2 games in and it looks like Toulouse and Featherstone will be in the mix for promotion whilst there's a group of about 8 sides who look like they can beat each other on the day, including dare I say, us!

If we're serious about making strides towards SL on the field, then games like this one need to be closer than last years nilling at the Shay. IIRC, fax were only beaten 3 times at home last season and will be confident of winning, but can we upset them?

Anyone going up?

Will be interesting to see how Fax come out for it. They looked pretty poor against Fev so will no doubt want to prove a point.

And now Henry Raiwalui slips quietly out of the Friday 21-man squad. Replaced by the previously injured Dalton Grant. Grant is probably not yet fit, but I doubt we will find out either way as he's unlikely to make the match day 17.

Think they are carrying some injuries so we could get a result. Most likely a home win though as they have been pretty consistent over last few years. Hopefully we put a decent patch of form together and can the. Build on that in home game against Sheffield.

Odd and also that we are reliant on three really late in the day loanees. The PNG signing, William, still hasn’t come over one assumes.
I hear what Eccles has said about “culture” etc but I can’t help but feel this is a sub-optimal approach. If preseason means anything the surely you want to bed players in preseason.
On the plus side the squad does look pretty settled. Now whether that is settled and strong or just stronger (than last year) for being settled I don’t know. My gut is the latter but how far up the table that gets us is not clear ...which makes it more exciting than last year for sure when it was pretty obvious we had gone down the wrong road.

Another loss unfortunately.

Thought we were going to get pasted when Fax got 24-6 ahead.
Wasn’t at the game but presumably we showed a bit of fight/ created and took a couple of chances late on ?

Points difference could be important so good we had enough about us to have clawed a few tries back. Bit worried Swinton picking up wins early doors was hoping they might be one who finish below us. Seems they haven’t read the script. Noticed also a few have got dual reg arrangements going on which will help them when the get thin on numbers. More difficult for us.

Scoreline was closer than last year, so that's a plus. I hope we can hang on to the wigan youngsters and maybe add a few more, because looking at our squad, we are really light on numbers.
On the Eccles and "right culture" comments....sigh.....what were the club actually doing in October, November, December and January? I take it that some staff continued to be paid, but what for? We've recruited very few, didn't get the new coaches, have struggled to find a proper sponsor and the only "achievement' appears to be buying 2 new horse costumes and switching stands.

Only seen highlights on twitter. Couple of observations, macani has very little clue on what his position is when defending, 2 tries due to him being in the wrong place, same against Batley.
The runaway try, at least we didn't give up on the chase, ironically think it was macani.
Worry about next week

Only seen highlights on twitter. Couple of observations, macani has very little clue on what his position is when defending, 2 tries due to him being in the wrong place, same against Batley.
The runaway try, at least we didn't give up on the chase, ironically think it was macani.
Worry about next week

Get the feeling that a lot of opposition match planning goes into targeting his side. He does seem to shoot out of the line an awful lot. His carries coming out of yardage are often a bit hair-raising too. Needs to take a look at how Ulberg carries and accept you sometimes need to go direct, as opposed to just trying to run around the defensive line every time.
That being said I think he is generally a decent finisher and he does give us some much needed pace out wide.

Not denying his attacking abilities, he is a handful, yep sometimes takes wrong option instead of just going forward

Does feel like the foot was off the gas during the off season. Or possibly all energy diverted to ensure an inflatable available for fan zone. Could have gone worse, could have gone down same route as Brian Potter at the Phoenix Club Family Fun day. That would have knocked Westerman off the front pages.

Timely reminder on switching stands -must remember to bring sunglasses.

But But your a berry Jerry

London look like finishing in the bottom half of the table this year, since going part time. London does produce just about enough quality players to form a full-time squad and press for promotion again, with a few imports. But the best get made better offers by bigger clubs in the North, or they stay South and sign for RU clubs, especially the backs. The latter is particularly chawsing. The future of RL in London requires a Super League team, and if that is going to generate the revenue required to sustain it and maintain a full time squad, a suitable location, easily reached from all over Greater London. Plough Lane isn't brilliant from that point of view, but certainly better than Ealing. London needs to be able to match the offers to talented young players which RU can make, as well as those of Leeds, Saints, etc. Not only is more revenue required for that, but an adjustment in the salary cap to allow for the greater cost of living, and especially housing, in London.[urlhttps://classicgolfclub.net/which-golf-clubs-should-i-buy/[/url

It appears to me Hughes has adopted a holding position in recent seasons investing as little as possible pending the IMG restructure. With the benefit of hindsight and given the grading system he may be wishing he had done more. The only future is without him.

Anyone who thinks plough lane is easier to get to than Ealing, The Stoop or Brentford really doesn't know how to use public transport in London.
West London, which is pretty much where those three grounds are is where a huge chunk of our base used to come from and we should move back to Ealing at the end of this year with the intent to help them with the redevelopment of the ground to a 10k stadium
As for Hughes. If he's serious about "staying" he needs to employ a professional CEO, give him shares as part of his package and concentrate on growing the fan base, because at present he has a tin pot accountant who basically can't find his arris with either hand.

I notice in the Confirmation Statement posted by London Rugby League Ltd on 25-Jan-23 all the shares in the club are now in the name of Jack Hughes.