rest is a bit too big unless we get to Wembley. If we do they summon what resources they have and really push. If not Halifax is the game to target - they will bring fans especially if we liaise the and explain where people can park etc. It is however a difficult game. If we mess it up we are back to zero again.

Interesting contrast between our two PNG internationals against Fev. I thought Emmanuel ran his blood to water and for a big bloke he certainly got battered around. Came up with some errors, but mostly from trying hard to impact the game, so I can accept that. Came off injured at the end so fingers crossed nothing serious, as we need his presence.

Wellington on the other hand, I'm not sure we have really seen the best of so far this season. For somebody whose strength is supposed to be his offloading, he's making some really poor decisions. I wouldn't say he is even our most impactful forward at the minute either, Marcus, Jordan and Lewis are all playing more consistently.

A bit unfair to single him out perhaps and there were plenty who made errors yesterday, but as one of our overseas signings and I assume one of our bigger earners, he needs to have more impact. Not sure I would look to extend him and he seems to have maybe mentally ticked the 'heading back down under' box.

Yes I agree. I had thought it was henry that picked up a knock but agreed Wayne worked hard. I’m not sure Albert is doing big minutes and when he is on I’m not sure he’s pulling up trees either. Some one was making some pretty dodgy offload decision, not sure who it was Albert or Waine. The problem is we are a bit one dimensional so I wouldn’t want to discourage the practice but the execution needs to be better. We coughed up too much ball. And the there was our ‘attempts’ to stop the long distance second try. Very poor that.

Whilst our Elite 1 recruitment wasn't necessarily the most successful last season, possibly still a cheap and easy way of bolstering our squad once players become available at the end of May. I doubt any of those named, outside the Catalans players, will be in with a shout of a Super League deal. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/fr ... ague-moves

Whilst our Elite 1 recruitment wasn't necessarily the most successful last season, possibly still a cheap and easy way of bolstering our squad once players become available at the end of May. I doubt any of those named, outside the Catalans players, will be in with a shout of a Super League deal. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/fr ... ague-moves

Quote ="Knocker_White"Whilst our Elite 1 recruitment wasn't necessarily the most successful last season, possibly still a cheap and easy way of bolstering our squad once players become available at the end of May. I doubt any of those named, outside the Catalans players, will be in with a shout of a Super League deal. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/fr ... ague-moves'" Would make sense and fit with our anyone but from the North policy. However, I suspect we may just not bother. Remember we have to find a new ground and one thing at a time is the way we like to do things. Let’s leave recruitment to one minute before next season starts.

Quote ="Knocker_White"Whilst our Elite 1 recruitment wasn't necessarily the most successful last season, possibly still a cheap and easy way of bolstering our squad once players become available at the end of May. I doubt any of those named, outside the Catalans players, will be in with a shout of a Super League deal. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/fr ... ague-moves'" Would make sense and fit with our anyone but from the North policy. However, I suspect we may just not bother. Remember we have to find a new ground and one thing at a time is the way we like to do things. Let’s leave recruitment to one minute before next season starts.

Just seen pics of Jacob Jones training with Widnes on their social media. Appears to be another one we have been unable to keep in the squad for longer

Not many careers where offered a job in Widnes or in London you’d go for the former. Not sure what this says about him, us or RL in general. Only know this is shaping up to be a season of modest improvement. Really modest improvement.
In absolute fairness, if Leigh stay up, which looks likely, he may be moving on. In which case he’ll want to be in the shop window. He’s probably the type of player we should sign up but if the deal isn’t right or PT work is more plentiful in mid table Widnes or he is half way through a degree at a Lancs based college, then it makes some sense to avoid bottom third of table London. Happy days. When is the next World Cup? I hear it’s a great opportunity to sign up players!?!!!

Plenty of loan action going on, Broncos aside. Not sure about this one Championship side loaning players to another one for a short spell- eg Ellis from York to Swinton for a month.

I’m calling it. Our much vaunted DR with Wigan was a euphemism for saying we had Silva on loan for the season.

I did hear a rumour that Cake/Lobster were trying to agree a DR with Acton & Willesden & Streatham & Mitcham. Trouble is they are having problems with finding someone to deal with.

Swinton and Bulls appear to be hitting the DR button real hard. I’m torn on it as on one side we are clearly missing out, on the other parachuting people in for 2-4 weeks is disrespectful to the players you have and makes a nonsense of all that old pony about team culture. I suspect that if all our players are off contract at end of season we would struggle to get anyone signed permanently for half a season so we may not be seeing many new faces.

DR or Loan's, call it what you will is getting a lil out of hand (apart from us). They really need to introduce some regulation on this. Maybe a maximum number of loans per season or something. Who will be the first club to have no players but complete a season using purely DR/Loan players?

Dean Whare has just signed. Didn't see that one coming. It's fair to say he seems to be winding down his career, he is signing from Pia, but could be a good person to have around the youngsters. https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/05/17/ ... r-broncos/

Dean Whare has just signed. Didn't see that one coming. It's fair to say he seems to be winding down his career, he is signing from Pia, but could be a good person to have around the youngsters. https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/05/17/ ... r-broncos/

Quote ="Halfdan of t'wide embrace"Dean Whare has just signed. Didn't see that one coming. It's fair to say he seems to be winding down his career, he is signing from Pia, but could be a good person to have around the youngsters. https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/05/17/ ... r-broncos/'" Let's hope he's not come for a holiday.

Quote ="Halfdan of t'wide embrace"Dean Whare has just signed. Didn't see that one coming. It's fair to say he seems to be winding down his career, he is signing from Pia, but could be a good person to have around the youngsters. https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/05/17/ ... r-broncos/'" Let's hope he's not come for a holiday.

Sadly not a goal kicking centre. Coming from Pia Donkeys he will be right at home with the Broncos way of doing things.

Not a bad player at all, didn't set the world on fire at catalans but got the experience,interesting to see has has decided to come to UK and step down a level.
Hope he can make a difference to Illessi Mc positioning on the wing

We haven’t signed enough this year but, fair’s fair what we have signed has been good so I’m hopeful he hasn’t come only for the sightseeing. Out of interest who does he replace?

He's come from Baroudeurs de Pia.

Strange how a club goes from being Adventurers of Pia to Pia Donkeys, but I suppose that's the French for you.

It's a signing. Be happy (or at least relatively less unhappy).