Never believe what Offiah has to say since he often cocks up on sky sports and is a joke. He is away with the fairies and should be banned.

Offiah is a joke. He can't string two sentances together. He should be eternally grateful to London for lining his pockets as a player at the end of his career and now as players manager. Where else does he look for players to 'manage', London is full of young players who will break through over the next few years and he will be there begging and poaching.

Offiah will only say what suits HIM.
He has an agenda, it isn't hidden either...he wants to profit from the production line built and paid for by David Hughes...he is a carpetbagger and I believe the club should ban him from any contact with players under contract to Harlequins Rugby League at any age grade.

Please get your facts right. This is nothing to do with us. Absolutely nothing.

Martin Offiah left us in the worst of circumstances, by refusing to play until we sold him. Ever since this his club has been Wigan, and he has even referred to Wigan as "us" when commentating in a BBC match against Widnes. There is still some animosity in both camps, and recently admitted he was surprised that he recieved a warm reception recently at Widnes. The fans might remember him for his skill and talent, and the success he had in his short time at the club, but he is not a Widnes man and would not care less about dropping you for us. As a southerner I suspect he would be against it. I'm surprised he has come out with this, and past experience tells me this is nothing to do with Widnes at all.

And don't describe Salford as "victims" either. They got their chance in super league, Widnes didn't. They have pitiful crowds and have not delivered on a stadium either.

Right lets get one thing straight! Martin Offiah is a Legend of the game and knows more about elite performance than the whole of this board and possibly even Quins!

It's quite amusing that when someone states what is quite obvious regarding the current position of the club they are shot down by your blinkered "we're developing something down here attitude".

The fact is the club is poorly run and seem to lack any strategy for bring in talent or fans to the ground. Quite frankly I've attended quins for some time but mostly find the quality on the pitch to be poor at best and so my decisions to attend are based more around who the opposition are.

With regards to other comments about players being in a good position to learn what is required through getting beat and demoralised each week this is frankly laughable. Success breeds sucess, failure breeds failure.

The assertion also that Quins is good for the game as a whole is quite unbeliveable, if anything in it's current format it's is an anchor around the neck of the RFL. How much coverage does Quins attract, it never seems to be awash with reporters from what I have observed. And do you even hold press conferences?

Dont get me wrong I'd like nothing more to see a sucessful London team but it's a long way off and based upon current form is seemingly going backwards!

See you at the GF by 2018 with a team full of cockneys.

could have fooled me.......
remember, a few years back Wigan only just stayed up.......by whatever means.....and now look at them.
Yes we need fans to pay the wages......but we wouldn't be in so bad a state if our owner hadn't bu99ered off to bail you lot out


As PP says...Old trafford 2018....see you there

Offiah has never given London a good shout and yet he hangs around our club like a bad smell.

The blokes a buffoon.

That tickled me.

Glad to have raised a titter

Such a shame given he is one personality of the recent modern game that London fans can probably relate to most of all.

No surprise who adorned most of the 1992 WC tube advertisements I spoke about elsewhere.

What's more of a shame is the point made in that article that he is still the most recognisable RL player to non-RL fans. Says much about the lack of marketing of our game in general.

I don't relate to Offiah at all. I think he's a liability for the sport as a whole. He was a great athlete, but a poor footballer. Dwain Chambers could have been just as good had he been captured at an earlier age.

The first SL match I saw was Broncos v Wigan at The Stoop in 1996 or 1997. The only two players in the Broncos side I'd heard of were Offiah and Shaun Edwards. I had no real knowledge of the sport. Edwards was brilliant, a genius footballer; Offiah was pathetic. In fact he was probably the poorest player on the field.

I also dislike the way Offiah seems to agitate our young players to leave our club in his capacity as an agent. He comes across as the archetypal "Mr Ten Percent" - an unwelcome parasite.

Should we ask Boris to set up an Offiah-free zone?

OK. Form your policy around the views of one person out of what 10 million...

As for Offiah not being a great player, you are kidding.

lol

As an Australian, we actually feared him - unlike Edwards who never had a decent game against Australia in his life. The greatest contribution Edwards ever made against Australia in Tests was getting sent off in 1994.

My point was not about Offiah's status as a player, that is not in doubt he was a world class athlete. The fact that he is the one recognizable rl player that lives in London is why Sky use him. My point is that someone with such a condescending attitude to the club, who has lined his pockets from the club in the past, is hardly fit to represent our best young players as their agent.

Offiah was a world class winger, only the ignorant that are influenced by his recent actions would dispute that. One of the best players I have seen playing Rugby League.

Possibly - it was a master-stroke. We never looked back that day.

Never met the man so won't comment on his personality....but on TV he comes across as an idiot. With regard to his antics as a players agent.......as I have said before, he just happpens to be in the right place at the right time....London's conveyer belt will start spitting out better players and he would seem to be the guy best placed to benefit. Shame really.....the club (David Hughes) should be getting some return on investment....LMS went for nothing which is a very worrying precedent IMO.

Good morning.

It's not a precedent. Contract terminates, player is free agent. Happens all the time. Club can protect itself by tie-ing players to long term contracts. Commercial decision.

Kia ora



It is a precedent when our tallisman cockney product, the first one capped for England from our accademy is allowed to go to a top 2 team for 2 tenths of bu99er all. LMS was an opportunity to promote cockney players.....playing a northern game. He is both talented and good in front of a camera......but apparently, as you have said, we couldn't afford him/or didn't want him.
Still say it's a precedent........even if only for Londons SL club

I agree it is unfortunate but that does not make it a precedent. Leaving the English lesson aside, maybe despite the club's best efforts LMS just chose to take the opportunity to play for a team who will challenge for trophies. Good luck to him.

If we are unable to pay the wages we will become a selling club like Wakey, it is basic economics. The question is will our conveyor belt become a milk cow or will we get some fodder too? I hope there are enough mixed metaphors there for the connoisseurs!