Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:12 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

If it is true, that IMG are not changing any of their objective scoring criteria, then how on earth can Broncos earn enough points to finish high enough to remain in SL even if they won the comp. Something that was mooted by Steve Mascord yesterday I believe.

There's a lot of opinions and conjecture out there about the gradings and where London may or may not be. We may well struggle to acrue enough points to stay in SL in 2025 as it stands, but there's a long time between now and then. Let's see how it plays out and where IMG/RFL go with things. I wouldn't be counting anything in or out.

Even if we don't make the grade for 2025, we would theoretically be a high scoring Category B club for 2026.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:59 pm  

With illustrative ratings to be published soon we will have an idea where we are but perhaps with little opportunity to change things. We should gain a B rating but I doubt we would be ranked among the top 12 A and B ranked teams.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:00 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

Even if we don't make the grade for 2025, we would theoretically be a high scoring Category B club for 2026.

In which areas do you see us significantly changing our ranking over the next couple of years ?

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 8:02 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

In which areas do you see us significantly changing our ranking over the next couple of years ?

I think we would be close to scoring maximum points for performance given this season.

I see engagement increasing too. Already noticed the social media feeds with an uptick this week.

Might be my complete misreading of course. I guess we'll have a good idea when the indicative grades emerge.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 8:55 pm  

Despite a Challenge Cup win, a fifth place finish and revolutionising matchday experience last season, to this noggin's reading Leigh will get a B grading. IMG weren't brought in to help the likes of us. Will leave the rest unsaid! Let's see!

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 8:59 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

There's a lot of opinions and conjecture out there about the gradings and where London may or may not be. We may well struggle to acrue enough points to stay in SL in 2025 as it stands, but there's a long time between now and then. Let's see how it plays out and where IMG/RFL go with things. I wouldn't be counting anything in or out.

Even if we don't make the grade for 2025, we would theoretically be a high scoring Category B club for 2026.

From what I can see we are in strife although to say it would be a bad look if we got kicked out having preformed reasonably well, perhaps not even finished last, would be an understatement. Having said that the rules are there and they can’t work round them without any club who suffers taking legal action. To put it another way it looks bleak. However first things first: recruitment and retention. In recent interview on hybrid working as well as rightly back8ng the team that got promoted by being flexible on FT and PT he mentioned a preference for getting back players who left to get FT action. I’m struggling to think who is still available. Rhys Williams perhaps. Not RIchards who has signed for TO and Battye’s departure was messy. Pitts must want to stay with his home town team and Hankinson is with TO for another year. Would we take back Jones? Or Silva?

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:01 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Despite a Challenge Cup win, a fifth place finish and revolutionising matchday experience last season, to this noggin's reading Leigh will get a B grading. IMG weren't brought in to help the likes of us. Will leave the rest unsaid! Let's see!

Not sure anyone knows what IMG are up to. Do they really have any clout? I’m beginning to think not. What they do with L1 will be interesting.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:12 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

I think we would be close to scoring maximum points for performance given this season.

Teams are ranked 1–36 based on where they finish in the leagues and playoffs for the last three seasons. So no chance of maximum points, we'll get something like 2.5 out of 4 points.

Knocker_White wrote:

I see engagement increasing too. Already noticed the social media feeds with an uptick this week.

We're probably currently around the 3rd tier of scoring on the digital criteria. If we could more than double our following and engagement it might get us an extra 0.3 points or so.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:19 am  

BigTime wrote:

However first things first: recruitment and retention. In recent interview on hybrid working as well as rightly back8ng the team that got promoted by being flexible on FT and PT he mentioned a preference for getting back players who left to get FT action. I’m struggling to think who is still available. Rhys Williams perhaps. Not RIchards who has signed for TO and Battye’s departure was messy. Pitts must want to stay with his home town team and Hankinson is with TO for another year. Would we take back Jones? Or Silva?

Yeah I wasn't quite sure who Mike was alluding to when he said that. Rhys is a free agent and might be interested in a year long deal, probably wouldn't cost us a huge amount in terms of a contract.
I liked Richards when he played for us, but he always seemed to be injured. Battye I think is all but signed up for Sheffield and I'm not sure Pitts would really bring us anything we don't already have. I certainly wouldn't want to see him signed at the expense of Natoli or Waine being extended if it came down to that.

I'd like to see Silva return, I thought he really added something when he came back as did Jones. Hopefully our new status makes us a more attractive proposition for our dual-reg partner.
Matt Davis not getting much of a look in at Leigh, maybe an option to bring him back in for the season and would certainly add something.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:03 pm  

As it stands I’d fancy you have more chance of staying in SL than Castleford, they have done nothing since the last time we had licensing