Re: Tonight v cas : Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:07 pm  

itsmeagain wrote:

And you would know because ?????

Because it is common sense. Already been proved in another post, Castleford managed it. Always a pointless question when someone asks "who is available then". There may be a few names people can guess at but in reality no one knows who is available behind the scenes. I would bet that if London went out looking for a HB, they would find one. The problem, in my view is money.

My own view is

What should have happened this season - Hughes digs a little deeper into his pocket, funds a few more SL quality players in the squad. The aim, to help the club establish itself in SL for a couple season, get some stability. continue growing our own players and bringing them through. Off the pitch, we market the hell out of ourselves. make sure the world and his wife know about us. Over those couple of seasons, try and grow the crowd base.

Whats seems to be happening - We have an underpowered, short of depth squad. Ward saying he is happy, I suspect he cant really say much else. If you offered him a decent HB and some big forwards, I think he would snap your arm off. The club gets relegated. We lose a couple of promising youngsters (like we did recently with Bieniek and Davis). We continue being a production line for SL clubs, rather than being one for a London SL club. We rebuild the squad again and then try to come top 5 in the Champ next season. Momentum is lost and we go back to playing in front of 7-800 again. The "marketing and Promotion this season has still been pretty poor. Relying on on hundreds of away fans is not really a great long term plan to build the attendence. People will not flood back to watch a team getting beat most weeks.

Re: Tonight v cas : Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:18 pm  

Maybe he thinks Salford will fold and we will stay up.

They were asking for money form the RFL upfront before a ball was kicked.

Re: Tonight v cas : Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:44 pm  

wantawin wrote:

Can you tell me who was available to sign as a halfback when Sammut said he was not staying with London. Most of the good players had been signed by the time we won the million pound.

As Honklytonk says 'someone is always available' - either here or in the NRL. As another poster stated there was the lad Cas acquired when their first choice was crocked.
Hughes, or whoever it is that is supposed to scout for players, doesn't look very hard if you ask me.

Re: Tonight v cas : Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:40 pm  

RfE wrote:

As Honklytonk says 'someone is always available' - either here or in the NRL. As another poster stated there was the lad Cas acquired when their first choice was crocked.
Hughes, or whoever it is that is supposed to scout for players, doesn't look very hard if you ask me.

Perhaps he does not want to spend any more of his own money on the club

Re: Tonight v cas : Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:12 pm  

wantawin wrote:

Perhaps he does not want to spend any more of his own money on the club

Maybe so - but did he not want us to get into SL. And stay there?

Makes me think of 'Withnail and I' - (paraphrasing slightly) 'We've been promoted......by accident!'

Re: Tonight v cas : Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:05 pm  

RfE, I must admit, I do wonder

Re: Tonight v cas : Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:58 pm  

Adam Tangata has been released it seems. Issued a come and get me plea on Twitter to any club. Worth looking at maybe

Inu and Albert also gone

Re: Tonight v cas : Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:09 pm  

yes please

Re: Tonight v cas : Sun Mar 03, 2019 1:47 pm  

Tangata could do a job for us.
Inu have always liked the way he plays, has he gone elsewhere already..
Widnes need to cut there cloth in order to survive the drop from championship but knowing they are not going to be in the promotion slot.