2 weeks since anything added to the website and to be honest most have recently been re-signings.

October, November, December and January are to me the months when the BACK OFFICE needs to be doing all the hard yards, so that come the season they are prepared. I wonder when we will discover if we have a new kit/kit supplier, sponsor, season ticket pricing, any "events" planned for next year etc...or is the Hockey season still in full swing?

Waiting for IMG to ring you isn't a plan BTW!

Hockey season started late Sept Orange so no joy there I’m afraid.
I assumed those responsible for social media were on leave. Better now than during the season I say which seemed to be the case early doors last season. In any event Skolars have kindly announced one of our primo new signings for the 23 season! Saving us the job. Happy days. I do hope they can push on getting sponsors it’s an important revenue stream and last few seasons seem to have made the job more difficult so if they some momentum there that would be impressive. As to ST....that will be genuinely interesting to see what they do.

It's probably as good a plan as they had last year though.

The club have now announced the signing describing him as a promising 30 year old

Let's hope he spent plenty of time playing rugby on the Gold Coast. This signing is a bit reminiscent of the 80s when all sorts of unheard of Aussies found their way to the club after the odd amateur game.

Can't find any record of his career down under.

In fairness it’s highly rated rather than promising. Like me you will no doubt recall that phrase used for quite a number of our L1 pick ups last year and I think many on this forum came to the conclusion that the person/people doing the rating were xxxxs. Anyway he’s here now, so assuming he plays let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and see if he can push us up the table. In which case it’s a master stroke. If not, another desperate signing.
I stand corrected Buzza it’s in the title. Wow that’s beyond parody.

Oh dear that's not too encouraging for a 30 year old.

Just seen the huddersfield 2023 kit. Not often I'm tempted by a "foreign" team shirt, but I am very taken with it. Would love to see London do something similar....

If we're looking at the same shirt, it's OK nothing wonderful. But as I've said many a time in fact almost as many times as you & your marketing, chevrons are outdated.

Re the thread title Orange with 6 days until pre-season it’s looking like the answer is No. That’s the way to sell those STs!

Looks like the squad starting pre season is not going to be that much different to last seasons. Did we have any on loan that we will lose ?

Only Ferreira from Hull and he’s thanked us and returned and Davis who has signed a one year with us.
So we have Stock in, Foster out. A 30 year old recruit from Skolars in and 38 year old Thurman (totally unclear what his status was) out. One assumes not all of the Skolars we had were on two year contracts so one assumes some of those will return to L1. Even so it’s a thin, inexperienced squad when you get past the first 13. Website says they are working hard so we will see. So far.....hmmm.

Did the supposed 2 assistants to Cake ever get announced ?

Nope. It feels like the social media/ website have begun to ramp up posts so I suspect we’ll hear soon.

Anti recruitment that will get the STs flowing. Gahan to TO.
I note HTH comment on Twitter that he’s buzzing to see who we’ll sign to replace from Skolars. Gallows humour alive and well. Ho hum!

It is depressing, to say the least.
we've not recruited well enough or in enough numbers
we've not appointed the assistants that were announced month ago
we've not sorted a shop out
we've not sorted a kit supplier out
we've announced a membership scheme that offer little incentive to anyone other than those 100 or so who probably would have bough a full season ticket anyway
we've continued to charge for Kids. Kids should be free with an adult.
our website is still run by the gimps at latch & sparrow after 3 years of sheer farce and when a chunk of their fee could pay an office member who could do what they do in minutes daily


our website has 2 academy stories, 2 women's stories and apparently, or fitness and conditioning background Head coach is excited about pre-season.....go figure



It's sadly expected, but the club just shuts down for 4 or 5 months a year. How are we supposed to become part of the community when we're not their in Autumn and at the start of Winter and then kicked out again in Late spring and Summer?

And still not confirmation as to when and for how long we will be denied access to the home ground Hughes pays for?

Sometimes you just have to trust the club knows what it’s doing on the recruitment front. The difficulty is that the club made such a horse’s rear of recruitment last year that trust is hard to come by and our ‘light touch’ and late approach to recruitment in the face of everyone else wrapping up their business by now is a legitimate concern. I’d like to be able to see more than a handful of competitive games next season so I hope we have a plan. It’s difficult to see where the wins come from. Much will depend I think on when we play teams like Widnes and Sheffield at home. Both good on their day but prone to off days. Could be another difficult season as is.

The club seem to think the core of the players who played a few decent games last season are the answer. We will be in the second year or a three year period where Hughes set a target of 5,000 fans. The recruitment policy is fundamentally incompatable with this target.

Today's newsletter confirms Errea as new kit and clothing partner. This has got to be a step forward from a rag and bonehead.

We've had them before through a middle man this sounds like we will be the middle man for others. IIRC shirts bit on small size.

That’s the way I’m reading it as well. What a life!

Kits sorted first then team. Not the typical way to do things but there we are. I’m sure they’ll be fine. Our performances next season- that is still to be seen. Not an easy league this. No obvious mugs in it. Hope we don’t turn out to be the mugs. By that I mean the team, the debate on whether supporters, including myself are mugs is, I fear, done and dusted. Sigh.

Well with luck that should put an end to the blue & yellow rags of last season.

I see you don’t subscribe to the same squad, same shirt theory!